Java tutorial
//package com.java2s; /* Copyright 2012-2013, Polyvi Inc. (http://polyvi.github.io/openxface) This program is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License. This file is part of xFace. xFace is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. xFace is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with xFace. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */ import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream; public class Main { public static byte[] hexDecode(String data) { if (null == data) { return null; } ByteArrayOutputStream out = new ByteArrayOutputStream(); for (int i = 0; i < data.length(); i += 2) { String onebyte = data.substring(i, i + 2); int b = Integer.parseInt(onebyte, 16) & 0xff; out.write(b); } return out.toByteArray(); } }