leetcode

Balanced Binary Tree

Given a binary tree, determine if it is height-balanced.

For this problem, a height-balanced binary tree is defined as a binary tree in which the depth of the two subtrees of every node never differ by more than 1.

Check whether the height difference is less than one between left subtree and right subtree.

public boolean isBalanced(TreeNode root) {
        if (root==null) {
            return true;
        }

        int leftSubTreeHeight = getHeight(root.left);
        int rightSubTreeHeight = getHeight(root.right);

        //check if both leftSubTree and rightSubTree is balanced
        if (Math.abs(leftSubTreeHeight-rightSubTreeHeight)<=1 && isBalanced(root.left) && isBalanced(root.right)) {
            return true;
        }
        return false;
    }

    public int getHeight(TreeNode node) {
        if (node == null ){
            return 0;
        }
        return Math.max(getHeight(node.left), getHeight(node.right)) + 1;
    }