Palindrome in java

Question

Here what I tried sample input is "aabaa"
eg: in if condition val[0] = a[4]
if it is equal i stored it in counter variable if it is half of the length it original string it is palindrome
if it is not it is not a palindrome

I tried with my basic knowledge in java if there is any errors let me know

boolean solution(String inputString) {
  int val = inputString.length();
  int count = 0;
  for (int i = 0; i<inputString.length(); i++) {
    if(inputString.charAt(i) == inputString.charAt(val-i)) {
       count = count++;
      if (count>0) {
        return true;
      }  
    }
  }
  return true;
}

Answer 1

How about

public boolean isPalindrome(String text) {
    String clean = text.replaceAll("\\s+", "").toLowerCase();
    int length = clean.length();
    int forward = 0;
    int backward = length - 1;
    while (backward > forward) {
        char forwardChar = clean.charAt(forward++);
        char backwardChar = clean.charAt(backward--);
        if (forwardChar != backwardChar)
            return false;
    }
    return true;
}

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