To use the following examples you need to specify the dependency in your Maven config correctly.
To create an isochrone in Java code:
You'll first need to build off an existing Graphhopper instance for routing.
Next, compute the isochrone itself.
// get encoder from GraphHopper instance
EncodingManager encodingManager = hopper.getEncodingManager();
FlagEncoder encoder = encodingManager.getEncoder("car");
// pick the closest point on the graph to the query point and generate a query graph
QueryResult qr = hopper.getLocationIndex().findClosest(lat, lon, DefaultEdgeFilter.allEdges(encoder));
Graph graph = hopper.getGraphHopperStorage();
QueryGraph queryGraph = new QueryGraph(graph);
queryGraph.lookup(Collections.singletonList(qr));
// calculate isochrone from query graph
PMap pMap = new PMap();
Isochrone isochrone = new Isochrone(queryGraph, new FastestWeighting(carEncoder, pmap), false);
isochrone.setTimeLimit(60);
List<List<Double[]>> res = isochrone.searchGPS(qr.getClosestNode(), 1L);
The returned list will represent a point list. It can also be converted into a polygon.
See GraphHopper's servlet for more comprehensive construction of an isochrone.