Valid Palindrome - LeetCode

Given a string, determine if it is a palindrome, considering only alphanumeric characters and ignoring cases.

For example,
"A man, a plan, a canal: Panama" is a palindrome.
"race a car" is not a palindrome.

Note:
Have you consider that the string might be empty? This is a good question to ask during an interview.

For the purpose of this problem, we define empty string as valid palindrome.

public class Solution {
    public boolean isPalindrome(String s) {
	        if(s == null)
	        	return true;
	        else if(s.length() == 0)
	        	return true;
	        else {
	        	char[] c = new char[s.length()];
	        	int index = 0;
	        	for(int i = 0; i < s.length(); i++){
	        		Character cc = s.charAt(i);
	        		if(Character.isLetter(cc) || Character.isDigit(cc)){
	        			if(Character.isLetter(cc))
	        				c[index] = Character.toLowerCase(cc);
	        			else
	        				c[index] = cc;
	        			index ++;
	        		}
	        	}//end of for
	        	for(int j = 0; j < index; j ++){
	        		if(j >= index - j){
	        			return true;
	        		}
	        		else{
	        			if(c[j] != c[index - j - 1])
	        			{
	        				return false;
	        			}
	        		}
	        	}
	        }
			return true;
    }
}