Matrix Search – find group of connected-1s/sectors in a matrix

find length of connected cells of 1s(sector) in an matrix of 0s and 1s?
find number of islands in a matrix?
find connected sectors of a matric?
implementation of flood fill algorithm?
All these questions are same, below are the implementation details

Full source code can be downloaded from here

Consider a two-dimensional grid of cells, each of which may be empty or filled. The filled cells that are connected form a sector. Two cells are said to be connected if they are adjacent to each other horizontally, vertically or diagonally. There may be several sectors on the grid. Your job is to find the largest sector (in terms of number of cells) on the grid.

The following figure illustrates a grid with 3 sectors (the largest contains 5 cells).

Problem
Write a program that determines the size of the largest sector for a given grid.

Input
The input begins with a single positive integer on a line by itself indicating the number of the cases
following, each of them as described below. This line is followed by a blank line, and there is also a blank
line between two consecutive inputs. The grid is given as a set of string, each composed of 0s and 1s.
The 1 indicates that the cell is filled and 0 indicates an empty cell. The strings should be converted into
the grid format. The largest grid that should be considered is a 25×25 grid.

Attached is the input file:
input.txt

Output
For each test case, the output must follow the description below. The outputs of two consecutive cases
will be separated by a blank line. The output is the size of the largest sector found on the grid.

Sample Input
2

11000
01100
00101
10001
01011

1011
1010

Sample Output
5
3

This solution is a recursion of depth of 8 levels :

int findMaxDepth(int[][] n, boolean[][] bool, int i, int j) {
	// Check if i, j (indexes) are within the size of array
	// Check if the cell is already traversed or not using bool array
	// Check if the cell value is 1 before counting it as part of a sector
	if(i >= 0 && i < n.length &&  				j >=0 && j < n[0].length
				&& bool[i][j] != true && n[i][j] != 0) {
		currentDepth++;

		// Mark the status of the cell for backtracking purpose
		bool[j] = true;

		// left traversal
		findMaxDepth(n, bool, i-1, j);
		// right traversal
		findMaxDepth(n, bool, i+1, j);

		// top traversal
		findMaxDepth(n, bool, i, j-1);
		// bottom traversal
		findMaxDepth(n, bool, i, j+1);

		// Top-Bottom diagnol
		// diagnol-down traversal
		findMaxDepth(n, bool, i+1, j+1);
		// diagnol-up traversal
		findMaxDepth(n, bool, i-1, j-1);

		// Bottom-Top diagnol
		// diagnol-down traversal
		findMaxDepth(n, bool, i+1, j-1);
		// diagnol-up traversal
		findMaxDepth(n, bool, i-1, j+1);
	}
	return currentDepth;
}

Full source code can be downloaded from here

Attaching the problem statement, input.txt.
counting_cell