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Android Studio – Conflict between Class Name and Package Name in Java

In the context of the following code:

Package a;
public class c {
    // ...
}

Package d;
public class a {
    public class c {
        // ...
    }
}

When I use ‘a.c’ to declare and instantiate an object

a.c my_var = new a.c()

Android Studio is recognizing the class ‘c’ from package ‘d’. However, I intend to access the class ‘c’ from package ‘a’. How can I achieve this without needing to change the package names or class names?

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  1. 0

    You can achieve this by importing the class c from the package d into the package a. To do this, add the following import statement to the top of the class file in the package a

    import d.c;

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    Continuing from the comment, let’s consider a real world scenario (using a, c, d… can be tough and misleading):

    
package com.example.animals; // com/example/animals/Lion.java
public class Lion {
}


package com.example.zoo; // com/example/zoo/Zoo.java
public class Zoo {
    public class Lion {
    }
}

    If you want to create an instance of the Lion class from com;example.animals and there is a Lion class in com.example.zoo package, you can do something like:

    
com.example.zoo.Zoo.Lion zooLion = new com.example.zoo.Zoo().new Lion(); // This refers to the inner class Lion of class Zoo in package com.example.zoo

// To refer to the class Lion in package com.example.animals, use the fully qualified name
com.example.animals.Lion animalsLion = new com.example.animals.Lion();
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