a simple question but Ive realised im not sure of the answer for this one….
If I am creating an android application with a library package named
com.example.one
and then i create another app and include another package with the name
com.example.one
which has a slightly refactored class, could this cause any problems in either of the apps?
The reason i ask is recently I had a problem with some google source code and it was down to the fact that a device manufactorer had included the same libs in the custom OS that I had used in my apk, and it was not happy! (or so i was told)
If anyone can fill me in here, as i obviosuly dont understand something quite findamental here 🙂
thankx
EDIT: a good link on the diff between Android and Java package names http://blog.javia.org/android-package-name/
Actually, it shouldn’t cause problems in the case of two separate Android apps. Android Apps run in Sandboxes, i.e. the Classloader of app A does not see any classes of app B and vice-versa.
This is obviously different for system wide-libraries. They are accessible by the classloader (of course) and will cause troubles if you have the same class in your app.