Question

Can anyone explain this piece of code i am sort of new to java

Class c = Class.forName(telephony.getClass().getName());
Method m = c.getDeclaredMethod("getITelephony");

Answer 1

This is called reflection. It is accessing classes, objects and methods at runtime rather than compile time. It is also not Android-specific.

“Java’s Reflection API’s makes it possible to inspect classes, interfaces, fields and methods at runtime, without knowing the names of the classes, methods etc. at compile time. It is also possible to instantiate new objects, invoke methods and get/set field values using reflection.”

http://tutorials.jenkov.com/java-reflection/index.html