Question

I am a .Net developer starting Java development for Android and would like to know if it’s correct to think of Java packages like .Net assemblies.

Answer 1

No.

The best comparison would be with a Java ARchive (Jar) file. Java uses packages to control the namespace, and is very similar to C#’s Namespaces.

Here is how I’d compare the environments

Java                    .Net
====                    ====
Class                   Class
Package                 Namespace
Jar                     Assembly