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Asked: 2026-05-23T17:15:45+00:00

I have a parent class in Android that inherits from Activity and all my

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I have a parent class in Android that inherits from Activity and all my other activities inherit from that parent class. This parent does some life cycle stuff in onPause and onResume that all my activities need. The problem is I have a Map activity that must inherit from Android’s MapActivity yet I still need this activity to have my parent classes life cycle methods. Is there a way to have the MapActivity inherit from two parents? Or maybe a partial class I’m not really sure here. Any Ideas would be great.

Thanks,

Bryan

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  1. Editorial Team

    The short answer is no. You cannot have a class that inherits from two classes in Java. The standard recommendation would be to use an interface, but I don’t think that’s right for you in this case.

    Perhaps that you can achieve the code reuse you are looking for by using composition, for example, instead of inheritance. If you post a code example, I could give you a more specific answer.

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