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In Java, what does a reference to Class.class do?

Firstly apologies for asking this question here. I know it’s a simple question and can probably be answered quite quickly and easily. However searching for Java .class is such a loaded search term it brings up nothing useful.

Having said that, I just started learning Java and I just came across something like this:

Intent i = new Intent(this, ReminderManageActivity.class);

I am not sure, but I think ReminderManageActivity.class is an attribute that gives a string of the name of the class? Is that correct?

Answer 1

I know it sounds stupid, but class is a Class object that represent the Class.

If you want to instantiate / use some class, and you want to get this class as parametr, you can’t just write Intent i = new Intent(this, ReminderManageActivity); since ReminderManageActivity is not an object.