Comments on: Android package name

By: Max

Max — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 12:43:10 +0000

Thanks, clear and very useful.

By: Barry

Barry — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 17:02:27 +0000

The most important thing to remember for me is that the package name specified in the manifest will be a unique application name. Remember this when you name your new applications since an Android device can not have two applications with the same package name. For example, you may want to name your facebook app as x.y.facebook.app1 instead of just x.y.facebook in case you will have another facebook application later. Other than this, I will just treat them the same and forget about other differences.

By: javan

javan — Mon, 06 Jun 2011 09:32:15 +0000

hello
very thnx .nice

By: lef

lef — Mon, 30 May 2011 12:06:11 +0000

I used Android Tools -> Rename Application Package from within eclipse IDE, and this told me that huge refactoring is necessary to achieve the goal: putting all .java into different JAVA package name. Including the manifest, which I thought that is the one that has to define the application package name. I don’t want my .java sources to be repackaged, someone knows what am I missing?

By: David

David — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 09:35:58 +0000

Nice, explained. Two packages makes a great difference, and can’t be compared cause they manifest in a different ways. There is a little overlap between the two types of packages but i’m ok with that.

By: andro beginner

andro beginner — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 14:14:52 +0000

I think there is some unspecified limitation in this naming convention in the entry ‘package’ in the manifest.
My 2 applications x.y.z and x.y.z.t are seen identical by the installer in my android.
Clearly thses two names are different !

By: Suresh Manchi

Suresh Manchi — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:23:09 +0000

Explains the notion of application package and java package crisply, Thanks.

By: Glad

Glad — Tue, 04 Jan 2011 16:36:28 +0000

For us, new beginners, it’s not easy to find a document like this. !priceless!
Thank you very much..!!! NO more questions regarding packages ….

By: Todd Sproule

Todd Sproule — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 13:25:42 +0000

There is some overlap between the two types of packages. The generated R.java is created in a Java package that has the same name as the Android package. This causes problems when trying to use Android maven tools to generate two separate Android packages from a common base.

By: Diaz

Diaz — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 13:07:49 +0000

I’m just starting android development and when I started my new android project , stopped after seeing the “package name” to google what should I worry about when naming my packages and what not. At first, I thought it was the same as Java packages. phew, good thing I’ve found this post. Saved me alot of headach. Thank you so much Mihai