ComponentName
  public
  
  final
  
  class
  ComponentName
  
    extends Object
  
  
  
  
  
      implements
      
        Cloneable, 
      
        Comparable<ComponentName>, 
      
        Parcelable
      
  
  
| java.lang.Object | |
| ↳ | android.content.ComponentName | 
Identifier for a specific application component
 (Activity, Service,
 BroadcastReceiver, or
 ContentProvider) that is available.  Two
 pieces of information, encapsulated here, are required to identify
 a component: the package (a String) it exists in, and the class (a String)
 name inside of that package.
Summary
| Inherited constants | 
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    public
    static
    final
    Creator<ComponentName> | CREATOR
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| Public constructors | |
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      ComponentName(Context pkg, Class<?> cls)
      Create a new component identifier from a Context and Class object. | |
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      ComponentName(Context pkg, String cls)
      Create a new component identifier from a Context and class name. | |
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      ComponentName(Parcel in)
      Instantiate a new ComponentName from the data in a Parcel that was
 previously written with  | |
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      ComponentName(String pkg, String cls)
      Create a new component identifier. | |
| Public methods | |
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        ComponentName | 
      clone()
      Creates and returns a copy of this object. | 
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        int | 
      compareTo(ComponentName that)
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        static
        
        
        ComponentName | 
      createRelative(String pkg, String cls)
      Create a new component identifier where the class name may be specified as either absolute or relative to the containing package. | 
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        static
        
        
        ComponentName | 
      createRelative(Context pkg, String cls)
      Create a new component identifier where the class name may be specified as either absolute or relative to the containing package. | 
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        int | 
      describeContents()
      Describe the kinds of special objects contained in this Parcelable instance's marshaled representation. | 
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        boolean | 
      equals(Object obj)
      Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one. Two components are considered to be equal if the packages in which they reside have the same name, and if the classes that implement each component also have the same name. | 
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        String | 
      flattenToShortString()
      The same as  | 
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        String | 
      flattenToString()
      Return a String that unambiguously describes both the package and class names contained in the ComponentName. | 
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        String | 
      getClassName()
      Return the class name of this component. | 
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        String | 
      getPackageName()
      Return the package name of this component. | 
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        String | 
      getShortClassName()
      Return the class name, either fully qualified or in a shortened form (with a leading '.') if it is a suffix of the package. | 
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        int | 
      hashCode()
      Returns a hash code value for the object. | 
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        static
        
        
        ComponentName | 
      readFromParcel(Parcel in)
      Read a ComponentName from a Parcel that was previously written
 with  | 
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        String | 
      toShortString()
      Return string representation of this class without the class's name as a prefix. | 
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        String | 
      toString()
      Returns a string representation of the object. | 
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        static
        
        
        ComponentName | 
      unflattenFromString(String str)
      Recover a ComponentName from a String that was previously created with
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        static
        
        
        void | 
      writeToParcel(ComponentName c, Parcel out)
      Write a ComponentName to a Parcel, handling null pointers. | 
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        void | 
      writeToParcel(Parcel out, int flags)
      Flatten this object in to a Parcel. | 
| Inherited methods | |
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Fields
Public constructors
ComponentName
public ComponentName (Context pkg, Class<?> cls)
Create a new component identifier from a Context and Class object.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| pkg | Context: A Context for the package implementing the component, from
 which the actual package name will be retrieved.
 This value cannot benull. | 
| cls | Class: The Class object of the desired component, from which the
 actual class name will be retrieved.
 This value cannot benull. | 
ComponentName
public ComponentName (Context pkg, String cls)
Create a new component identifier from a Context and class name.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| pkg | Context: A Context for the package implementing the component,
 from which the actual package name will be retrieved.
 This value cannot benull. | 
| cls | String: The name of the class inside of pkg that
 implements the component.
 This value cannot benull. | 
ComponentName
public ComponentName (Parcel in)
Instantiate a new ComponentName from the data in a Parcel that was
 previously written with writeToParcel(android.os.Parcel, int).  Note that you
 must not use this with data written by
 writeToParcel(android.content.ComponentName, android.os.Parcel) since it is not possible
 to handle a null ComponentObject here.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| in | Parcel: The Parcel containing the previously written ComponentName,
 positioned at the location in the buffer where it was written. | 
ComponentName
public ComponentName (String pkg, String cls)
Create a new component identifier.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| pkg | String: The name of the package that the component exists in.  Can
 not be null. | 
| cls | String: The name of the class inside of pkg that
 implements the component.  Can not be null. | 
Public methods
clone
public ComponentName clone ()
Creates and returns a copy of this object.  The precise meaning
 of "copy" may depend on the class of the object. The general
 intent is that, for any object x, the expression:
 
will be true, and that the expression:
will be
true, but these are not absolute requirements.
 While it is typically the case that:
 will be
true, this is not an absolute requirement.
 
 By convention, the returned object should be obtained by calling
 super.clone.  If a class and all of its superclasses (except
 Object) obey this convention, it will be the case that
 x.clone().getClass() == x.getClass().
 
 By convention, the object returned by this method should be independent
 of this object (which is being cloned).  To achieve this independence,
 it may be necessary to modify one or more fields of the object returned
 by super.clone before returning it.  Typically, this means
 copying any mutable objects that comprise the internal "deep structure"
 of the object being cloned and replacing the references to these
 objects with references to the copies.  If a class contains only
 primitive fields or references to immutable objects, then it is usually
 the case that no fields in the object returned by super.clone
 need to be modified.
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| ComponentName | a clone of this instance. | 
compareTo
public int compareTo (ComponentName that)
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| that | ComponentName | 
| Returns | |
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| int | |
createRelative
public static ComponentName createRelative (String pkg, String cls)
Create a new component identifier where the class name may be specified as either absolute or relative to the containing package.
Relative package names begin with a '.' character. For a package
 "com.example" and class name ".app.MyActivity" this method
 will return a ComponentName with the package "com.example"and class name
 "com.example.app.MyActivity". Fully qualified class names are also
 permitted.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| pkg | String: the name of the package the component exists in
 This value cannot benull. | 
| cls | String: the name of the class inside of pkg that implements
            the component
 This value cannot benull. | 
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| ComponentName | the new ComponentName
 This value cannot be null. | 
createRelative
public static ComponentName createRelative (Context pkg, String cls)
Create a new component identifier where the class name may be specified as either absolute or relative to the containing package.
Relative package names begin with a '.' character. For a package
 "com.example" and class name ".app.MyActivity" this method
 will return a ComponentName with the package "com.example"and class name
 "com.example.app.MyActivity". Fully qualified class names are also
 permitted.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| pkg | Context: a Context for the package implementing the component
 This value cannot benull. | 
| cls | String: the name of the class inside of pkg that implements
            the component
 This value cannot benull. | 
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| ComponentName | the new ComponentName
 This value cannot be null. | 
describeContents
public int describeContents ()
Describe the kinds of special objects contained in this Parcelable
 instance's marshaled representation. For example, if the object will
 include a file descriptor in the output of writeToParcel(android.os.Parcel, int),
 the return value of this method must include the
 CONTENTS_FILE_DESCRIPTOR bit.
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| int | a bitmask indicating the set of special object types marshaled
 by this Parcelable object instance.
 Value is either 0orCONTENTS_FILE_DESCRIPTOR | 
equals
public boolean equals (Object obj)
Indicates whether some other object is "equal to" this one.
 The equals method implements an equivalence relation
 on non-null object references:
 
- It is reflexive: for any non-null reference value
     x,x.equals(x)should returntrue.
- It is symmetric: for any non-null reference values
     xandy,x.equals(y)should returntrueif and only ify.equals(x)returnstrue.
- It is transitive: for any non-null reference values
     x,y, andz, ifx.equals(y)returnstrueandy.equals(z)returnstrue, thenx.equals(z)should returntrue.
- It is consistent: for any non-null reference values
     xandy, multiple invocations ofx.equals(y)consistently returntrueor consistently returnfalse, provided no information used inequalscomparisons on the objects is modified.
- For any non-null reference value x,x.equals(null)should returnfalse.
An equivalence relation partitions the elements it operates on into equivalence classes; all the members of an equivalence class are equal to each other. Members of an equivalence class are substitutable for each other, at least for some purposes.
Two components are considered to be equal if the packages in which they reside have the same name, and if the classes that implement each component also have the same name.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| obj | Object: This value may benull. | 
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| boolean | trueif this object is the same as the obj
          argument;falseotherwise. | 
flattenToShortString
public String flattenToShortString ()
The same as flattenToString(), but abbreviates the class
 name if it is a suffix of the package.  The result can still be used
 with unflattenFromString(java.lang.String).
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| String | Returns a new String holding the package and class names.  This
 is represented as the package name, concatenated with a '/' and then the
 class name.
 This value cannot be null. | 
See also:
flattenToString
public String flattenToString ()
Return a String that unambiguously describes both the package and
 class names contained in the ComponentName.  You can later recover
 the ComponentName from this string through
 unflattenFromString(java.lang.String).
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| String | Returns a new String holding the package and class names.  This
 is represented as the package name, concatenated with a '/' and then the
 class name.
 This value cannot be null. | 
See also:
getClassName
public String getClassName ()
Return the class name of this component.
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| String | This value cannot be null. | 
getPackageName
public String getPackageName ()
Return the package name of this component.
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| String | This value cannot be null. | 
getShortClassName
public String getShortClassName ()
Return the class name, either fully qualified or in a shortened form (with a leading '.') if it is a suffix of the package.
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| String | |
hashCode
public int hashCode ()
Returns a hash code value for the object. This method is
 supported for the benefit of hash tables such as those provided by
 HashMap.
 
 The general contract of hashCode is:
 
- Whenever it is invoked on the same object more than once during
     an execution of a Java application, the hashCodemethod must consistently return the same integer, provided no information used inequalscomparisons on the object is modified. This integer need not remain consistent from one execution of an application to another execution of the same application.
- If two objects are equal according to the equalsmethod, then calling thehashCodemethod on each of the two objects must produce the same integer result.
- It is not required that if two objects are unequal
     according to the equalsmethod, then calling thehashCodemethod on each of the two objects must produce distinct integer results. However, the programmer should be aware that producing distinct integer results for unequal objects may improve the performance of hash tables.
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| int | a hash code value for this object. | 
readFromParcel
public static ComponentName readFromParcel (Parcel in)
Read a ComponentName from a Parcel that was previously written
 with writeToParcel(android.content.ComponentName, android.os.Parcel), returning either
 a null or new object as appropriate.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| in | Parcel: The Parcel from which to read the ComponentName | 
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| ComponentName | Returns a new ComponentName matching the previously written object, or null if a null had been written. | 
See also:
toShortString
public String toShortString ()
Return string representation of this class without the class's name as a prefix.
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| String | |
toString
public String toString ()
Returns a string representation of the object.
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| String | a string representation of the object. | 
unflattenFromString
public static ComponentName unflattenFromString (String str)
Recover a ComponentName from a String that was previously created with
 flattenToString().  It splits the string at the first '/',
 taking the part before as the package name and the part after as the
 class name.  As a special convenience (to use, for example, when
 parsing component names on the command line), if the '/' is immediately
 followed by a '.' then the final class name will be the concatenation
 of the package name with the string following the '/'.  Thus
 "com.foo/.Blah" becomes package="com.foo" class="com.foo.Blah".
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| str | String: The String that was returned by flattenToString().
 This value cannot benull. | 
| Returns | |
|---|---|
| ComponentName | Returns a new ComponentName containing the package and class
 names that were encoded in str
 This value may be null. | 
See also:
writeToParcel
public static void writeToParcel (ComponentName c, Parcel out)
Write a ComponentName to a Parcel, handling null pointers.  Must be
 read with readFromParcel(android.os.Parcel).
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| c | ComponentName: The ComponentName to be written. | 
| out | Parcel: The Parcel in which the ComponentName will be placed. | 
See also:
writeToParcel
public void writeToParcel (Parcel out, int flags)
Flatten this object in to a Parcel.
| Parameters | |
|---|---|
| out | Parcel: The Parcel in which the object should be written.
 This value cannot benull. | 
| flags | int: Additional flags about how the object should be written.
 May be 0 orParcelable.PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE.
 Value is either0or a combination ofParcelable.PARCELABLE_WRITE_RETURN_VALUE, and android.os.Parcelable.PARCELABLE_ELIDE_DUPLICATES | 
