[Mono-bugs] [Bug 632611] Application name is that of the activity class, not specified name

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https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632611

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632611#c10


--- Comment #10 from Jonathan Pryor <jpryor at novell.com> 2010-08-20 16:34:04 UTC ---
I'm saying that //activity/@android:name is the name of a Java class that
Android should load, create, and dispatch invocation to.

If this Java type doesn't exist, Bad Things Happen. ;-)

Monodroid is responsible for generating this type during the build process.

Now, the managed type name and the Java type names don't need to be identical,
and in fact, almost never will; monodroid camelCases the namespace name, so the
managed type Mono.Samples.HelloActivity has a Java proxy type of
mono.samples.HelloActivity (note the case changes).  All that's required is
that the //activity/@android:name value in AndroidManifest.xml exist as a
loadable Java type name.

Consequently, if we had a pressing use case to allow people to choose the Java
name, monodroid could use [Name] instead, or we could use the already widely
used [Register] attribute (though [Register] uses JNI names, not java names,
but we could do the necessary munging if deemed necessary).

The question is, IS there such a pressing need to allow controlling the type
names that monodroid generates? I can't think of one.

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