@fastandcurious to [email protected] • 1 year agoWhat the actual fuck?!imagemessage-square41arrow-up1286arrow-down111file-text
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minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•1 year agoTheir website is slickapp.co (without the m at the end), but their Android package name is com.slickapp. Isn’t that a bit of an issue? For example, when handling URLs?
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•1 year agoNot really. Android apps can declare which urls they accept as deep links. Once that is registered with the system (ie after install) then links of that type can be opened by the app. It doesn’t have to match the package name.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink0•1 year agoThe package name should, however, match a domain owned by the publisher of the package.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink6•1 year agoThat is how Java names work. The whole domain-like appearance is meant to avoid name collisions between packages made by different companies.
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink4•1 year agoYou are thinking of the standard library, I mean package names for third party code, specifically for what Java calls packages. https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/package/namingpkgs.html
Their website is slickapp.co (without the m at the end), but their Android package name is com.slickapp.
Isn’t that a bit of an issue?
For example, when handling URLs?
Don’t most Android packages begin with com. ?
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@biscat @tanja yea
Not really.
Android apps can declare which urls they accept as deep links. Once that is registered with the system (ie after install) then links of that type can be opened by the app. It doesn’t have to match the package name.
The package name should, however, match a domain owned by the publisher of the package.
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That is how Java names work. The whole domain-like appearance is meant to avoid name collisions between packages made by different companies.
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You are thinking of the standard library, I mean package names for third party code, specifically for what Java calls packages.
https://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/java/package/namingpkgs.html
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