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Android

Posted by Rustam Karimov
Rustam Karimov
4,667 Points

m prefix?

For what we need m prefix?

2 Answers

Ozhan Saat
Ozhan Saat
Courses Plus Student 4,002 Points

You don't need it. In fact you shouldn't be using it at all. It's a redundant convention that doesn't have any real purpose. The convention in Java and Android is camel case, which is what you should be using. The only reason to use it is if you're working on legacy code and you want stick to the same naming.

anil rahman
anil rahman
7,786 Points
anil rahman
anil rahman
7,786 Points

It stands for member variable or member field, which is basically global variable. It's used to denote that you can access this in multiple areas that you like.