Using “this” with class name

Question

I am doing Android programming and was learning about Intents, when I saw a constructor that, to my C# trained mind, seemed funky. The call was:

Intent myI         


        

Answer 1

.this

is used in nested classes to refer to the current instance of the enclosing class, since the `this' keyword refers to the nest class instance.

public class Siht {
    class NestedSiht {
        void demoThis() {
            System.err.println("this' is an instance of: " + 
                            this.getClass().getName());
            System.err.println("Siht.this' is an instance of: " +
                            Siht.this.getClass().getName());
        }
    }


void demoThis() {
    new java.lang.Object() {
        void demoThis() {
            System.err.println("`this' is an instance of: " + 
                            this.getClass().getName());
            System.err.println("`Siht.this' is an instance of: " +
                            Siht.this.getClass().getName());
        }
    }.demoThis();
    new NestedSiht().demoThis();
}

public static void main(String [] args) {
    new Siht().demoThis();
}


}