How does a '.class' property work?

Question

First time developing in Java, and first time developing for Android, so it\'s quite a newbie question.

I currently have this code:

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Answer 1

Class is a class that represents classes. :)

It is not "Object". It is not a superclass or even in your "NewTourny" hierarchy. That is why you can't cast from a NewTourney to a Class.

The .class property is an instance of Class that represents type information.

You can use it to do reflective style calls to instantiate something you don't know the type of at compile time.