Why does a protected android:onClick method in Activity actually work?

Question

Suppose you define android:onClick=\"doClick\" in your Activity as

protected void doClick(View view) { }

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Answer 1

As per "The Java™ Tutorials" : The protected modifier specifies that the member can only be accessed within its own package (as with package-private) and, in addition, by a subclass of its class in another package