title: Android Manifest: Why sometimes ".<classname>" instead of just "<classname>"?
body: <p>What does the dot mean?</p>
  
  <p>most of the time I just write that:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;activity android:name="OneActivity" ...&gt;...&lt;/activity&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But sometimes I see in the autogenerated file:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;activity android:name=".OtherActivity" ...&gt;...&lt;/activity&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And also in the <a href="http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/services.html" rel="noreferrer">Docs for Service</a> I see that they write</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;manifest ... &gt;
    ...
    &lt;application ... &gt;
        &lt;service android:name=".ExampleService" /&gt;
        ...
    &lt;/application&gt;
  &lt;/manifest&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I never saw any differences in trying the one or the other.</p>