Android Development with Kotlin

Import aliases

An alias is a way to introduce new names for types. If the type name is already used in the file, is inappropriate, or is too long, you can introduce a different name and use it instead of the original type name. An alias does not introduce a new type, and it is available only before compile time (when writing code). The compiler replaces a class alias with an actual class, so it does not exist at runtime.

Sometimes, we need to use a few classes with the same name in a single file. For example, the InterstitialAd type is defined both in the Facebook and Google advertising libraries. Let's suppose that we want to use them both in a single file. This situation is common in projects where we need to implement both ad providers ...