Calling methods beginning with the lowercase 'm'.

Hi Lee,

This is purely a style choice. Most Android development prefixes it's fields (or *m*ember variables) with an m so that you can tell the difference between local variables and those belonging to the instance. Other styles do not. If you do not use a prefix, you must use the keyword this in your methods. So to take the example further:

Using m prefix:

public class Test {
     private int mTestScore = 0;

    public Test(int testScore) {
        // There is a clear difference in the naming
        mTestScore = testScore;
    }
}

Not using the prefix

public class Test {
     private int testScore = 0;

     public Test(int testScore) {
           // Because they have the same name, we must use 
          // the this keyword to tell the difference
           this.testScore = testScore;
     }
}

It's best to adhere to whatever style is going on in the codebase you are working in. I figured that the m prefix naming style would help everyone get used to the Android development standard, as well as practice working in other styles. When we get to Spring we will use the this style as that is the preferred style in Spring development.

Hope that helps!