Get child class name from parent
On some occasions simply this line in the parent class solves this problem. It returns the name of the "child" class (not the parent):
this.getClass().getName() //String like "com.mycompany.myclassname"this.getClass().getSimpleName() //String like "myclassname"See here for further discussion: http://www.coderanch.com/t/324715/java/java/Getting-child-class-name-parent
Use instanceof operator.
Supposing you have a base class and two subclasses named Base, SubOne and SubTwo, if you want to check if a variable ref is an instance of SubOne or SubTwo you'd say:
if(ref instanceof SubOne){}else if(ref instanceof SubTwo){}Note that: (ref instanceof Base) will always return true though.
I think you want to use the instanceof operator, for example:
if(this instanceof SomeCustomActivity) { // do stuff} else if (this instanceof AnotherCustomActivity) { // do other stuff}And that is all there is to it.