The import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver conflicts with a type defined in the same file

Question

I'm getting below 2 compilation errors in Eclipse but I'm not understanding what may be the root cause

import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver; //ERROR 1
import io.appium.java_client.android.AndroidDriver;
import io.appium.java_client.MobileElement;

import org.openqa.selenium.WebElement;

public class AppiumDriver {
    private AppiumDriver<MobileElement> driver = null;    //ERROR 2
}

Error 1:

The import io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver conflicts with a type defined in the same file

Error 2:

The type AppiumDriver is not generic; it cannot be parameterized with arguments

Answer 1

You should rename your own class from

public class AppiumDriver

to

public class CustomAppiumDriver

---

The compiler is reporting errors based on the same name class as you are trying to import. The other way to access the classes from appium lib would be somewhat like:

public class AppiumDriver {
    private io.appium.java_client.AppiumDriver<MobileElement> driver = null;
}