Public-non-public (beginner)

Question

I have a beginners question;
The second code block has legally imported a class that is public, that's ok. But the variables and methods of it are not declared public (package only) would, then, the Beta program be able to access the variable and method even though it is outside the package ??
(excuse the slack code!)
Package Greek;
Public class Alpah{
int iamvariable;
void method(){
code here;
Now the controller class;
Package Roman;
import GreekAlpha;
Public class Beta{
public void method()}
Aplha a= new Alpha();
a.iamvariable = 4 // is this legal???
etc.
Cheers!

Answer 1

No, you can't directly access a package-access variable except from the same package. You can create a public get() method that returns the value of the variable.
//in class Alpha
public int getIamvariable() {
return iamvariable;