Kotlin Companion Object: Introduce
Kotlin programming language is a popular language used on many platforms, especially Android. Kotlin was announced at the JVM Language Summit on July 19, 2011.
2 min readNov 6, 2022
Companion Object ⚔️
It doesn’t allow us to create Static Properties & Static Function in Kotlin. We need to use Companion Object so that we can create static properties. In Companion Object, we can define Constants, Properties, Functions that want to be static in the class and use them comfortably.
Objects defined in Companion Object are similar to static members in other Programming Languages( Java, C#). In fact, Companion Object is members of real objects at runtime, so we can use an Interface even when realized.
We will learn the companion object with a basic type example below: ⤵️
In our example, we simply created a Companion Object. We can access Companion Object in 2️⃣ ways. When we give a Name value, we can access it as…
