Got a quick question about using a Java API from Kotlin. The API in question is the Cast API from Google that is defined in a strange way.

public final class Cast {
public static final Cast.CastApi CastApi;

    private Cast() {
    }

    public interface CastApi {
   }
}

Accessing the static final field from Kotlin seems impossible AS always think I'm referring to the interface and not the field, is there any trick for that?

Hm… it works for me:

val api: Cast.CastApi = Cast.CastApi

It resolves to type at the left and to static variable at the right.

Hum thanks for the workaround 🙂 I was doing like before in Java and directly calling

Cast.CastApi.function()

and that does not work. Using a val works and allows me to remove a Java file that I used as a bridge.

I now see what is the problem! You don’t have to use a variable. You can also add an import for

Cast.CastApi

and the a short name

CastApi

would resolve to a variable so that you can use its methods with

CastApi.method()

Import hack works too 🙂 Should I raise an issue for the default use case, or is somewhat normal?

It is so by design.