Another one: I have defined a field

val liveChallenge = MutableLiveData<Challenge>()

. I want to expose it as a

LiveData<Challenge>

. Should I just make the field private and write a getter,

fun getLiveChallenge(): LiveData<Challenge> = liveChallenge

(like I would do in Java) or is there a smarter way?

Make a private property and a public one with custom getter:

private val liveChallengeMutable = MutableLiveData<Challenge>()
val liveChallenge: LiveData<Challenge> get() = liveChallengeMutable

Unfortunately there is no better way, except using properties instead of method (better for consumer, but same ammount of code)

Alright. Thanks 🙂