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Another one:
I have defined a field `val liveChallenge = MutableLiveData&lt;Challenge&gt;()`. I want to expose it as a `LiveData&lt;Challenge&gt;`. Should I just make the field private and write a getter, `fun getLiveChallenge(): LiveData&lt;Challenge&gt; = 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&lt;Challenge&gt;()
val liveChallenge: LiveData&lt;Challenge&gt; get() = liveChallengeMutable
```

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

Vote and add your use case to this feature :+1: 
<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-14663>

Also this KEEP
<https://github.com/Kotlin/KEEP/pull/122>