Heya everyone! :wave: I’m a noob to kotlin and had...

# android

[ankit.sharma]

Heya everyone! 👋
I’m a noob to kotlin and had this question. I’m trying to build a retrofit service class in kotlin and saw two approaches and not sure which one is better.
1. In the RetrofitApi.kt interface, define a companion object which returns a service object.
2. Define a separate class and instantiate the object in init {}.

Is there a recommended way of doing things on android and what are the pros and cons of each approach?
Thanks!

[gildor]

Up to you.
I would say that first approach is bad because coupling declaration with implementation
initialization in constructor of another class also doesn’t look correct for me, I would better write some factory of services

But it depends on your use case of course, and Kotlin implementation is not something very different from Java