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Trying to call a method in a data binded xml file where I want to first create a new object in Kotlin through it’s companion function and let it resolve to setText. Running into a compiler issue, do I need to add an annotation to expose this somehow to the xml? 

Path to `Money` is imported in the &lt;data&gt; tags.
                   `android:text="@{Money.Companion.fromCents(state.cents)}"`
 
````
****/ data binding error ****msg:cannot find method fromCents(java.math.BigDecimal) in class...
```

```
    companion object {

        fun fromCents(pennies: BigDecimal): Money {
            return Money(pennies.divide(BigDecimal(100)))
        }
    }
```

Wouldn’t it be safer/easier to use a @BindingAdapter

You’d have: `app:fromCents="@{state.cents}"`

with ```object MoneyDataBinding
{
    @BindingAdapter("fromCents")
    @JvmStatic
    fun fromCents(view: TextView, pennies: BigDecimal)
    {
        // magic
    }
}```

I figured it out, Just can’t call `Companion` in the XML :slightly_smiling_face:

It’s a one off, don’t feel like creating a binding adapter :slightly_smiling_face: