Kotlin Programming Cookbook

How to do it...

One of the use cases of static methods is that we can prevent multiple copying of the same methods in different classes, and also that we don't need to create an object of the enclosing class.

Kotlin recommends creating package-level functions. If you are coming from the Java world, this probably won't make any sense to you as this isn't supported in Java. Let's see how it's done in Kotlin:

1. You need to create a Kotlin file with the .kt extension and just declare the method that you'll be using in many places. I have created a SampleClass.kt file and have added a method that we will be calling from other classes:

package packageAfun foo(){    println("calling from boo method")}

2. Now, I'll call this method from HelloWorld.kt ...