Mastering Kotlin

Calling static Java methods from Kotlin

Now let's look at another example of working with Java from Kotlin. In the following snippet, you'll see a simple Java class named Logger. This class has a single, static method named logMessage:

// simple Java class with static methodpublic class Logger {    public static void logMessage(String message) {        System.out.println(message);    }}

Now see how the Java method can be used from Kotlin to print the name from the Developer object created in the previous example:

// Kotlin function calling the static Java method Logger.logMessagefun main(args: Array<String>) {    val kotlinDev = Developer("Your Name", "Kotlin")    val name = kotlinDev.getName()    Logger.logMessage(name)}

The logMessage method can be called from ...