Singleton class in Kotlin

Question

I want to know way to create singleton class, so that my Util class instantiate only once per app. However when I converted my Java class to kotlin, below code was generated

Answer 1

A Singleton example over retrofit to support the api call.

object RetrofitClient {

    private var instance: Api? = null
    private val BASE_URL = "https://jsonplaceholder.typicode.com/"

    fun getInstance(): Api? {
        if (instance == null) {
            val retrofit = Retrofit.Builder()
                    .baseUrl(BASE_URL)
                    .addConverterFactory(GsonConverterFactory.create())
                    .build()
            instance = retrofit.create(Api::class.java)
        }
        return instance
    }
}

Answer 2

There is a special keyword object for singletons in Kotlin. You can just type something as simple as this to get working singleton class:

object MySingleton

or when you want some member functions:

object MySingleton {
    fun someFunction(...) {...}
}

And then use it:

MySingleton.someFunction(...)

there is a reference: https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/object-declarations.html#object-declarations

EDIT:

In your case, you just need to replace in your definition of class UtilProject to this:

object UtilProject {

    // here you put all member functions, values and variables
    // that you need in your singleton Util class, for example:

    val maxValue: Int = 100

    fun compareInts(a: Int, b: Int): Int {...}
}

And then you can simply use your singleton in other places:

UtilProject.compareInts(1, 2)
//or
var value = UtilProject.maxValue