How Can We Reference Kotlin Constants in a Java Annotation Declaration?

Question

Given this bit of Kotlin:

object OldTownRoad {
  const val COWBOY_HATS = \"from Gucci\"
  const val WRANGLER = \"on my booty\"
}

and this J

Answer 1

I forgot to see if this was an Android Studio bug. :facepalm:

It turns out that if you run the code, it runs fine. Android Studio 3.5.3 appears to be complaining needlessly.

I filed a bug report to try to get confirmation of the problem.

Many thanks to @natario, whose comment made me realize that this might be an IDE problem!