Companion is a keyword used in Kotlin. An object declaration inside a class can be marked as a companion object. All members of the companion object can be called using the class name directly. Sounds like static!
class MyClass { companion object Factory { fun create(): MyClass = MyClass() } }
Calling can look as follows:
val instance = MyClass.create()
The name of a companion object can be omitted. There can be multiple companion objects inside a single class and they should have a name in this case.
