PublishedApi
When applied to a class or a member with internal visibility allows to use it from public inline functions and makes it effectively public.
Public inline functions cannot use non-public API, since if they are inlined, those non-public API references would violate access restrictions at a call site (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/inline-functions.html#public-inline-restrictions).
To overcome this restriction an internal
declaration can be annotated with the @PublishedApi
annotation:
this allows to call that declaration from public inline functions;
the declaration becomes effectively public, and this should be considered with respect to binary compatibility maintaining.
Since Kotlin
1.1When applied to a class or a member with internal visibility allows to use it from public inline functions and makes it effectively public.
Public inline functions cannot use non-public API, since if they are inlined, those non-public API references would violate access restrictions at a call site (https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/inline-functions.html#public-inline-restrictions).
To overcome this restriction an internal
declaration can be annotated with the @PublishedApi
annotation:
this allows to call that declaration from public inline functions;
the declaration becomes effectively public, and this should be considered with respect to binary compatibility maintaining.