PublishedApi

For Common, JVM, JS

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 (http://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.

For Native

Specifies that this part of internal API is effectively public exposed by using in public inline function