What is the equivalent of Kotlin “by lazy” in Java?

Question

I'm following this article https://proandroiddev.com/detecting-when-an-android-app-backgrounds-in-2018-4b5a94977d5c to implement android lifecycle but on a legacy app that has the Application class on java.

How can I implement this kotlin code in java?

private val lifecycleListener: SampleLifecycleListener by lazy {
    SampleLifecycleListener()
}

I feel that is a dumb question, but I'm not familiar with lazy initialization and I'm not sure how to search this question, any "lazy theory link" will be welcome also.

Answer 1

private SampleLifecycleListener sll;

public synchronized SampleLifecycleListener getSampleLifecycleListener() {
    if (sll == null) {
        sll = new SampleLifecycleListener();
    }
    return sll;
}

That way it isn't initialized until the getter is called.

Answer 2

Beginning with Java 8, you can use ConcurrentHashMap#computeIfAbsent() to achieve laziness. ConcurrentHashMap is thread-safe.

class Lazy {
    private final ConcurrentHashMap<String, SampleLifecycleListener> instance = new ConcurrentHashMap<>(1);

    public SampleLifecycleListener getSampleLifecycleListener() {
        return instance.computeIfAbsent("KEY", k -> new SampleLifecycleListener()); // use whatever constant key
    }
}

You can use this like

SampleLifecycleListener sll = lazy.getSampleLifecycleListener();

Answer 3

You can call Kotlin lazy from Java if you want to:

import kotlin.Lazy;

Lazy<SampleLifecycleListener> lazyListener = kotlin.LazyKt.lazy(() -> new SampleLifecycleListener()));
SampleLifecycleListener realListener = lazyListener.getValue();