Kotlin is no-longer new. As of 7 May 2019, Kotlin has been the official “preferred” language for Android development according to Google. It has been available as a built-in feature of Android ...

To learn Kotlin for Android development, you’ll first need to download Android Studio and set everything up. See also: How to install Android Studio and start your very first project ...

What’s new in Android Studio 3.x. Find out what to look for in the latest version of Android Studio, including support for Kotlin, Java 8, and a wealth of new tools and plugins.

By comparison, Android Studio 4.0, as ... the Layout Inspector and Layout Validation tools let you preview your app’s design in 3D or across multiple screen ... essential support for Kotlin ...

To get started with Kotlin, download the Android Studio 3.0 preview, open one of your existing Java files, and then choose “Convert Java File to Kotlin File” in the Code menu.

At its I/O 2017 developer conference, Google today unveiled Android Studio 3.0, the latest version of its integrated development environment (IDE).

Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally develops the JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google’s official developer tool — is based on.

Kotlin can be added to earlier versions of Android Studio with a plug-in. Kotlin compiles to the same byte code as Java, interoperates with Java classes in natural ways, and shares its tooling ...