Android Studio is a developer kit that you can use to create and troubleshoot your own Android apps. We'll go over what it is (and what it isn't).

The official language for Android development is Java but it isn't the only language you can use to develop Android apps.

Google has released Android Studio 3.0 with support for the Kotlin programming language and new tools to speed up app development and debugging.

After Kotlin was approved by Google for Android development, more than 50% of Android developers switched to it from Java, and also up to 20% of Java server-side developers.

Jetbrains, the team behind the popular Java IDE IntelliJ, have released Kotlin 1.0, its homegrown programming language for JVM and Java. The company descries Kotlin as “a pragmatic programming ...