Google will deliver Kotlin support in Android Studio 3.0, currently available in an early beta "canary" release. This release will ship with Kotlin out of the box.

"The course teaches Kotlin, a modern programming language that developers love because of its conciseness and how it increases productivity," said Kat Kuan, a developer advocate on the Android team.

Kotlin development is now supported by Android Studio by default, but why should you care? Here are 10 good reasons to give Kotlin a try!

An introduction to Kotlin for Android development (Android Authority). A Complete Guide To Learn Kotlin For Android Development (Mindorks blog post). BTW, for non-Kotlin Android development in VS Code ...

Among developers, Kotlin is considered Android's version of Swift, the easier-to-use programming language Apple introduced for iOS, and which ended up edging out the old Objective-C language.

It is available as a fully-supported programming language within Android Studio 3.0. According to the Kotlin website, users include Pinterest, Evernote, Uber, and Atlassian.

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects. Kotlin is a general purpose, free, open source, statically typed ...

Kotlin is a hot programming language right now, and its eclipse of Java for Android mobile development might leave Visual Studio developers wondering how they can get in on the action. The already ...

At its I/O 2017 developers conference today, Google announced Android is gaining official support for the Kotlin programming language, in addition to Java and C++. The news received the biggest ...