Android Studio will walk you through adding Kotlin dependencies into your project and convert the code to functionally equivalent Kotlin code.

That’s important because if you want to target Android O, create an Instant App, start developing with Kotlin, or use the latest Android app performance tools, you’ll need Android Studio 3.0.

Google's Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with built-in support for Kotlin and Java 8.

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.

Starting with Android Studio 3.0, Kotlin is included out-of-the-box, so there are no additional setup steps or add-ons to install. Kotlin was created by JetBrains and officially released early ...

Also on the multiplatform front, the team plans on adding the ability to run iOS code in Android Studio, Kotlin/Native runtime improvements, core libraries, and the ability to share across mobile ...

Kotlin became an official language for Android in May 2017 and it has proved popular -- Twitter and Netflix are among the 17 percent of Android Studio projects using it.

The latest stable release of Android Studio, dubbed Flamingo, brings Live Edit for Composable UIs, new app inspection features, updated IntelliJ, and more.