This chapter will explore building Android applications with Kotlin. It will detail why Kotlin is so popular for Android development and how it makes developers' lives easier.
We'll take a look at some of the tools being released by Google that make use of Kotlin, and how to create a new Android project, with Kotlin support, using Android Studio.
Finally, we'll explore the use of Android KTX and Kotlin Android Extensions in making Android development easier with Kotlin.
This chapter will be structured as follows:
- First-class Kotlin for Android
- Hello Android Kotlin
- Building with Kotlin
- First-party tooling