When the install is complete, you will need to restart Android Studio to apply the new plugin.

To do this, navigate to Preferences > Plugins > Browse Repositories and search for “Kotlin” then, click on “Install” as shown in the figure below. First, we’re going to go ahead and install the plugin. The good people at JetBrains have created an IntelliJ/Android Studio Plugin for Kotlin. Let’s get started! Install Kotlin Plugin for Android Studio In this post however, we will learn how to set up Android Studio for Kotlin development and will write our “Hello World” app in Kotlin. There are tons of articles that talk about the advantages of Kotlin in comparison to Java, so I won’t be covering that in this post.

Kotlin is statically typed, it runs on the JVM and offers a lot of benefits. Kotlin is a new programming language developed by JetBrains - the makers of IntelliJ IDE which the Android Studio is based on. If you have been following the latest trends in the AndroidDev world, you are likely to have heard about Kotlin.

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