Getting started with Android and Kotlin

Getting started with Android and Kotlin

Author	Philip Torchinsky, Svetlana Isakova
Last Updated	25 July 2015

This tutorial walks us through creating a simple Kotlin application for Android using Android Studio.

Installing the Kotlin plugin

First, if using Android Studio, you'll need to install the Kotlin plugin. Go to File | Settings | Plugins | Install JetBrains plugin… and then search for and install Kotlin. You'll need to restart the IDE after this completes.

Creating a project

It’s extremely easy to start using Kotlin for Android development! In this tutorial we’ll follow the warming up process with Android Studio. If using Intellij IDEA with Android, the process is almost the same.

First let's create a new project. We cho