Joao Alves

Here we go everyone, first article in the series. Let’s start this Android Kotlin journey, and what better place than the starting point right? This article will cover the creation of a very simple Hello World Android Project with Kotlin.

This will be very similar to create a base Android project with Java just clicking a couple of different buttons and getting a Kotlin project instead in the end.

In order to use Kotlin properly, we should use Android Studio 3. It works with lower versions but you need to add a plugin. AS3 has full support and it’s now in stable release so you should probably use it anyway. You can download the latest version here:

Ok Kotlin finally time to play a little. This is the start of my active journey with Kotlin actually doing something with it for Android. After a lot of articles read, a lot of videos watched and also going through some books now it’s time to actually build something with it.

The plan is to make a series of articles sharing my journey in trying stuff with Kotlin and Android. I think the ultimate goal might be to get a nice template project or a set of useful samples out of this, that anyone can easily pick up later and benefit from.