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.

This post is an introduction to Kotlin for Android development. Learn how the language differs from Java and the basic syntax and layout.

Google and Jetbrains have released the first stable build of Jetpack Compose 1.0, the new Kotlin-based UI framework for Android.

Here's what Meta's developers have learned from moving their code base from the Java programming language over to Kotlin.

Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally develops the JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google’s official developer tool — is based on.