This post is an introduction to Android app development for beginners. How to get setup and start your first Android project, and where to go from there!

This package features three courses that introduce students to Android development using the Kotlin coding language.

If you want to learn the Kotlin programming language, check out this list of books, courses, tutorials, videos and websites.

Google offers free lessons to help up-and-coming developers build Android apps using Kotlin.

Now, with 70% of the top 1,000 Android apps written in Kotlin, Google wants more beginners to learn the modern programming language.

Kotlin development is now supported by Android Studio by default, but why should you care? Here are 10 good reasons to give Kotlin a try!

Kotlin offers big advantages over Java for JVM and Android development, and plays nicely with Java in the same projects.

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.

This means developers can take existing code and easily build new features or replace Java code in pieces. Since Kotlin is dependent on Java, it means both languages will continue to be supported.