Google's Android Studio 3.0 dev environment has just become available in the stable channel, with built-in support for Kotlin and Java 8.

Google has released Android Studio 3.0 with support for the Kotlin programming language and new tools to speed up app development and debugging.

Starting with Android Studio 3.0, Kotlin is included out-of-the-box, so there are no additional setup steps or add-ons to install. Kotlin was created by JetBrains and officially released early ...

That’s important because if you want to target Android O, create an Instant App, start developing with Kotlin, or use the latest Android app performance tools, you’ll need Android Studio 3.0.

Android Studio will walk you through adding Kotlin dependencies into your project and convert the code to functionally equivalent Kotlin code.

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

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