Learn Kotlin for Android Development: The Next Generation Language for Modern Android Apps Programming

© Peter Späth 2019

Peter SpäthLearn Kotlin for Android Developmenthttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4467-8_1

1. Your First Kotlin Application: Hello Kotlin

Peter Späth¹ 

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Leipzig, Germany

 

In this chapter we are going to learn how to use the Android Studio integrated development environment (IDE) to write and execute a first simple Kotlin program.

Setting Up an IDE: Android Studio

Although computer programs could be written in simple text editors and then prepared and executed by some system-level commands entered in a system terminal, using an IDE helps in keeping project files together and also simplifies various development-related activities.

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Computer languages come in two flavors: Either you have some program code that by some execution engine ...