
Kotlin is a modern and powerful language which overcomes many disadvantages of Java. It runs on Java Virtual Machine (JVM). It is interoperable with Java, so your existing Java libraries work well with Kotlin. It is developed by JetBrains which is the company behind IntelliJ Idea. As announced in last Google I/O Kotlin is an officially supported language for Android Development. Android Studio 3.0 had a stable release few weeks back which includes all the necessary tools and plugins required for Kotlin. In this tutorial lets discuss some of the basics.