Creating an Android project with Android Studio

In order to be productive building Android apps, it is essential to become confident with using Android Studio. This is the official integrated development environment (IDE) for Android development, built on JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA IDE and developed by the Android Studio team at Google. You will use it throughout this course to create apps and progressively add more advanced features.Since Google I/O 2017 (the annual Google developer conference), Kotlin has been Google’s preferred programming language for Android app development. You will be using Kotlin throughout this book to build Android apps.Kotlin was created to address some of the shortcomings of Java in terms of verbosity, handling null types, and adding more functional programming techniques, amongst many other issues.Getting to grips and familiarizing yourself with Android Studio will enable you to feel confident building Android apps. So, let’...