Java is needed to write the programs, the Android SDK is needed to make those programs run on Android and Android Studio has the job of putting it all together for you.

One problem, of course, is that Android Studio was not built from scratch; it’s based on the long-in-the-tooth IntelliJ IDEA platform, a Java IDE… and, well, you can tell.

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

In Android Studio for beginners, Part 2, you created your first animated mobile app using Android Studio. Now, Part 3 will take you through the steps to build and run the app in an Android device ...

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

Setting up GameMaker: Studio for Android GameMaker: Studio will not work with Android right out of the box. The first thing to do is to download the Java 7 JDK. After that, install the Android SDK.