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

If you do want to try Kotlin for yourself, then as long as you have Android Studio 3.0 Preview or higher installed, there’s a few ways that you can get started: Create a new Android Studio project.

Kotlin is a super new programming language built by JetBrains, which also coincidentally develops the JetBrains IDE that Android Studio — Google’s official developer tool — is based on.

Kotlin can be added to earlier versions of Android Studio with a plug-in. Kotlin compiles to the same byte code as Java, interoperates with Java classes in natural ways, and shares its tooling ...