An introduction to Kotlin for Android development (Android Authority). A Complete Guide To Learn Kotlin For Android Development (Mindorks blog post). BTW, for non-Kotlin Android development in VS Code ...

To get started with Kotlin, download the Android Studio 3.0 preview, open one of your existing Java files, and then choose “Convert Java File to Kotlin File” in the Code menu.

All this code does, is to tell Android to display the layout file: activity_main.xml. Android Studio has handily opened that for us too, in another tab along the top of the main window.

BTW, for non-Kotlin Android development in VS Code, there's an "Android for VS Code" extension. Its description says: "This is a preview version of the Android for VS Code Extension. The extension ...

Code Copy Text import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity import android.os.Bundle import kotlinx.android.synthetic.main.activity_main.* //Import the extension function// ...

Studio Bot uses Codey, a new AI model for text-to-code generation announced by Google today that can suggest code as developers type into the editor. It can also generate code from a prompt.