We’ve re-worked our news application for a Swedish newspaper – Omni to Kotlin in 2015. In fact, in September 2015 I already wrote about programming in Kotlin. When I started learning it over 2 years ago, I’ve already seen a great potential in Jet Brains’ programming language. Kotlin has gone through a very interesting journey. If you are a member of the official Kotlin Slack channel, you’ve probably seen the explosion of enthusiasm, just a second after it was officially confirmed, that Kotlin is now supported by Google and is becoming a first-class programming language! Stay tuned for more articles about new features coming to Android! Kotlin is now officially supported by Google! Today we cover Kotlin and Android Studio 3.0.

Instant apps are now available for all developers.

Android Studio 3.0 with new features (including Android Profiler).

Kotlin is now officially supported by Google.

Let’s have a look at the most important announcements that were given during the conference in San Francisco: