Hello. Not sure if this question is for here or #getting-started but… If I wanted to start learning Android app development would I be better off learning Kotlin first or Java? (it would be my first proper programming language outside of learning the basics in a few back in college)

Google has adopted a kotlin first stance for Android. However, there's still so much java out there, including most of the platform itself.

Be able to read java when needed but start with kotlin

Thanks! So just grab Android Studio and it has everything ready for Kotlin included?

Yep, kotlin is the default for creating new Android studio projects

And what about resources to start learning? As I said this will be the first language I learn properly, i.e. with the objective of building a real app, but I have experience with a few languages from an academic perspective such as Java, C#, C, C++ and Python

If you haven't done the kotlin koans yet that's still a good intro

koans?

It's a tutorial series https://kotlinlang.org/docs/tutorials/koans.html

Thank you!

https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/ https://play.kotlinlang.org/

How is Kotlin as a beginners language?

the best. 🙂 imo of course

Are there any recommended books or video series worth checking out as well?

Not as easy as something like python but far easier than any other I've used for complex things like real world async programming