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

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

Android Studio, the integrated development environment (IDE) for Android app developers, is getting an AI upgrade, Google announced at its developer conference, Google I/O 2025.

That’s important because if you want to target Android O, create an Instant App, start developing with Kotlin, or use the latest Android app performance tools, you’ll need Android Studio 3.0.

Investigating what kind of support the open source code editor has for Kotlin, recently named a first-class programming language for Android development.