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General Info

To start a new project with Kotlin, open your Android Studio. You'll see this view.

New Project

You can start with Empty Activity and click Next.

New Project Config

In this section, you'll fill:

  • Application Name
  • Package Name: usually use domain example.com and reverse it com.example + application name (when you write the application name, it will generate lower case application name)
  • Save Location: Place to save your application
  • Minimum SDK: Minimum SDK that you applied for the application, it will impact the user can download the application.
  • Build Configuration Language: Build configuration for the application, you can use
    • Kotlin DSL (build.gradle.kts) (Recommended)
    • Kotlin DSL (build.gradle.kts) + Gradle Version Catalog (Experimental)
    • Groovy DSL (build.gradle)

WARNING

If you get error The path '/Users' is not writable. Please choose a new location, please check if the destination is existed.