First steps in Android Studio. What to consider when choosing a language?

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Android

Hey!
I decided to learn how to develop applications for Android. Read about Android Studio. Watched a couple of tutorials. I read some manuals.
Everywhere they write about the importance of understanding Java. There are a couple of questions left.
Please help me understand from the height of your experience.
- Is it worth it for a beginner to learn exactly Java, or since I haven’t learned either one or the other, is it better to immediately learn the simpler Kotlin language, which at least has a simpler syntax?
- Everywhere they write that you need to know the language. But what does it mean that Android Studio is just a convenient development environment? With the help of methods and classes built into Andryusha's library, can I use ready-made methods in my project? Then it turns out that you need to learn a programming language and somewhere to dig up a list of all classes and methods built into android? And maybe then the Studio itself is not needed?
- What would be useful to read for a novice developer? Books from the series "programming super-duper for Android in Android Studio", or how else to study the built-in methods, and build the basis for understanding all logic on studying Java / Kotlin?
Please help me take the first step :) There is a lot of information and it is very diverse / heterogeneous.

Answer 1

Developing an app in Android Studio is like writing a novel in MS Word. If you don't speak the language, you won't succeed. If you own it, you can write a good novel with a quill pen on paper, but it will be much faster and more convenient in the editor.
The first step is to read the textbook. I don't know if there are good tutorials describing android development for Kotlin. I know that under Java is.

Answer 2

-Costs. Java is a very interesting programming language and much easier than it looks.
-It is much more convenient to write and compile code in the studio.
-Read the book "Head First Android Programming"