How to become an Android application developer using the Kotlin language?

Question

IT education

I am 31 years old, I want to plunge into development. Learn to write applications in Kotlin. With the subsequent employment of a junior employee. I asked Google, YouTube, they say you first need to know the basics of the Java language. And then switch to Kotlin.
All that I have been able to do so far in the first 2 weeks is to get acquainted with Android Studio and make the project a working calculator application in the Kotlin language. What should my plan be for self-study? First the basics of the Java language and the transition to the Kotlin language? Or the basics of the C language? And then Kotlin? Write your own project? Maybe some literature is useful?

Answer 1

I will tell you from my own experience that literature is difficult to read, because you cannot copy examples. It's easier to start with videos and thematic sites, the most important thing is to write pies and not stop. And after a year or two of experience, you can already read classical works at your leisure.

Answer 2

I'll tell you about my experience.
I was a php developer, I created servers so that applications could work with them through api requests. I wanted to study android development, everywhere they wrote how good kotlin was, I wanted to start with it. I didn’t manage to learn from videos and literature, it was too difficult.
As a result, I started by studying one of the source codes for a java-android application that worked with my api server. Since there is an approximate concept of how this application works.
As a result, I quickly understood how the java application works (Approximately 20 days). Then I just converted java to kotlin (There is a Andorid Studio function that does it itself). And in the same way I studied kotlin, it took about 10 days to study.
Then I already know how to develop a full-fledged android application on kotlin. Now I am fully developing in kotlin (Really, a very good, understandable, convenient language).