Kotlin Tutorial (Part 2) — IDE
2 min readSep 7, 2020
The main Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for developing Kotlin is IntelliJ IDEA, which is an open-source and free (Community Edition) IDE developed by JetBrains, the company that designed and developed Kotlin.
Step 1. Create the first project
First, in IntelliJ IDEA click on the new project.
Step 2. Create a Kotlin JVM project
Step 3. Create Hello World Project
Create a file in the src folder, name it main.kt.
The entry point in a Kotlin app is the main function, so to create a Hello World app, we need to create a function that prints “Hello World!”:
fun main() {
println("Hello World!")
}
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