Now that Google has embraced Kotlin—making it an official language on Android— cross-platform development has become a lot simpler. The striking similarities between Swift and Kotlin make maintaining an app across iOS and Android more intuitive. In this course, discover how to leverage your Swift knowledge to learn Kotlin. Instructor Jon Bott covers the basics of Kotlin, highlighting the similarities and differences between Kotlin and Swift by looking at Swift code examples and walking through how to code Kotlin equivalents. He also demonstrates how to work with different database options, and provides an opportunity for you to get hands-on experience using your iOS knowledge to construct an Android UI.