Kotlin is a hot programming language right now, and its eclipse of Java for Android mobile development might leave Visual Studio developers wondering how they can get in on the action.

Microsoft said support for the Android emulator will be coming soon, but didn't give an exact timeframe. Mac users can sign-up to be notified when it's available from the Visual Studio website.

Here’s an interesting one. Microsoft has created a Visual Studio Emulator for Android, and it’s a free download, which can be used separately from Visual Studio itself.

Investigating what kind of support the open source code editor has for Kotlin, recently named a first-class programming language for Android development.

I posed a few questions to Wallace "Wally" McClure, a partner at Scalable Development, Inc. and author of three books related to Mono-based development (including the upcoming Professional Android ...