Installing Android Studio with Kotlin on Linux Mint

When trying to install Android Studio from the Software Manager to begin Kotlin development on Linux Mint I received this error:

"Error deploying: While trying to apply extra data: runtime/org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/19.08 not installed"

and followed the advice given here to install the flatpak runtime required for Android Studio:

flatpak install flathub org.freedesktop.Platform/x86_64/19.08

which took a few minutes, followed by running flatpak update.