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Google Agent Development Kit for Kotlin Reaches Feature Parity with Python, Supports On-Device AI
Google's Agent Development Kit for Kotlin hits 1.0: on-device AI agents now native to Android and the JVM ecosystem.
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Why it matters
ADK for Kotlin brings production-ready agent infrastructure to mobile and server environments where Python dominates today. Practitioners building agents on Android or JVM now have Google's official framework; this accelerates agent deployment across a new class of applications (edge devices, hybrid deployments).
The key facts
5 to knowAgent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin 1.0 released
Feature parity with Python and Java versions
Android-specific capabilities for on-device and hybrid AI agents
Production-ready framework for Kotlin, Android, JVM/server applications
Published September 20, 2026
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Publisher excerpt: Google has released the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin 1.0, a production-ready framework for building AI agents across Kotlin, Android, and JVM/server applications. It brings Kotlin to feature parity with Google's ADK for Python and Java, while adding Android-specific capabilities for…