Building real-world on-device AI with LiteRT and NPU

LiteRT is a production-ready framework designed to help mobile developers unlock the power of Neural Processing Units (NPUs), overcoming the performance and battery limitations of traditional CPU or GPU processing. By providing a unified…

2026.04.25

Agents CLI in Agent Platform: create to production in one CLI

Google Cloud has introduced the Agents CLI, a specialized tool designed to bridge the gap between local development and production-grade AI agent deployment. The CLI provides coding assistants with machine-readable access to the full Goo…

2026.04.25

Production-Ready AI Agents: 5 Lessons from Refactoring a Monolith

The blog post outlines the transition of a brittle sales research prototype into a robust production agent using Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK). By replacing monolithic scripts with orchestrated sub-agents and structured Pydantic o…

2026.04.25

A2UI v0.9: The New Standard for Portable, Framework-Agnostic Generative UI

A2UI v0.9 introduces a framework-agnostic standard designed to help AI agents generate real-time, tailored UI widgets using a company’s existing design system. This update simplifies the developer experience with a new Agent SDK for Pyth…

2026.04.25

MaxText Expands Post-Training Capabilities: Introducing SFT and RL on Single-Host TPUs

MaxText has introduced new support for Supervised Fine-Tuning (SFT) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) on single-host TPU configurations, leveraging JAX and the Tunix library for high-performance model refinement. These features enable deve…

2026.04.25

New enhancements for merchant initiated transactions with the Google Pay API

Google has introduced enhancements to the Google Pay API to provide developers with greater flexibility and control over merchant-initiated transactions (MIT). The update includes new objects within the PaymentDataRequest to specifically…

2026.04.25

Scope of ViewModels in Compose Navigation 3

2026.04.24

The Modern Guide to Android SDK Development: Architecture & API Design (Part 1 of 3)

2026.04.24

Declarative Adaptive Layouts: Leveraging Nav3 Metadata for Multi-Pane UI

2026.04.24

Android’s New AI CLI: The Future of Agentic Development

2026.04.23

Building a deep research agent with koog: Giving your agent memory and real tools

2026.04.23

Component Service — A “Microservice” Architecture for Android

2026.04.23

What's new in the Jetpack Compose April '26 release

Posted by Meghan Mehta, Android Developer Relations Engineer Today, the Jetpack Compose April ‘26 release is stable. This release contains version 1.11 of core Compose modules (see the full BOM mapping), shared element debug tools, track…

2026.04.22

Streamline User Journeys with Verified Email via Credential Manager

Posted by Niharika Arora, Senior Developer Relations Engineer and Jean-Pierre Pralle, Product Manager, Credential Manager In the modern digital landscape, the first encounter a user has with an app is often the most critical. Yet, for de…

2026.04.22

Level up your development with Planning Mode and Next Edit Prediction in Android Studio Panda 4

Posted by Matt Dyor, Senior Product Manager Android Studio Panda 4 is now stable and ready for you to use in production. This release brings Planning Mode, Next Edit Prediction, and more, making it easier than ever to build high-quality …

2026.04.21

Kotlin Professional Certificate by JetBrains – Now on LinkedIn Learning

JetBrains has partnered with LinkedIn Learning to offer the Kotlin Professional Certificate. This is a structured learning path that covers the full scope of modern software development – from Kotlin essentials all the way to building fu…

2026.04.21

Helping Decision-Makers Say Yes to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)

This post was written by external contributors from Touchlab. KMP is a strategic platform In the current competitive landscape, the traditional mobile development model characterized by maintaining independent, duplicated codebases for i…

2026.04.20

Helping Decision-Makers Say Yes to Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP)

This post was written by external contributors from Touchlab. KMP is a strategic platform In the current competitive landscape, the traditional mobile development model characterized by maintaining independent, duplicated codebases for i…

2026.04.20

Experimental hybrid inference and new Gemini models for Android

Posted by Thomas Ezan, Senior Developer Relations Engineer If you are an Android developer looking to implement innovative AI features into your app, we recently launched powerful new updates: Hybrid inference, a new API for Firebase AI …

2026.04.17

The Fourth Beta of Android 17

Posted by Dan Galpin, Developer Relations Engineer Android 17 has reached beta 4, the last scheduled beta of this release cycle, a critical milestone for app compatibility and platform stability. Whether you're fine-tuning your app's use…

2026.04.16

Android CLI and skills: Build Android apps 3x faster using any agent

Posted by Adarsh Fernando, Group Product Manager and Esteban de la Canal, Senior Staff Software Engineer As Android developers, you have many choices when it comes to the agents, tools, and LLMs you use for app development. Whether you a…

2026.04.16

Introducing Koog Integration for Spring AI: Smarter Orchestration for Your Agents

Spring AI is the application-facing integration layer you may already use. Koog is the next layer up when you need agent orchestration. Spring AI already covers the chat model API, chat memory, and vector storage for RAG, and it provides…

2026.04.16

We rebuilt Flutter’s websites with Dart and Jaspr

2026.04.15

Come meet the Flutter core team on tour in 2026

2026.04.14

Flutter’s Material and Cupertino code freeze

2026.04.07

KotlinConf’26 Speakers: In Conversation With Lena Reinhard

“Over the last three to five years, many of the promises that drew people to tech have been called into question.” The tech industry has long promised opportunity, growth, and the chance to build things that reach millions of people. Tod…

2026.04.02

How Dart and Flutter are thinking about AI in 2026

2026.04.01

Kodee’s Kotlin Roundup: Kotlin 2.3.20, Interview With Josh Long, and More

March was a busy month for Kotlin, with a new language release, fresh tooling, ecosystem updates, and plenty of inspiration ahead of KotlinConf’26. From practical improvements to exciting steps in AI and multiplatform, there’s a lot wort…

2026.03.31

Amper 0.10 – JDK Provisioning, a Maven Converter, Custom Compiler Plugins, and More

Amper 0.10.0 is out, and it brings a variety of new features, such as JDK provisioning, custom Kotlin compiler plugins, a Maven-to-Amper converter, and numerous IDE improvements! Read on for all of the details, and see the release notes …

2026.03.31

20 apps in 20 days with Flutter and Antigravity

2026.03.05

Flutter & Dart’s 2026 roadmap

2026.02.24

Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0: Unified @Preview, Navigation 3, and Stable Compose Hot Reload

Compose Multiplatform 1.10.0 has been released! We’re continually developing our multiplatform APIs and expanding support for Jetpack libraries commonly used on Android. Here are the highlights of this release: Get Started with Compose M…

2026.01.13

The Journey to Compose Hot Reload 1.0.0

Compose Hot Reload has just been promoted to stable with our 1.0.0 release. We worked hard to build a technology that is easy to use and well-integrated into existing tools while also requiring zero configuration from users. The tool is …

2026.01.13

The Ultimate KMP Watchlist: Level Up Your Skills in 10 Talks

The best way to skip the “beginner mistakes” phase is to learn from the teams who have already solved them at scale. For Week 3 of KMP Level Up, we’ve curated the Top 10 KotlinConf talks that cover the full spectrum of adoption, from mas…

2025.11.24

Compose Multiplatform 1.9.0 Released: Compose Multiplatform for Web Goes Beta

Compose Multiplatform for web, powered by Wasm, is now in Beta! This major milestone shows that Compose Multiplatform for web is no longer just experimental, but ready for real-world use by early adopters. This is more than a technical s…

2025.09.22

What’s Next for Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform – August 2025 Update

This post outlines our priorities and the general direction for our Kotlin Multiplatform and Compose Multiplatform projects over the next six to twelve months. Our goals for Kotlin Multiplatform are closely aligned with those detailed in…

2025.08.25