Kotlin

Evidence (9)

• 7Hacker News·9/24/2026product_launch
  F-Droid 2.0 launches with redesigned app discovery and search

  F-Droid has released version 2.0, a major redesign of its official Android app and its biggest update in 10 years. The new release adds a modern interface, simplified navigation, expanded categories, and improved search, with key parts rewritten in Kotlin Compose.

• 7InfoQ·9/20/2026framework_update
  Google Releases Kotlin ADK 1.0 with Android On-Device AI Support

  Google has released Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin 1.0 as a production-ready framework for building AI agents on Kotlin, Android, and JVM/server apps. The update brings Kotlin to feature parity with the Python and Java versions, while adding Android-specific support for on-device and hybrid AI use cases.

• 5InfoQ·9/16/2026research
  Typed Domain Grounding for LLM-Generated DSLs

  The article presents Typed Domain Grounding, a method for reducing hallucinations when language models generate domain-specific languages by embedding them in mainstream typed languages. It discusses kUML benchmarks and an infrastructure-as-code example, showing how compiler checks and generate-compile-repair loops can improve reliability.

• 7Hacker News·9/10/2026framework_update
  Shopify moves mobile apps back to native code

  Shopify is shifting its mobile apps from React Native back to separate Swift and Kotlin codebases. The company says AI coding agents have reduced the implementation and maintenance burden that previously made React Native the preferred choice, while its React Native libraries will be maintained or retired on different timelines.

• 5InfoQ·8/3/2026framework_update
  Embabel Agent Framework Reaches 1.0

  Embabel has released version 1.0 of its Java-based agent framework. Built on Spring AI, it lets Java and Kotlin developers define agents as typed domain objects and combine model-driven planning with predefined state machines for workflow control.

• 5InfoQ·7/27/2026framework_update
  Clean Architecture for Portable Serverless Apps

  Elena van Engelen explains how to reduce serverless vendor lock-in while keeping native cloud capabilities. She demonstrates structuring FaaS applications with Clean Architecture, Spring Cloud Function, and Gradle modules, then shows Kotlin services deployed across AWS and Azure using Terraform CDK.

• 7Hacker News·7/17/2026open_source
  Minikotlin compiles Kotlin to WebAssembly in the browser

  Minikotlin is a Kotlin compiler written in C that runs entirely in a browser tab and emits WebAssembly GC bytecode directly. It supports a broad subset of Kotlin features, including classes, inheritance, null safety, generics, coroutines, and standard-library helpers, with end-to-end tests and no external toolchain required.

• 4InfoQ·7/16/2026open_source
  Ruth Linehan on Rust's performance advantages in caching services

  Ruth Linehan describes migrating high-performance caching services from Kotlin to Rust and how the move challenged assumptions about delivery speed and engineering overhead. She highlights Rust's borrow checker, compile-time safety, and profiling tools such as Criterion and flamegraphs for improving concurrent code paths.

• 5The New Stack·6/29/2026framework_update
  JetBrains Ends Kotlin Notebook Support

  JetBrains will discontinue Kotlin Notebook and unbundle it from IntelliJ IDEA starting with version 2026.2, then stop publishing compatible updates beyond 2026.3. The company says adoption was lower than expected and points to changing developer workflows and AI tools, while Jupyter usage remains strong across Python and AI projects.