Wiring ADK Kotlin agents in an Android application

📅 May 21, 2026 — by Guillaume Laforge

With the launch of ADK for Kotlin, it means you can power up your Android applications with agents.

My colleague Jolanda Verhoef built an Android app that integrates an ADK agent written in Kotlin. It’s an app with a chat interface that lets you ask fun facts about anything you want.

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You can check out the video of the Google I/O session that introduced ADK for Kotlin & Android, you’ll find another example agent in the demo near the end of the session.

Gradle vs Maven and Gradle in Kotlin or Groovy

📅 November 27, 2017 — by Guillaume Laforge

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Once in a while, when talking about Gradle with developers, at conferences or within the Groovy community (but with the wider Java community as well), I hear questions about Gradle. In particular Gradle vs Maven, or whether developers adopt the Kotlin DSL for Gradle builds.

In the past, I blogged several times about using BigQuery and the Github dataset to analyze open source projects hosted on Github, by running some SQL queries against that dataset. You might want to have a look at this past article on some Gradle analysis with BigQuery. Considering those questions popped up recently, I decided to do a quick run through those questions with some simple queries.