Pi pod, an open-source project hosted at github.com/pi-pod/pipod, lets users run pi coding agent sessions in isolated "pods" on their own servers rather than through hosted sandboxes or per-token agno…
JetBrains released the State of Kotlin in 2026 report, finding that 93% of surveyed Kotlin developers use at least one AI coding tool and 81% already use or are likely to try AI coding agents. An equa…
JetBrains introduced an optional "separate compilation" scheme for Kotlin Multiplatform in Kotlin 2.5.0-Beta1, enabled by setting kotlin.kmp.separateCompilation=true in gradle.properties. The experime…
A developer outlines a multi-stage workflow for using Gemini in Android Studio and AI coding agents to migrate legacy Android codebases from RxJava and XML Views to Kotlin Coroutines, StateFlow, and J…
A developer published a tutorial for building an offline-first Kotlin/Android control layer for robotics and Physical AI systems, using Jetpack Compose, ViewModel/Flow, and a repository pattern to sit…
A developer published a tutorial showing how to build a Kotlin/Jetpack Compose diagnostics dashboard for robotics and Physical AI systems, using StateFlow and a ViewModel/Repository architecture to st…
A developer published a tutorial showing how to build a Kotlin/Android operator layer for robotics, XR, and edge-AI systems that pairs vision-language-action models with bounded, lifecycle-aware state…
A developer built a local MCP server in Kotlin/JVM using Robolectric that renders Android XML/View layouts and returns both a PNG and the real View tree from the same post-layout pass, so a coding age…
Rod Johnson, creator of Spring, will introduce Embabel, a new Kotlin-built agent framework for Java and Kotlin developers, at a vJUG Connect and London Java Community event on 9 April at 6:45pm GMT+1,…
A developer published a guide on optimizing NVIDIA TensorRT models for Physical AI pipelines spanning smart glasses, Flutter/Kotlin apps, NVIDIA Jetson, and ROS 2/Isaac ROS. The writeup recommends end…
A developer has released Vobiz VoIP, a native Kotlin Android dialer that places and receives PSTN calls through the Vobiz platform using SIP over secure WebSocket signaling and WebRTC audio. The app, …
Google released Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin 1.0, a production-ready framework that brings Kotlin to feature parity with Google's ADK for Python and Java while adding Android-specific capabi…
A software developer with more than a decade of professional experience argues that reading and understanding AI-generated code is not sufficient, because developers lack the domain and ecosystem expe…
Shopify is abandoning React Native to rewrite its flagship mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin, a reversal of its 2020 and 2025 commitments to the cross-platform framework, Head of Mobile Mustafa Ali anno…
Shopify is moving its flagship Shop app and other mobile apps from React Native back to native Swift and Kotlin, citing internal AI coding agents that can port features between iOS and Android close t…
Shopify migrated its Shop mobile app from React Native to native Swift and Kotlin in twelve weeks, citing coding agents as the reason the cost of maintaining separate implementations changed, accordin…
A new Java and Kotlin Model Context Protocol server runtime called Tachyon has been released, built on Netty and conformance-tested against MCP versions 2025-11-25 and 2026-07-28. Tachyon runs synchro…
Shopify is moving its mobile apps from a shared React Native codebase back to fully native Swift and Kotlin, writing each app separately for iOS and Android. The company credits AI coding agents with …
Shopify is rebuilding its mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin, six years after moving them to React Native, with its engineering blog crediting coding agents for cutting the cost of maintaining two platfo…
Shopify is abandoning React Native six years after going "all-in" on the Meta-developed framework, rewriting its mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin using a new AI-powered system. Director of Engineering …