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MARCH 30, 2026 / AI
Google has released version 1.0.0 of the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Java, introducing powerful new features like Google Maps grounding, built-in URL fetching, and a standardized Agent2Agent protocol for cross-framework collaboration. The update enhances agent control through a new "App" and "Plugin" architecture, which allows for global logging, automated context window management via event compaction, and "Human-in-the-Loop" workflows for action confirmations. Additionally, the release provides robust session and memory services using Google Cloud integrations like Firestore and Vertex AI to manage long-term state and large data artifacts.
JULY 16, 2025 / Gemini
The updated Agent Development Kit (ADK) simplifies and accelerates the process of building AI agents by providing the CLI with a deep, cost-effective understanding of the ADK framework, allowing developers to quickly ideate, generate, test, and improve functional agents through conversational prompts, eliminating friction and keeping them in a productive "flow" state.
MAY 20, 2025 / Cloud
Updates to Google's agent technologies include the Agent Development Kit (ADK) with new Python and Java versions, an improved Agent Engine UI for management, and enhancements to the Agent2Agent (A2A) protocol for better agent communication and security.
APRIL 9, 2025 / AI
The Agent Development Kit (ADK), an open-source framework from Google designed to simplify the development of multi-agent systems, providing tools for building, interacting, evaluating, and deploying agents.
