Name: ⚡ Lightning Talk: Beyond Good Enough: Why We Want a Kotlin API and SDK - Hanson Ho, Embrace
Start: 2025-06-26T11:55:00-0600
End: 2025-06-26T12:10:00-0600

June 26, 2025
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Thursday June 26, 2025 11:55am - 12:10pm MDT

OTel Room

The OTel Java API, SDK, and ecosystem are perfectly adequate for Android developer to get OTel instrumentation into their apps. But for a host of reasons, the match is not perfect, especially for developers who only write in Kotlin, which is the recommended development language for Android by Google, not the least of which is the emergence of Kotlin Multiple Platform (KMP) as a means to share code between Android, iOS, and many other platforms.

This session will outline the reasons why we at Embrace is trying to kick-start the development of a pure Kotlin ecosystem for OTel, starting with an API and SDK implementation, and how we are doing it in a way where mobile developers can get value incrementally without having to wait until every aspect is fully built out.

We want OTel to feel natural and idiomatic for Android developers, and this is the first step towards that end.

Speakers

Hanson Ho

Android Architect, Embrace

Hanson's niche is mobile observability and performance, an odd passion he developed while working at Twitter as Android Performance Tech Lead. He is now at Embrace, hoping to bring true observability 2.0 to mobile apps everywhere, one device at a time.

Thursday June 26, 2025 11:55am - 12:10pm MDT
OTel Room

OTel Community Day, Extending and Customizing OpenTelemetry

Level Intermediate

OpenObservabilityCon + OTel Community Day 2025

Hanson Ho

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