Lightning Talk: Beyond Good Enough: Why We Want a Kotlin API and SDK

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Embrace wants an idiomatic Kotlin path because Java APIs are merely workable on Android and break for Kotlin Multiplatform and fragile mobile runtimes. A pure Kotlin API shim already wraps the Java SDK in the open-telemetry-kotlin and Embrace repos so Android apps get Kotlin-style tracers and spans today; three engineers are productionizing it internally. Plan is an incremental rollout toward a mobile-first Kotlin native SDK that handles intermittent networks, process death, context models, and KMP use cases.

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1. 0:00Kotlin-first observability intro
2. 1:02Java SDK limits on Android
3. 3:12Kotlin multiplatform needs native
4. 5:19Mobile context challenges
5. 6:21Fragile mobile runtimes
6. 7:26Java SDK paper cuts
7. 8:31Kotlin API solution
8. 9:58Kotlin-native SDK need
9. 12:48Summary and call

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