--- title: An update on Android KTX | daily.dev description: Android KTX, the library of Kotlin extensions for Android launched in 2018, is being wound down. The reason is positive: Kotlin adoption has been so successful... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/an-update-on-android-ktx-qrwbrdtzx twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: An update on Android KTX | daily.dev og:description: Android KTX, the library of Kotlin extensions for Android launched in 2018, is being wound down. The reason is positive: Kotlin adoption has been so successful... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/an-update-on-android-ktx-qrwbrdtzx og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/QRWbRdTzx.png og:image:alt: An update on Android KTX og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # An update on Android KTX **[Jake Wharton](https://daily.dev/sources/jakewharton)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Android KTX, the library of Kotlin extensions for Android launched in 2018, is being wound down. The reason is positive: Kotlin adoption has been so successful that all KTX extensions have been merged directly into their respective main AndroidX libraries, making the separate -ktx modules obsolete. A full table lists every KTX library and the version in which it became empty/obsolete. A Lint feature request exists to warn developers when they declare a now-obsolete KTX dependency. Jake Wharton, who started the KTX libraries, also led the effort to eliminate them. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [Kotlin Weekly \#506](https://daily.dev/posts/kotlin-weekly-506-o3ecb9t6u) · Kotlin Weekly · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#android](https://daily.dev/tags/android), [#kotlin](https://daily.dev/tags/kotlin) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/an-update-on-android-ktx-qrwbrdtzx) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"An update on Android KTX","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/an-update-on-android-ktx-qrwbrdtzx","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/an-update-on-android-ktx-qrwbrdtzx"},"datePublished":"2026-07-05T07:13:18.576Z","dateModified":"2026-07-05T07:15:17.526Z","description":"Android KTX, the library of Kotlin extensions for Android launched in 2018, is being wound down. The reason is positive: Kotlin adoption has been so successful...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/783b359bc344ce8763770516ac461830?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/783b359bc344ce8763770516ac461830?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Jake Wharton","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Jake Wharton","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/logos/placeholder.jpg","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/jakewharton"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/an-update-on-android-ktx-qrwbrdtzx","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"android,kotlin","timeRequired":"PT3M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Jake Wharton","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/jakewharton"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"An update on Android KTX"}]} ```