Installing ADK

PythonJava

Create & activate virtual environment

We recommend creating a virtual Python environment using venv:

python -m venv .venv

Now, you can activate the virtual environment using the appropriate command for your operating system and environment:

# Mac / Linux
source .venv/bin/activate

# Windows CMD:
.venv\Scripts\activate.bat

# Windows PowerShell:
.venv\Scripts\Activate.ps1

Install ADK

pip install google-adk

(Optional) Verify your installation:

pip show google-adk

You can either use maven or gradle to add the google-adk and google-adk-dev package.

google-adk is the core Java ADK library. Java ADK also comes with a pluggable example SpringBoot server to run your agents seamlessly. This optional package is present as part of google-adk-dev.

If you are using maven, add the following to your pom.xml:

pom.xml

<dependencies>
  <!-- The ADK Core dependency -->
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.adk</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-adk</artifactId>
    <version>0.2.0</version>
  </dependency>

  <!-- The ADK Dev Web UI to debug your agent (Optional) -->
  <dependency>
    <groupId>com.google.adk</groupId>
    <artifactId>google-adk-dev</artifactId>
    <version>0.2.0</version>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

<build>
  <plugins>
    <plugin>
      <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
      <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
      <version>3.14.0</version>
      <configuration>
        <compilerArgs>
          <arg>-parameters</arg>
        </compilerArgs>
      </configuration>
    </plugin>
  </plugins>
</build>

Here's a complete pom.xml file for reference.

If you are using gradle, add the dependency to your build.gradle:

build.gradle

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.google.adk:google-adk:0.2.0'
    implementation 'com.google.adk:google-adk-dev:0.2.0'
}

You should also configure Gradle to pass -parameters to javac. (Alternatively, use @Schema(name = "...")).

Next steps

• Try creating your first agent with the Quickstart