I Ditched Google ADK for LangGraph

LangGraph is by far the best framework I've used for creating AI Agents. The framework provides complete control over the execution of individual Agents and the state that flows through them, which you frankly don't get from the Google Agent Development Kit (ADK). Jumping off from the 5-Day AI Agents Intensive Course with Google on Kaggle, I built the prototype for Ikka, a Zimbabwean news aggregation website using the Google ADK. The trouble with the Google framework began when I needed to implement looping for my editor Agent. The documentation for the ADK is very dense and, at the time, did not provide a clear way of mixing sequential and looping execution. I spent hours over many weekends trying to find information on how to do certain things, such as logging the state of my Agents after every call or getting my project to run as a script not tied to Google Cloud. The documentation seemed more focused on explaining how the individual parts were linked together than on giving…