Kendo UI 2025 Q4 Release Webinar

Step into the future of coding with the Kendo UI 2025 Q4 release, where AI isn’t just an assistant, it’s your development partner. With the groundbreaking Telerik Agentic UI Generator, you can prompt your way to fully functional interfaces in seconds...complete with layouts, styling, and bindings built on Telerik best practices. This release takes productivity to a new level with AI-driven components, smarter workflows, and AI-boosted (but not only) features, ensuring you move fast with confidence.

Kendo UI 2025 Q4 Highlights: 

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  Build and Deliver Faster with Context Aware AI:

  • Telerik Agentic UI Generator: Generate pages as quickly as possible with Telerik Agentic UI Generator. Use prompts to assemble layouts, grids, forms and styles based on Telerik and Kendo UI. Keep your IDE and workflow. The Agentic UI Generator is an evolution of the AI Coding Assistants currently available across all major Telerik and Kendo UI libraries giving developers a full productivity stack.
  • IDE-integrated AI Coding Assistants: Combined with the Agentic UI Generator, the AI Coding Assistants deliver context-aware, specialized code so teams can ship faster and do more.  
  • Prompt-controlled Data Grid: Empower users to effortlessly interact with the Data Grids using natural language, whether through the built-in prompt interface or a unified, app-wide chat experience.
  • New Inline AI Prompt: Ideal for enabling in-context interactions such as rewriting content, fixing errors and generating alternatives.
  • AI-Enhanced Chat UI: The component is redesigned to enable smarter, more natural interactions through streaming responses, text-to-speech, flexible response formats and built-in token tracking.
  • Redesigned AI Prompt: All key web UI libraries feature an enhanced AI Prompt that supports a new message template, speech-to-text and streaming buttons, improved accessibility and more.
  • Conversational prompts in Progress ThemeBuilder: You can now refine the AI-generated theme through natural, conversational feedback. Adjust colors, spacing, typography and accessibility in plain language, and see instant updates.
    

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  Streamline Development with New, Interactive Components:

  • Diagram in Kendo UI for Angular: Map relationships, workflows and structures with customizable shapes, flexible connections, and built-in layouts with the new Diagram component.
  • Speech-To-Text Button: Empower users to convert speech into text with a single click, making it easy to add voice input to forms, search bars, chat interfaces and other interactive scenarios.
  • Kendo UI for Angular Form: Easily build and organize complex forms with a structured, configurable layout. Group inputs, dropdowns, labels, hints, error messages, and more to deliver clear, consistent and user-friendly forms.

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  Unlock Robust Features in Your Favorite Components:

  • Stacked data layout mode in Data Grids: Deliver a consistent, user-friendly experience across devices with an adaptive, card-like display optimized for both desktop and mobile.
  • Workflow diagram in Kendo UI for jQuery: Specialized shape types allow you to represent algorithms, tasks and events. While these shapes are tailored for workflows, they’re versatile enough for any diagram scenario.
  • PDF Viewer enhancements: Text highlight, free text annotations, and form filling for completing PDF forms directly within your app are added to Kendo UI for Angular.
  • Responsive Form layout in Angular and React: Build forms that automatically adapt their columns, spacing and field arrangements across breakpoints to deliver a seamless user experience on any screen size.
  • Dark Mode in Progress ThemeBuilder: Switch to the new Dark mode for a more comfortable experience in lowlight setups.

Alyssa Nicoll
Developer Advocate & GDE, Progress

Alyssa Nicoll is a technologist, author and Google Developer Expert who helps developers build smarter and faster. As Senior Developer Advocate for Telerik and Kendo UI, Alyssa draws on years of experience in modern web, mobile and cloud development to guide teams toward practical, AI-powered productivity.

Kathryn Grayson Nanz
Developer Advocate for KendoReact, Progress

Kathryn Grayson Nanz is a developer advocate at Progress with a passion for React, UI and design and sharing with the community. She started her career as a graphic designer and was told by her Creative Director to never let anyone find out she could code because she’d be stuck doing it forever. She ignored his warning and has never been happier. You can find her writing, blogging, streaming and tweeting about React, design, UI and more.