Google released Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin 1.0, a production-ready framework that brings Kotlin to feature parity with Google's ADK for Python and Java while adding Android-specific capabi…
Firebase AI Logic now runs developer-written Cloud Functions before and after every Gemini generateContent request, per Firebase's Sept. 10, 2026 release note. The beforeGenerateContent and afterGener…
A developer published a guide showing how to call Google's Gemini models directly from an Angular browser app using Firebase AI Logic, the successor to Vertex AI in Firebase, without building a custom…
Google rebranded Vertex AI in Firebase to Firebase AI Logic in May 2025, expanding the client-side SDK to support both the Gemini Developer API and the enterprise Agent Platform backend. The change in…
Google released ADK for Kotlin 1.0 on September 9, 2026, the first general availability version of its agent framework for Kotlin and Android, headlined by compile-time function calling via Kotlin Sym…
Google's Firebase launched spend caps in Public Preview on Sept. 14, 2026, pausing Firebase AI Logic, Cloud Functions for Firebase and Firebase App Hosting at 100% of a project's budget, according to …
Google announced the 1.0 general availability of the Agent Development Kit (ADK) for Kotlin, achieving full feature parity with ADK 1.0 Core and adding Android-first on-device extensions such as LiteR…
A new tutorial by a developer on Dev.to demonstrates building real-time client-side text-to-speech in Angular 22 using Firebase AI Logic and the Gemini model, eliminating custom backend code and autom…
Google killed three Imagen 4 API endpoints on August 17, 2026, breaking production apps that call generate_images() with model IDs imagen-4.0-generate-001, imagen-4.0-fast-generate-001, or imagen-4.0-…
Firebase's JavaScript SDK deprecated VertexAIBackend in version 12.17.0, released July 30, 2026, replacing it with AgentPlatformBackend, which defaults to the global region instead of us-central1, a b…
Google Cloud announced new spend caps on budgets that pause supported services when a cap is reached, and they work with Firebase services including Cloud Functions for Firebase, Firebase AI Logic, Fi…
Google announced that Android apps can integrate with the platform's intelligence system using AppFunctions, enabling voice and text commands to perform tasks like expense tracking, itinerary manageme…
A developer benchmarked Gemini 2.5 Flash, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, and Gemma 4 26B on twelve production prompts for an iOS reading app, using Melville's 'Whiteness of the Whale' as a stress test. Gemini…
Firebase AI Logic now integrates Gemini cloud models into Apple's Foundation Models framework via the public LanguageModel protocol introduced at WWDC 2026, targeting iOS 27, macOS 27, iPadOS 27, and …
Google at I/O 2026 integrated Firebase setup directly into Antigravity 2.0 and Android Studio, eliminating the need to leave code for the Firebase console. Agent Skills for Firebase expanded from web-…
Google is shutting down all Imagen models on Firebase AI Logic on June 24, 2026, and on Vertex AI on August 17, 2026, requiring developers to migrate to the Gemini Image model (gemini-2.5-flash-image)…
Google announced at I/O 2026 that developers can now build AI-powered features directly into web applications using Chrome's built-in AI APIs, eliminating cloud costs and keeping user data on-device. …