Devs Rejoice, Google’s New Firebase Studio Helps Build Agentic AI Apps

At the Google Cloud Next Conference 2025 in Las Vegas, the company announced a new Firebase Studio, which aims to refine its mobile development platform, Firebase, into an end-to-end platform to accelerate the complete application lifecycle.

Firebase Studio is a cloud-based agentic development environment powered by Gemini. It includes everything a developer needs to create and publish production-ready AI apps quickly. The new offering aims to mix the capabilities of Gemini, Genkit, and Project IDX with Firebase services to provide a native agentic experience.

Developers can choose from over 60 pre-built templates or use the App Prototyping agent, which assists in designing the app, including the UI, API schema, and AI flows. The app can be opened inside a Firebase Studio coding workspace with a single click and no additional setup. This should allow refining the architecture and tweaking features to prepare for deployment.

Genkit now adds early support for Python and expanded support for Go, making it easier to build through Firebase Studio using the templates.

The coding workspaces will also let developers debug, test (using the app testing agent), document the mode, enhance codebases from repositories like GitHub, and customise all aspects of the app. 

Gemini Code Assist agents are also available in early access from Firebase Studio. Examples include the migration agent, which helps migrate code between versions of Java, and an AI testing agent to run adversarial tests against AI models to find and fix potentially harmful outputs. The code documentation agent will chat with a Wiki-style knowledge base about the codebase.

The Firebase Studio is available to everyone in the preview. Three coding workspaces are free during the preview phase, and members of the Google Developer Program get up to 30 workspaces.