Firebase Studio

Firebase Studio is an app creation tool. A web-based full-stack development workspace that pairs Gemini assistance with app prototyping agents, live previews, shared workspaces, and one-click Firebase deployment.

Firebase Studio is a web-based development workspace for full-stack applications, built around Gemini assistance and full-fidelity previews. The whole environment lives in a browser tab, so a developer can move from opening the page to running code without installing a local toolchain or waiting on setup. Environments can be customized with Nix, which gives teams a way to define reproducible dependencies per workspace. Getting started is flexible. Existing repositories can be imported from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or a local machine, and most tech stacks are supported. New projects can come from the App Prototyping agent, which turns natural language prompts, mockups, drawing tools, and screenshots into a working application, or from a catalog of framework and language templates. Gemini handles coding, debugging, testing, refactoring, explaining, and documenting tasks, and it interacts with the codebase and takes actions on the developer's behalf. The built-in model can be swapped for a preferred one. The workspace is as much a collaboration surface as an editor. Early testers can be handed a URL to preview the app and leave feedback, and multiple team members can share a workspace and contribute to the same project simultaneously, including people who do not write code. The Open VSX Registry brings thousands of extensions for testing and optimizing API endpoints and backends while building. Built-in web previews and Android emulators show the app roughly as users will see it. Deployment is handled from the same interface. Apps can be published to Firebase App Hosting in a few clicks with usage and behavior monitoring attached, or shipped to Firebase Hosting, Cloud Run, or custom infrastructure for full control over the delivery approach. The preview period offers three workspaces at no cost, with up to 30 for Google Developer Program members, which makes it a low-risk way to try the workflow. It sits closest to browser IDEs and agent-first app builders: the draw is the combination of hosted previews, Firebase deployment, and a prototyping agent in one place, while teams that need deep offline work or heavy native tooling will still notice the browser boundary.