
Gemini 4 Hydrogen Reaches Firebase AI Logic and Rejects Old Settings
Remove thinkingBudget and explicit caching before switching a Firebase AI Logic app to Gemini 4 Hydrogen, or its requests fail with a 400 error.
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Remove thinkingBudget and explicit caching before switching a Firebase AI Logic app to Gemini 4 Hydrogen, or its requests fail with a 400 error.

Find released app versions that lack App Check before Nov. 2, or push enforcement back to Jan. 21 in the console. Unverified Gemini calls will fail.

Firebase's AI Studio integration now sets up AI Logic and App Check for Android apps, so generated apps call Gemini without an exposed API key.

Firebase AI Logic now runs developer-written Cloud Functions before and after every Gemini request, letting teams moderate, cap or redact calls server-side.

Firebase's new spend caps pause AI Logic, Functions and App Hosting at 100% of budget, but reporting lag means overages before the pause still bill in full.

Firebase's Imagen shutdown, pushed back once already, hits today. The replacement Google pointed everyone to already has its own October expiration date.

Firebase's JS SDK deprecates VertexAIBackend for AgentPlatformBackend, and the new class defaults to global instead of us-central1.

Firebase AI Logic now supports Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, cheaper than 3.5 Flash, but Google shipped no flagship model alongside them.

Firebase's console setup flow for AI Logic now turns on App Check automatically, closing off a common way developers shipped apps with an open Gemini API proxy.

Apple opened Foundation Models to cloud AI providers at WWDC 2026. Firebase AI Logic is now the Gemini entry point for iOS 27, in preview.

All Imagen models in Firebase AI Logic shut down June 24. Apps still calling them are broken. Here's the migration path to Gemini's Nano Banana models.

Firebase's May 2026 Google I/O drop: Antigravity 2.0 and Android Studio setup, Agent Skills for mobile, new AI Logic models, and Crashlytics for web.