Firebase Studio is a web-based workspace for building full-stack apps with AI agents. An App Prototyping agent can create a new application from natural language, mockups, drawing tools, and screenshots, while the built-in assistant helps with coding, debugging, testing, refactoring, explaining, and documenting code. The workspace includes cloud emulators, built-in web previews, and Android emulators, and projects can be published to Firebase App Hosting with a few clicks. During preview, three workspaces are available at no cost, and members of the Google Developer Program get up to 30. Firebase Studio is being sunset on March 22, 2027, and new workspaces can no longer be created.
Firebase Studio was built for developers and teams who want to start coding from a browser instead of configuring a local machine. Solo builders used it to prototype ideas, mobile developers tested apps in emulators, and small teams shared workspaces so several people could contribute to the same project at once. Non-coders could take part by giving feedback on a shared preview URL. Existing users should plan their move, since Google points people to Google AI Studio or Google Antigravity to continue building, and migration paths are documented.
Typical workflows included importing an existing repository from GitHub, GitLab, or Bitbucket and running it with support for most tech stacks, then customizing the environment with Nix. A developer could describe an app in plain language, review the generated prototype, and refine it with the assistant. Teams tested API endpoints and backends with extensions from the Open VSX Registry, shared a preview link with early testers, and monitored usage after launch. Production apps could be deployed to Firebase Hosting, Cloud Run, or custom infrastructure, which kept control of the deployment approach in the team's hands.
