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Experimental hybrid inference and new Gemini models for Android

calendar_today April 17, 2026 person Android Developers (noreply@blogger.com) domain android

Posted by Thomas Ezan, Senior Developer Relations Engineer If you are an Android developer looking to implement innovative AI features into your app, we recently launched powerful new updates: Hybrid inference, a new API for Firebase AI Logic to leverage both on-device and Cloud inference, and support for new Gemini models including the latest Nano Banana models for image generation. Let’s jump in! Experiment with hybrid inference With the new Firebase API for hybrid inference , we implemented a simple rule-based routing approach as an initial solution to let you use both on-device and cloud…

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