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title: "The Firebase Blog (Page 1 — Latest Posts)"
description: "News, tutorials, and updates from the Firebase team. Showing the 10 most recent posts out of 623 total."
last_updated: "2026-10-08"
canonical_url: "https://firebase.blog/"
---

# The Firebase Blog

> News, tutorials, and updates from the Firebase team. **Note:** This homepage is a paged view showing only the **10 most recent posts** (Page 1 of 63, 623 posts total). For the complete chronological index of all blog posts, fetch [`/llms.txt`](https://firebase.blog/llms.txt).

- **Homepage:** https://firebase.blog/
- **Full LLM Post Index (`llms.txt` — all 623 posts):** [https://firebase.blog/llms.txt](https://firebase.blog/llms.txt)
- **RSS Feed:** [https://firebase.blog/rss.xml](https://firebase.blog/rss.xml)

## Featured Post (1 of 623)

### [Building an iOS app in 6 hours with Firebase and Antigravity](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/build-ios-app-firebase-antigravity.md)

> We built a production-ready iOS app with Firebase, including authentication, Firestore, Cloud Messaging, Cloud Functions and App Check, in just six hours using Google's Antigravity coding agent.

- **Published:** October 8, 2026 (2026-10-08)
- **Authors:** Marina Coelho (Developer Relations Engineer), Tim Condon (Vapor Core Team)
- **Categories:** Agent Skills, MCP, Firestore, Authentication, Cloud Functions, Cloud Messaging, App Check, Antigravity, Apple
- **Links:** [Markdown (2026/09/build-ios-app-firebase-antigravity.md)](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/build-ios-app-firebase-antigravity.md) | [HTML](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/build-ios-app-firebase-antigravity)

## Recent Posts (2–10 of 623)

### [Google Analytics for Firebase iOS SDK outage on September 28, 2026](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/10/firebase-analytics-outage.md)

> Google's response to the Firebase iOS SDK outage on September 28, 2026.

- **Published:** October 2, 2026 (2026-10-02)
- **Authors:** Jerome Mourits (Engineering Manager), Don Kahn (Product Manager)
- **Categories:** Google Analytics, Firebase, iOS
- **Links:** [Markdown (2026/10/firebase-analytics-outage.md)](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/10/firebase-analytics-outage.md) | [HTML](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/10/firebase-analytics-outage)

### [The Firebase plugin is now available in Codex](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/firebase-plugin-for-codex.md)

> The Firebase agent plugin provides access to Firebase agent skills, the Firebase MCP server, and the Firebase CLI, giving Codex the ability to build Firebase-powered apps with less friction.

- **Published:** September 28, 2026 (2026-09-28)
- **Authors:** Sumit Chandel (Developer Advocate)
- **Categories:** Agent Skills, MCP, Firebase CLI, Firestore, Authentication, Security Rules
- **Links:** [Markdown (2026/09/firebase-plugin-for-codex.md)](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/firebase-plugin-for-codex.md) | [HTML](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/firebase-plugin-for-codex)

### [New regions and networks: Firebase Phone Number Verification adds more networks](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/firebase-pnv-more-networks.md)

- **Published:** September 28, 2026 (2026-09-28)
- **Authors:** Micah Baker (Senior Product Manager)
- **Categories:** Launch, Authentication, Phone Number Verification, Android
- **Links:** [Markdown (2026/09/firebase-pnv-more-networks.md)](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/firebase-pnv-more-networks.md) | [HTML](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/firebase-pnv-more-networks)

### [Introducing Firebase spend caps](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/firebase-spend-caps.md)

> Spend caps are designed to act as a circuit breaker for services like the Gemini API and Cloud Functions, reducing the risk of a financial surprise from a simple coding error or an unexpected spike in traffic.

- **Published:** September 14, 2026 (2026-09-14)
- **Authors:** Yvonne Monterroso (Product Manager)
- **Categories:** Billing, AI Logic, Cloud Functions, App Hosting
- **Links:** [Markdown (2026/09/firebase-spend-caps.md)](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/firebase-spend-caps.md) | [HTML](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/firebase-spend-caps)

### [5 ways to use Gemini text-to-speech (TTS) in your apps with Firebase AI Logic](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/ai-logic-text-to-speech.md)

- **Published:** September 9, 2026 (2026-09-09)
- **Authors:** Ankita Saxena (Product Manager)
- **Categories:** AI Logic, AI, Gemini
- **Links:** [Markdown (2026/09/ai-logic-text-to-speech.md)](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/ai-logic-text-to-speech.md) | [HTML](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/ai-logic-text-to-speech)

### [Authentication made easy: Building a secure e-commerce shopping cart with Firebase](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/secure-shopping-cart-firebase.md)

- **Published:** September 1, 2026 (2026-09-01)
- **Authors:** Karl Weinmeister (Director, Developer Relations)
- **Categories:** Authentication, Firestore, Security Rules, Cloud Run, Web
- **Links:** [Markdown (2026/09/secure-shopping-cart-firebase.md)](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/secure-shopping-cart-firebase.md) | [HTML](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/09/secure-shopping-cart-firebase)

### [3 ways to optimize Firebase Remote Config fetch usage](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/08/optimize-remote-config-usage.md)

> Reduce network fetches, battery consumption and usage costs

- **Published:** August 31, 2026 (2026-08-31)
- **Authors:** Sumit Chandel (Developer Advocate), Siddhant Jain (Product Manager)
- **Categories:** Remote Config, Best Practices
- **Links:** [Markdown (2026/08/optimize-remote-config-usage.md)](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/08/optimize-remote-config-usage.md) | [HTML](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/08/optimize-remote-config-usage)

### [Eval-driven development: How we build better agent skills for Firebase](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/08/eval-driven-development-agent-skills.md)

> How we build better agent skills for Firebase

- **Published:** August 11, 2026 (2026-08-11)
- **Authors:** Charlotte Liang (Product Manager)
- **Categories:** Agent Skills, AI, Best Practices
- **Links:** [Markdown (2026/08/eval-driven-development-agent-skills.md)](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/08/eval-driven-development-agent-skills.md) | [HTML](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/08/eval-driven-development-agent-skills)

### [Triple-layer security for Firebase web apps](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/07/three-layer-security.md)

- **Published:** July 30, 2026 (2026-07-30)
- **Authors:** Roger Martinez
- **Categories:** Security Rules, App Check, Web, Firestore, Cloud Functions
- **Links:** [Markdown (2026/07/three-layer-security.md)](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/07/three-layer-security.md) | [HTML](https://firebase.blog/posts/2026/07/three-layer-security)

> **Looking for older posts?** This page only includes the 10 newest posts. Browse the complete list of all 623 posts in [`/llms.txt`](https://firebase.blog/llms.txt).

## Featured Categories

- [Admin SDK](https://firebase.blog/category/admin-sdk): Access Firebase services from privileged server environments to perform administrative tasks.
- [AI Logic](https://firebase.blog/category/ai-logic): Build generative AI features directly into your mobile and web apps
- [Android](https://firebase.blog/category/android)
- [App Hosting](https://firebase.blog/category/app-hosting): Build and deploy modern, full-stack web apps
- [App Quality](https://firebase.blog/category/app-quality)
- [Authentication](https://firebase.blog/category/authentication): Add an end-to-end identity solution to your app for easy user authentication, sign-in, and onboarding in just a few lines of code.
- [Cloud Functions](https://firebase.blog/category/cloud-functions): Write and run app logic server-side without needing to set up your own server.
- [Cloud Messaging](https://firebase.blog/category/cloud-messaging): Get infrastructure to reliably send and receive push messages between your server and devices, across platforms at no cost.
- [Cloud Storage](https://firebase.blog/category/cloud-storage): A powerful, simple, and cost-effective object storage service built for developer-focused user content and app data.
- [Crashlytics](https://firebase.blog/category/crashlytics): Understand how stability is impacting key business metrics like revenue and engagement.
- [Emulator Suite](https://firebase.blog/category/emulator-suite): A set of advanced local development tools that lets you build and test apps locally using Firebase services.
- [Extensions](https://firebase.blog/category/extensions): Deploy functionality to your app quickly using pre-packaged solutions.
- [Firebase CLI](https://firebase.blog/category/firebase-cli): Test, manage, and deploy your Firebase project from the command line.
- [Firebase Stories](https://firebase.blog/category/firebase-stories): A series highlighting developers in the community who are using Firebase in their apps.
- [Firebase Studio](https://firebase.blog/category/firebase-studio): Firebase Studio is an agentic cloud-based development environment that helps you build and ship production-quality full-stack AI apps, including APIs, backends, frontends, mobile, and more.
- [Firebase Summit](https://firebase.blog/category/firebase-summit): Our annual developer conference! It's a great opportunity to learn about Firebase products, provide feedback to the Firebase team, and connect with the Firebase developer community.
- [Firestore](https://firebase.blog/category/firestore): Build serverless, secure apps at global scale. Store app data in the cloud, sync data across online and offline devices, and retrieve it with expressive queries.
- [Flutter](https://firebase.blog/category/flutter): Google's UI toolkit for building beautiful, natively compiled applications for mobile, web, desktop, and embedded devices from a single codebase.
- [Games](https://firebase.blog/category/games)
- [Gemini](https://firebase.blog/category/gemini): Google's most capable family of multimodal AI models, built to be multimodal from the ground up.
- [Genkit](https://firebase.blog/category/genkit): An open-source framework that helps you build, deploy, and monitor production-ready AI-powered applications.
- [Google Analytics](https://firebase.blog/category/google-analytics): Monitor app usage and gain insight into who your users are, and what actions they're taking inside your app.
- [Google I/O](https://firebase.blog/category/google-io): Google's yearly developer conference.
- [Hosting](https://firebase.blog/category/hosting): Deploy fast-loading, secure websites that are backed by a global CDN without all of the hassle.
- [iOS](https://firebase.blog/category/ios)
- [JavaScript](https://firebase.blog/category/javascript)
- [Jetpack](https://firebase.blog/category/jetpack)
- [Machine Learning](https://firebase.blog/category/machine-learning)
- [Performance Monitoring](https://firebase.blog/category/performance-monitoring): Get insight into your app's performance and address issues quickly.
- [Realtime Database](https://firebase.blog/category/realtime-database): Build serverless apps by storing and syncing JSON data between your users in near-realtime, on or offline, with strong user-based security.
- [Remote Config](https://firebase.blog/category/remote-config): Customize and experiment with app behavior using server-side configuration parameters & feature flags
- [Security Rules](https://firebase.blog/category/security-rules): Flexible, extensible rules to secure your data in Cloud Firestore, Firebase Realtime Database, and Cloud Storage.
- [SQL Connect](https://firebase.blog/category/sql-connect): Create secure and scalable apps with Cloud SQL for PostgreSQL and type-safe mobile and web SDKs.
- [Swift](https://firebase.blog/category/swift)
- [Test Lab](https://firebase.blog/category/test-lab): A cloud-based app-testing infrastructure that lets you test your app on a wide range of devices and configurations.
- [Web](https://firebase.blog/category/web)