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Generate beautiful visuals in your Android apps with Imagen 3 through Vertex AI in Firebase

26 April 2025

Posted by Thomas Ezan Sr. – Android Developer Relation Engineer (@lethargicpanda)

Imagen 3, our most superior picture era mannequin, is now accessible by means of Vertex AI in Firebase, making it even simpler to combine it to your Android apps.

Designed to generate well-composed photos with distinctive particulars, diminished artifacts, and wealthy lighting, Imagen 3 represents a major leap ahead in picture era capabilities.

Hot air balloons float over a scenic desert landscape with unique rock formations.

Picture generated by Imagen 3 with immediate: “Shot within the fashion of DSLR digicam with the polarizing filter. A photograph of two sizzling air balloons over the distinctive rock formations in Cappadocia, Turkey. The colours and patterns on these balloons distinction fantastically towards the earthy tones of the panorama beneath. This shot captures the sense of journey that comes with having fun with such an expertise.”

A wooden robot stands in a field of yellow flowers, holding a small blue bird on its outstretched hand.

Picture generated by Imagen 3 with immediate: A weathered, picket mech robotic coated in flowering vines stands peacefully in a discipline of tall wildflowers, with a small blue fowl resting on its outstretched hand. Digital cartoon, with heat colours and smooth strains. A big cliff with a waterfall looms behind.

Imagen 3 unlocks thrilling new prospects for Android builders. Generated visuals can adapt to the content material of your app, making a extra partaking consumer expertise. As an example, your customers can generate customized art work to boost their in-app profile. Imagen can even enhance your app’s storytelling by bringing its narratives to life with pleasant personalised illustrations.

You’ll be able to experiment with picture prompts in Vertex AI Studio, and learn to enhance your prompts by reviewing the immediate and picture attribute information.

Get began with Imagen 3

The mixing of Imagen 3 is much like including Gemini entry through Vertex AI in Firebase. Begin by including the gradle dependencies to your Android mission:

dependencies {
    implementation(platform("com.google.firebase:firebase-bom:33.10.0"))

    implementation("com.google.firebase:firebase-vertexai")
}

Then, in your Kotlin code, create an ImageModel occasion by passing the mannequin title and optionally, a mannequin configuration and security settings:

val imageModel = Firebase.vertexAI.imagenModel(
  modelName = "imagen-3.0-generate-001",
  generationConfig = ImagenGenerationConfig(
    imageFormat = ImagenImageFormat.jpeg(compresssionQuality = 75),
    addWatermark = true,
    numberOfImages = 1,
    aspectRatio = ImagenAspectRatio.SQUARE_1x1
  ),
  safetySettings = ImagenSafetySettings(
    safetyFilterLevel = ImagenSafetyFilterLevel.BLOCK_LOW_AND_ABOVE
    personFilterLevel = ImagenPersonFilterLevel.ALLOW_ADULT
  )
)

Lastly generate the picture by calling generateImages:

val imageResponse = imageModel.generateImages(
  immediate = "An astronaut driving a horse"
)

Retrieve the generated picture from the imageResponse and show it as a bitmap as observe:

val picture = imageResponse.photos.first()
val uiImage = picture.asBitmap()

Subsequent steps

Discover the excellent Firebase documentation for detailed API data.

Entry to Imagen 3 utilizing Vertex AI in Firebase is presently in Public Preview, supplying you with an early alternative to experiment and innovate. For pricing particulars, please confer with the Vertex AI in Firebase pricing web page.

Begin experimenting with Imagen 3 as we speak! We’re trying ahead to seeing the way you’ll leverage Imagen 3’s capabilities to create really distinctive, immersive and personalised Android experiences.

Get began with Imagen 3

Subsequent steps

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