Sundar Pichai published an interesting Tweet thread, that highlighted a few updates across Google this week. Take a look at the thread below (it’s worth going through).
Sundar Pichai on X (formerly Twitter): "A few updates from across Google this week🧵A new full-stack vibe coding experience is now in @GoogleAIStudio with the @Antigravity coding agent and a built-in @Firebase integration.Turn your prompts into amazing production-ready apps. pic.twitter.com/K8mo2FuOI2 / X"
A few updates from across Google this week🧵A new full-stack vibe coding experience is now in @GoogleAIStudio with the @Antigravity coding agent and a built-in @Firebase integration.Turn your prompts into amazing production-ready apps. pic.twitter.com/K8mo2FuOI2
I wanted to highlighted some fantastic resources that are available for you to start taking a closer look and most importantly, experience these products. From Sundar’s list, I want to provide you with resources on two of the products: Google AI Studio and Stitch.
Google AI Studio
First up, take a look at the official announcement of the full-stack vibe coding experience now available in AI Studio.
Introducing the new full-stack vibe coding experience in Google AI Studio
What does full-stack vibe coding experience really even mean? At a high level, the AI now handles both the front-end and the complex back-end infrastructure automatically and which means that with Google Antigravity coding agent, now powering the vibe coding in AI Studio, you get (well summarized by Gemini from the article post):
- Integrated Backends: It automatically detects when your app needs a database or login system. Through a built-in Firebase integration, it can provision Cloud Firestore for data and Firebase Authentication for secure Google sign-ins.
- Modern Web Ecosystem: The agent doesn’t just write vanilla code; it installs and configures professional libraries like Framer Motion for animations, Shadcn for UI components, and supports frameworks like Next.js.
- Real-World Connectivity: You can provide API credentials (stored in a new Secrets Manager) to let your “vibe-coded” app talk to services like Google Maps or payment processors.
- Multiplayer & Persistence: It can set up real-time syncing logic (using tools like Three.js) for collaborative apps and remembers your progress across sessions so you can pick up where you left off.
Resources to learn more about the new AI Studio vibe coding experience
Are you ready to try out the new experience? If yes, I suggest the following couple of articles:
✍️ Richard Seroter’s detailed writeup titled “Full-stack vibe coding made easy”. The article demonstrates the new vibe coding experience in AI Studio, by building a full-stack hotel stay tracker from scratch.
The application features:
- Identity Services: Integrated Firebase Auth for secure Google account sign-in.
- Database: A cloud-backed Firestore database to store and retrieve personal notes on hotel rooms.
- API Integration: A map interface that uses the Gemini API to display stay locations.
Full-stack vibe coding made easy
✍️ Guillaume Vernade’s article titled “Vibe-coding in Google AI Studio: my tips to prompt better and create amazing apps”, covers in addition to describing the new features of AI Studio, a bunch of expert tips. One of the expert tips include using visual annotations (drawing on screenshots) to request UI changes.
Vibe-coding in Google AI Studio: my tips to prompt better and create amazing apps
Go ahead and let us know what you build with AI Studio?
Stitch : Design at the speed of AI
If you’ve not heard of Stitch, it is an AI-native software design canvas developed by Google Labs. It is designed to bridge the gap between initial design concepts and front-end development.
Here is a lovely summarization (again by Gemini) of the Stitch home page and the essence of what it offers:
- AI-Powered Generation: It transforms natural language prompts, hand-drawn wireframes, or screenshots into editable user interfaces for mobile and web apps.
- Prototyping: Unlike tools that generate single screens, Stitch allows you to create multi-screen flows with interactive hotspots to simulate a user experience.
- Developer-Ready Output: It generates clean, semantic HTML and CSS (including Tailwind support) and allows for direct exports to Figma with structured Auto Layouts and named layers.
- Model Context Protocol (MCP): A unique integration that allows Stitch to connect with external AI coding agents, creating a two-way feedback loop for layout edits and design variants.
- Cost: It is currently free of charge, operating on a daily credit limit that resets at midnight UTC.
- Availability: It is available in English to users aged 18+ in countries where Gemini is supported.
Resources to learn more about Stitch
Prashanth Subrahmanyam has one of the most popular articles on Google Cloud Medium publication in the last couple of months and its a great guide for you to get started with not just Google Stitch but also Google Antigravity. The article titled “Great-looking UIs with Google Stitch and Google Antigravity” highlights how these tools can be integrated using an MCP server, allowing Antigravity to use Stitch’s design capabilities to automatically overhaul basic application interfaces into professional, high-quality UIs using React and Tailwind CSS.
Prashanth covers building Gemini CLI Monitor, a dashboard designed to track and parse changelogs for Gemini CLI. He uses Google Antigravity to handle the app logic and the Google Stitch MCP server to automatically transform the initial basic interface into a professional, modern UI using React and Tailwind CSS.
Great-looking UIs with Google Stitch and Google Antigravity
Next up is Karl Weinmeister’s article titled “How I overhauled my app UI in minutes with Stitch and AI Studio”, that describes a rapid, three-step workflow for modernizing an app’s UI and codebase using Google’s AI-powered tools:
- Vibe Designing: Using Google Stitch to generate a full design system and new user screens by simply providing the app’s architectural context.
- Vibe Coding: Exporting those designs to Google AI Studio, where the Antigravity agent generates a functional TypeScript frontend while maintaining full-stack context.
- Vibe Deploying: Launching the updated application to Google Cloud Run with a single click, bypassing traditional manual infrastructure setup.
This article is key for you to understand that you need not just stop at local development of your application using AI but also cross the biggest hurdle that most vibe coders face today i.e. how do I take my application and make it available to everyone (deploy to the cloud)?
How I overhauled my app UI in minutes with Stitch and AI Studio
Stitch by Google — Step by Step Codelab
If you would like to follow a step by step tutorial (codelab) to experience Stitch, Harsh Dattani has you covered.
Design-to-Code with Antigravity and Stitch MCP | Google Codelabs
This codelab, titled Design-to-Code with Antigravity and Stitch MCP, guides you through an advanced “agent-first” development workflow. It focuses on bridging the gap between high-fidelity UI design and production-ready code using AI-driven tools.
Here is a breakdown of what you will do and learn:
- Generate UI in Stitch: Use natural language prompts to create a full-scale web design within Google Stitch.
- Bridge with MCP: Connect the Antigravity IDE to your Stitch project using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
- Autonomous Implementation: Use Antigravity’s “Agent Tab” to automatically scaffold a React and Tailwind CSS project.
- Verify and Refine: Use an integrated browser to perform a “Vibe Check,” ensuring the generated code matches the original design.
Submit your stories
Have you turned a wild prompt into a working app using Google AI Studio? Or perhaps you’ve overhauled a clunky UI using the Stitch MCP server?
Submit your stories, screenshots, and “vibe checks” in the comments below. Or better still, we’d love for you to contribute your story and get it published in our Google Cloud Medium publication. Just fill up this form and we’ll get you started.
Google Cloud Medium Publication – Writer Registration
Summary
By integrating the Antigravity coding agent and Firebase directly into Google AI Studio, “vibe coding” has turned from a experimental trend into a professional, full-stack reality.
Whether you are using Stitch to bridge the gap between high-fidelity design and React code, or utilizing the methods highlighted by several articles listed here, to deploy cloud-backed apps in minutes, the barrier to entry for production-grade development has never been lower.
Full-Stack Vibe Coding: Building Production-Ready Apps with AI Studio, Stitch & Antigravity was originally published in Google Cloud – Community on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.
Source Credit: https://medium.com/google-cloud/full-stack-vibe-coding-building-production-ready-apps-with-ai-studio-stitch-antigravity-4a25cd293ce6?source=rss—-e52cf94d98af—4
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