🚀 [firebase_ai] Support Files API as an alternative to InlineDataPart #17615

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1. ReplayAppTeam

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   on Aug 10, 2025
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3. Lyokone

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   on Jun 8, 2026
4. Lyokone commented on Jun 8, 2026

   

   Lyokone

   on Jun 8, 2026

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   Hi @ReplayAppTeam, thanks for the detailed comparison.

   The Gemini Developer API Files API is not currently exposed through Firebase AI Logic SDKs, so this is not something firebase_ai can just route through without backend/API support. In Firebase AI Logic, the supported alternative to InlineDataPart for larger or reusable media is to upload the file to Cloud Storage for Firebase and pass it as FileData.

   For Flutter, that looks like:

   final videoPart = FileData('video/mp4', 'gs://your-bucket/path/video.mp4');
   final response = await model.generateContent([
     Content.multi([
       videoPart,
       const TextPart('Extract the relevant information from this video.'),
     ]),
   ]);

   The Firebase docs cover this flow here: https://firebase.google.com/docs/ai-logic/solutions/cloud-storage

   I’m going to close this as an upstream Firebase AI Logic feature request rather than a FlutterFire bug. If Firebase AI Logic adds a Files API surface in the future, we can expose it in firebase_ai.
5. Lyokone

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