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PatternsSDK API
Generate Image (Google Gemini)
Generate Image (Google Gemini)
Generate images from text prompts using Google Gemini's image model.
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Problems solved
Technical challenges this implementation handles out of the box.
- Generate images from text prompts with Google Gemini image models
- Display generated image results in a simple demo UI
- Wire Gemini image generation through the AI SDK
Use cases
Products and workflows this pattern is designed to support.
- Gemini image playgrounds
- Prompt-to-image concept tools
- Marketing visual drafts
- AI SDK Google image onboarding demos
Setup
Requirements, wiring steps, and what this pattern adds to your project.
Getting started
Pick how you want to pull this pattern in — then wire env vars and routes the same way.
- 1
Install from the preview toolbar
Copy the install command above and run it in your project — Pro patterns include a short-lived token.
- 2
Add environment variables to .env.local
GOOGLE_GENERATIVE_AI_API_KEY
- 3
Point client fetches at your API routes
Replace preview `/view/.../api/...` paths with `/api/...` in the installed files.
- 4
Customize the agent and tool files
Adapt prompts, tools, and stop conditions for your product — Copy for AI in the toolbar helps seed that work.
- 5
Run your dev server and open the pattern route
Install dependencies if needed, then start the app and verify responses.
Environment variables
GOOGLE_GENERATIVE_AI_API_KEYGet key
Capabilities
AI SDK APIs
generateTextProviders
Gemini
Files added
4 filesapp/page.tsxapp/layout.tsxcomponents/image-demo.tsxapp/api/generate-image/route.ts
Dependencies
4 totalRegistry components
input-groupseparatoremptyalert
Critical files
generate-image/route.tsAPI route implementing Gemini image generation using AI SDK generateText with Google image response modalities.
Requirements
- Complexity
- Beginner
