--- title: Product news and other highlights from Firebase Live description: A recap of Firebase Live, a month-long web series of talks, tutorials, and product updates from the Firebase team. Highlights include a new beta emulator UI... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/product-news-and-other-highlights-from-firebase-live-lxhqswwam twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Product news and other highlights from Firebase Live | daily.dev og:description: A recap of Firebase Live, a month-long web series of talks, tutorials, and product updates from the Firebase team. Highlights include a new beta emulator UI... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/product-news-and-other-highlights-from-firebase-live-lxhqswwam og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/lXHqSWwAM.png og:image:alt: Product news and other highlights from Firebase Live og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Product news and other highlights from Firebase Live **[Firebase](https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog)** · 9 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A recap of Firebase Live, a month-long web series of talks, tutorials, and product updates from the Firebase team. Highlights include a new beta emulator UI for local development, security rules improvements with local variables support, beta Sign in with Apple support, two new Stripe payment extensions (invoicing and subscriptions), a new ML Model Management API for TensorFlow Lite deployment, Remote Config parameter groups and A/B test visibility, and new Crashlytics BigQuery streaming for realtime crash alerting. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### How do I unit test Firestore security rules locally without deploying them? Use the Firebase Emulator Suite, which supports instant code reload of security rules alongside helper testing libraries for writing unit tests. Recent updates made the rules language more expressive, streamlined rule logic, and added support for local variables usable within functions, making it easier to debug and monitor rules before deployment. _Developers hardening Firestore rules can follow ongoing Firebase tooling updates on daily.dev._ ### What does the Firebase ML Model Management API let me do with TensorFlow Lite models? It lets developers deploy and manage TensorFlow Lite models programmatically instead of through the console, which is useful for machine learning pipelines that automatically retrain models with new data. Models can be uploaded to Firebase and distributed over the air, reducing initial app size and enabling A/B testing between multiple models without republishing the app. _Teams automating ML model rollout in apps can track Firebase and TensorFlow updates on daily.dev._ ### What Stripe extensions are available for Firebase projects? Firebase offers two Stripe-built extensions: Send Invoices with Stripe, which programmatically creates and sends branded customer invoices, and Run Subscription Payments with Stripe, which creates and syncs subscriptions while controlling access to subscription content via Firebase Authentication. Both extensions avoid the need to learn the Stripe API directly. _Developers weighing payment integrations can follow Firebase and Stripe tooling news on daily.dev._ --- Tags: [#mobile](https://daily.dev/tags/mobile), [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#firebase](https://daily.dev/tags/firebase), [#tensorflow](https://daily.dev/tags/tensorflow), [#stripe](https://daily.dev/tags/stripe) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/product-news-and-other-highlights-from-firebase-live-lxhqswwam) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Product news and other highlights from Firebase Live","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/product-news-and-other-highlights-from-firebase-live-lxhqswwam","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/product-news-and-other-highlights-from-firebase-live-lxhqswwam"},"datePublished":"2026-08-23T12:19:54.334Z","dateModified":"2026-08-23T12:31:55.254Z","description":"A recap of Firebase Live, a month-long web series of talks, tutorials, and product updates from the Firebase team. 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