--- title: Trippy: Your AI travel guide built with Firebase and Gemini description: Trippy, a travel-planning app built in Cameroon, won the Gemini API Developer Competition for its extensive use of Firebase and Gemini. The app generates... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/trippy-your-ai-travel-guide-built-with-firebase-and-gemini-uecss14pi twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Trippy: Your AI travel guide built with Firebase and Gemini | daily.dev og:description: Trippy, a travel-planning app built in Cameroon, won the Gemini API Developer Competition for its extensive use of Firebase and Gemini. The app generates... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/trippy-your-ai-travel-guide-built-with-firebase-and-gemini-uecss14pi og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/uecsS14PI.png og:image:alt: Trippy: Your AI travel guide built with Firebase and Gemini 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. # Trippy: Your AI travel guide built with Firebase and Gemini **[Firebase](https://daily.dev/sources/firebase-blog)** · 3 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Trippy, a travel-planning app built in Cameroon, won the Gemini API Developer Competition for its extensive use of Firebase and Gemini. The app generates personalized itineraries, contextual recommendations, and multilingual support, and includes expense tracking with receipt scanning, in-app games, and an AI chat assistant. It integrates Firebase Auth, Cloud Functions, Firestore, Cloud Storage, Vertex AI in Firebase, and FCM, alongside third-party APIs like Eventbrite, Amadeus, Booking.com, and others for a comprehensive travel experience. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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