“interactions-api”
Streaming Gemini Interactions: SSE Events, Tools, Thinking, and Agents
A complete guide to streaming Gemini Interactions API responses with server-sent events - understanding step-based event flow, streaming with tools, function calling, thinking summaries, agents, and multimodal image generation.
Gemini File Input Methods: Inline Data, File API, GCS, and URLs Compared
Compare the four ways to include media files in Gemini Interactions API requests - inline base64 data, File API upload, GCS URI registration, and external URLs - with size limits, persistence, and code examples for each.
Mastering the Gemini File API: Upload, Manage, and Prompt With Media Files
A practical guide to the Gemini File API - uploading images, audio, video, and documents up to 2GB, managing file lifecycles, and using them in multimodal prompts with best practices for getting reliable outputs.
How to Run Long-Running AI Tasks With Gemini Background Execution
Learn how to use Gemini Interactions API background execution to run deep research, complex reasoning, and multi-step agent tasks asynchronously, with polling, streaming reconnection, multi-turn chaining, and cancellation patterns.
Building with the Gemini Interactions API: A Developer's Guide to the New Standard
Learn how to build AI applications with the Gemini Interactions API - the new universal interface for Gemini models and agents, covering server-side state management, background execution, migration from generateContent, and best practices.