Face Avatar Generator — My Submission for the DEV x Google AI Studio Track

This post is my submission for DEV Education Track: Build Apps with Google AI Studio . What I Built I built Face Avatar Generator , a lightweight browser app that transforms an uploaded face photo into a clean, stylized avatar. The app uses Imagen inside Google AI Studio to preserve facial identity while generating a polished, social‑media‑ready avatar. Here’s the core prompt that powers the app: "Please create an app that takes an image of a face and generates an identical social media avatar using Imagen." The goal was to create a simple, fast, and fun tool that demonstrates how easily multimodal inputs and generative outputs can be combined into a single workflow. Demo Live App: https://ai.studio/apps/f70cabcc-b531-4d55-b51a-9813f3569d0d?fullscreenApplet=true Source Code: https://github.com/lukeponga-dev/Face-Avatar-Generator Screenshots: Video Demo: My Experience Working through the Google AI Studio track gave me a much deeper appreciation for how quickly you can turn an idea into