How to add AI to your React Native app in 5 minutes

Most React Native developers want to add AI features — chat, image analysis, form validation — but setting up Claude or OpenAI from scratch takes hours.

I built react-native-ai-hooks to fix that.

Install

npm install react-native-ai-hooks

Add a chat interface

import { useAIChat } from 'react-native-ai-hooks';

const { messages, sendMessage, isLoading } = useAIChat({
  apiKey: 'your-api-key',
  provider: 'claude',
});

Analyze images from camera

import { useImageAnalysis } from 'react-native-ai-hooks';

const { analyzeImage, description, isLoading } = useImageAnalysis({
  apiKey: 'your-api-key',
  provider: 'claude',
});

All hooks

• useAIChat() — multi-turn chat with streaming
• useAIStream() — real-time token streaming
• useImageAnalysis() — camera/gallery → AI description
• useAIForm() — AI-powered form validation

Works with Claude, OpenAI & Gemini.

Links

• NPM: npmjs.com/package/react-native-ai-hooks
• GitHub: github.com/nikapkh/react-native-ai-hooks