--- title: Bringing native AI to your mobile apps with ExecuTorch — pa… description: A step-by-step guide to running AI models locally on Android using ExecuTorch and the XNNPACK backend, integrated into a React Native app. The tutorial covers... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/bringing-native-ai-to-your-mobile-apps-with-executorch-pa--mhtiwgmz1 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Bringing native AI to your mobile apps with ExecuTorch — pa… | daily.dev og:description: A step-by-step guide to running AI models locally on Android using ExecuTorch and the XNNPACK backend, integrated into a React Native app. The tutorial covers... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/bringing-native-ai-to-your-mobile-apps-with-executorch-pa--mhtiwgmz1 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/MHtiwgmz1.png og:image:alt: Bringing native AI to your mobile apps with ExecuTorch — pa… 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. # Bringing native AI to your mobile apps with ExecuTorch — pa… **[Software Mansion](https://daily.dev/sources/swmansion)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A step-by-step guide to running AI models locally on Android using ExecuTorch and the XNNPACK backend, integrated into a React Native app. The tutorial covers exporting a PyTorch style transfer model to the .pte format, building the ExecuTorch runtime, creating Java wrapper extensions, loading the model from raw resources in Kotlin, converting bitmaps to Float32 tensors, running inference, and saving the output image. 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