---
title: "How to Run an LLM Locally on Your Mobile Phone with QVAC and Expo"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-to-run-an-llm-locally-on-your-mobile-phone-with-qvac-and-expo-gnzgxws2e
source_url: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-run-an-llm-locally-on-your-mobile-phone-with-qvac-and-expo
type: article
source: "freeCodeCamp"
published: 2026-06-03T23:26:32.492Z
updated: 2026-06-03T23:26:56.492Z
tags: ["react-native", "llama-cpp"]
reading_time: 12
upvotes: 2
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How to Run an LLM Locally on Your Mobile Phone with QVAC and Expo

**[freeCodeCamp](https://daily.dev/sources/freecodecamp)** · 12 min read · 2 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

A step-by-step guide to building a React Native chat app that runs a language model entirely on-device using the QVAC SDK and Expo. Covers QVAC installation, model downloading with progress tracking, GPU-accelerated model loading, and real-time streaming token generation — all without any cloud dependency. Uses Llama 3.2 1B in GGUF format and requires a physical device for testing since emulators are unsupported.

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