I built a native React Native downloader because AI models are huge

I ran into this while building Orb, a private offline AI app for Android.

Orb runs local models on the phone. That is great for privacy, but it creates a very practical mobile problem: the app has to download model files that can be multiple gigabytes. If the network drops, the app backgrounds, or the user force-closes the app, restarting from zero is a terrible experience.

So I pulled the downloader out into a small open-source package:

react-native-client is a native HTTP client for React Native apps that need direct-to-file downloads without moving bytes through the JavaScript bridge. The first stable API is focused on downloads, not general HTTP requests.

What it does