Introduction
🤖 Welcome to the AI APP Challenge Guide!
In this tutorial, we’ll build a ChatGPT-style clone using React Native and OpenAI API. You’ll learn how to create a modern mobile app with chat functionality, conversation history, and a clean interface.
Whether you're here to improve your mobile development skills or just to see how AI chat apps are built, you’re in the right place!
🚀 Learning Goals
By the end of this project, you’ll gain hands-on experience with:
- 🧭 Expo Router – Implementing navigation with a custom side menu drawer.
- 🔐 Expo API Routes – Building backend endpoints inside the app.
- 🛠️ TypeScript – Writing safe and scalable code with strong typing.
- 🧵 Zustand + Persist – Global state management with local storage.
- 🧑🎨 NativeWind – Styling components using Tailwind style classes.
- 🧠 OpenAI API Integration – Sending user messages and displaying AI-generated replies.
- 💬 Chat History – Persisting full conversations across sessions.
- 📝 Markdown Rendering – Formatting AI responses.
🧰 Tech Stack
- React Native with Expo
- Expo Router – App Navigation.
- Expo API Routes – Backend integration.
- TypeScript – Ensuring type safety.
- Zustand + Persist – Persistent state management.
- NativeWind – Tailwind like component styling.
- OpenAI API – AI Model.
Let’s get started! 🔥
