
Alvin Otuya
Senior Software Engineer at Spiro and open source contributor. Building apps in the energy sector across 7+ countries in Africa. Author of react-native-app-functions,
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Your React Native App is an On-Device MCP Server: App functions & App Intents from One TS Definition
React Summit Asia 2027
Upcoming
Your React Native App is an On-Device MCP Server: App functions & App Intents from One TS Definition

Mobile Interfaces are moving from the conventional screen first navigation approach to an agentic system where AI assistants can access an app's underlying logic without needing to open the its user interfaces. Both Android and iOS have this covered with AppFunctions and App Intents respectively. The challenge is that these two solutions are compile-time and native-only APIs, so this will leave React Native apps out. The talk will show the audience how react-native-app-functions lets developers declare a function once in TypeScript and exposes it to AI assistants(gemini, siri).