Example how to download a 3dmodel from the internet using react-native-arkit

ModelWithDownload.js

// @flow
import { ARKit } from 'react-native-arkit'
import { branch, compose, lifecycle, renderComponent } from 'recompose'
import { unzip } from 'react-native-zip-archive'
import RNFetchBlob from 'react-native-fetch-blob'
import React from 'react'

const getModelPath = modelId => (
  `${RNFetchBlob.fs.dirs.CacheDir}/models/${modelId}/`
)

const getModelFile = modelId => (
  `${getModelPath(modelId)}product-optimized.scnassets/model.dae`
)

const getModelUrl = modelId => (
  `https://example.com/path/to/download/model?modelId=${modelId}`
)

async function loadModel(passedProps = null) {
  const props = passedProps || this.props
  const { modelId } = props

  const path = getModelPath(modelId)
  const modelFile = getModelFile(modelId)
  const exists = await RNFetchBlob.fs.exists(modelFile)
  if (exists) {
    this.setState({ isLoading: false })
  } else {
    this.setState({ isLoading: true })
    const result = await RNFetchBlob.config({
      fileCache: true,
    })
      .fetch('GET', getModelUrl(modelId))
      .progress((received, total) => { 
        console.log('progress', received, total, received / total) 
      })

    console.log('The file saved to ', result.path())
    const unzipPath = await unzip(result.path(), path)
    console.log(`unzip completed at ${unzipPath}`)
    this.setState({ isLoading: false })
  }
}

const withModelDownload = compose(
  lifecycle({
    componentDidMount: loadModel,
    componentWillReceiveProps: loadModel,
  }),
  branch(
    ({ isLoading }) => isLoading,
    renderComponent(({ pos }) => (
      // you can render a placeholder here.
      <ARKit.Box
        pos={pos}
        shape={{ width: 1, height: 1, length: 1, chamfer: 0.01 }}
      />
    )),
  ),
)

export default withModelDownload(({ pos, modelId }) => (
  <ARKit.Model
    pos={pos}
    model={{
      scale: 1,
      file: getModelFile(modelId),
    }}
  />
))