# Llama Stack Developer Cookbook

Based on your developer needs, below are references to guides to help you get started.

### Hosted Llama Stack Endpoint
* Developer Need: I want to connect to a Llama Stack endpoint to build my applications.
* Effort: 1min
* Guide:
  - Checkout our [DeepLearning course](https://www.deeplearning.ai/short-courses/introducing-multimodal-llama-3-2) on building with Llama Stack apps on pre-hosted Llama Stack endpoint.


### Local meta-reference Llama Stack Server
* Developer Need: I want to start a local Llama Stack server with my GPU using meta-reference implementations.
* Effort: 5min
* Guide:
  - Please see our [Getting Started Guide](./getting_started.md) on starting up a meta-reference Llama Stack server.

### Llama Stack Server with Remote Providers
* Developer need: I want a Llama Stack distribution with a remote provider.
* Effort: 10min
* Guide
  - Please see our [Distributions Guide](../distributions/) on starting up distributions with remote providers.


### On-Device (iOS) Llama Stack
* Developer Need: I want to use Llama Stack on-Device
* Effort: 1.5hr
* Guide:
  - Please see our [iOS Llama Stack SDK](../llama_stack/providers/impls/ios/inference) implementations

### Assemble your own Llama Stack Distribution
* Developer Need: I want to assemble my own distribution with API providers to my likings
* Effort: 30min
* Guide
  - Please see our [Building Distribution](./building_distro.md) guide for assembling your own Llama Stack distribution with your choice of API providers.

### Adding a New API Provider
* Developer Need: I want to add a new API provider to Llama Stack.
* Effort: 3hr
* Guide
  - Please see our [Adding a New API Provider](./new_api_provider.md) guide for adding a new API provider.