diff --git a/e2e/sample-apps/modular.js b/e2e/sample-apps/modular.js
index 4c5238d44dc..e3170bb3c57 100644
--- a/e2e/sample-apps/modular.js
+++ b/e2e/sample-apps/modular.js
@@ -58,12 +58,7 @@ import {
   onValue,
   off
 } from 'firebase/database';
-import {
-  getGenerativeModel,
-  getVertexAI,
-  InferenceMode,
-  VertexAI
-} from 'firebase/vertexai';
+import { getGenerativeModel, getVertexAI } from 'firebase/vertexai';
 import { getDataConnect, DataConnect } from 'firebase/data-connect';
 
 /**
@@ -318,8 +313,13 @@ function callPerformance(app) {
 async function callVertexAI(app) {
   console.log('[VERTEXAI] start');
   const vertexAI = getVertexAI(app);
-  const model = getGenerativeModel(vertexAI, { model: 'gemini-1.5-flash' });
-  const result = await model.countTokens('abcdefg');
+  const model = getGenerativeModel(vertexAI, {
+    mode: 'prefer_in_cloud'
+  });
+  const result = await model.generateContentStream("What is Roko's Basalisk?");
+  for await (const chunk of result.stream) {
+    console.log(chunk.text());
+  }
   console.log(`[VERTEXAI] counted tokens: ${result.totalTokens}`);
 }
 
diff --git a/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chat-session.ts b/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chat-session.ts
index 4188872cff7..112ddf5857e 100644
--- a/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chat-session.ts
+++ b/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chat-session.ts
@@ -149,6 +149,7 @@ export class ChatSession {
       this._apiSettings,
       this.model,
       generateContentRequest,
+      this.chromeAdapter,
       this.requestOptions
     );
 
diff --git a/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chrome-adapter.test.ts b/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chrome-adapter.test.ts
index cce97b25f5a..a18812374c0 100644
--- a/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chrome-adapter.test.ts
+++ b/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chrome-adapter.test.ts
@@ -30,6 +30,25 @@ import { GenerateContentRequest } from '../types';
 use(sinonChai);
 use(chaiAsPromised);
 
+/**
+ * Converts the ReadableStream from response.body to an array of strings.
+ */
+async function toStringArray(
+  stream: ReadableStream<Uint8Array>
+): Promise<string[]> {
+  const decoder = new TextDecoder();
+  const actual = [];
+  const reader = stream.getReader();
+  while (true) {
+    const { done, value } = await reader.read();
+    if (done) {
+      break;
+    }
+    actual.push(decoder.decode(value));
+  }
+  return actual;
+}
+
 describe('ChromeAdapter', () => {
   describe('isAvailable', () => {
     it('returns false if mode is only cloud', async () => {
@@ -280,7 +299,7 @@ describe('ChromeAdapter', () => {
       const request = {
         contents: [{ role: 'user', parts: [{ text: 'anything' }] }]
       } as GenerateContentRequest;
-      const response = await adapter.generateContentOnDevice(request);
+      const response = await adapter.generateContent(request);
       // Asserts initialization params are proxied.
       expect(createStub).to.have.been.calledOnceWith(onDeviceParams);
       // Asserts Vertex input type is mapped to Chrome type.
@@ -325,6 +344,7 @@ describe('ChromeAdapter', () => {
       const createStub = stub(languageModelProvider, 'create').resolves(
         languageModel
       );
+
       // overrides impl with stub method
       const measureInputUsageStub = stub(
         languageModel,
@@ -336,6 +356,7 @@ describe('ChromeAdapter', () => {
         'prefer_on_device',
         onDeviceParams
       );
+
       const countTokenRequest = {
         contents: [{ role: 'user', parts: [{ text: inputText }] }]
       } as GenerateContentRequest;
@@ -359,4 +380,52 @@ describe('ChromeAdapter', () => {
       });
     });
   });
+  describe('generateContentStreamOnDevice', () => {
+    it('generates content stream', async () => {
+      const languageModelProvider = {
+        create: () => Promise.resolve({})
+      } as LanguageModel;
+      const languageModel = {
+        promptStreaming: _i => new ReadableStream()
+      } as LanguageModel;
+      const createStub = stub(languageModelProvider, 'create').resolves(
+        languageModel
+      );
+      const part = 'hi';
+      const promptStub = stub(languageModel, 'promptStreaming').returns(
+        new ReadableStream({
+          start(controller) {
+            controller.enqueue([part]);
+            controller.close();
+          }
+        })
+      );
+      const onDeviceParams = {} as LanguageModelCreateOptions;
+      const adapter = new ChromeAdapter(
+        languageModelProvider,
+        'prefer_on_device',
+        onDeviceParams
+      );
+      const request = {
+        contents: [{ role: 'user', parts: [{ text: 'anything' }] }]
+      } as GenerateContentRequest;
+      const response = await adapter.generateContentStream(request);
+      expect(createStub).to.have.been.calledOnceWith(onDeviceParams);
+      expect(promptStub).to.have.been.calledOnceWith([
+        {
+          role: request.contents[0].role,
+          content: [
+            {
+              type: 'text',
+              content: request.contents[0].parts[0].text
+            }
+          ]
+        }
+      ]);
+      const actual = await toStringArray(response.body!);
+      expect(actual).to.deep.equal([
+        `data: {"candidates":[{"content":{"role":"model","parts":[{"text":["${part}"]}]}}]}\n\n`
+      ]);
+    });
+  });
 });
diff --git a/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chrome-adapter.ts b/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chrome-adapter.ts
index 225d2bd581d..dcdb38b7fd8 100644
--- a/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chrome-adapter.ts
+++ b/packages/vertexai/src/methods/chrome-adapter.ts
@@ -95,7 +95,25 @@ export class ChromeAdapter {
    * @param request a standard Vertex {@link GenerateContentRequest}
    * @returns {@link Response}, so we can reuse common response formatting.
    */
-  async generateContentOnDevice(
+  async generateContent(request: GenerateContentRequest): Promise<Response> {
+    const session = await this.createSession(
+      // TODO: normalize on-device params during construction.
+      this.onDeviceParams || {}
+    );
+    const messages = ChromeAdapter.toLanguageModelMessages(request.contents);
+    const text = await session.prompt(messages);
+    return ChromeAdapter.toResponse(text);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Generates content stream on device.
+   *
+   * <p>This is comparable to {@link GenerativeModel.generateContentStream} for generating content in
+   * Cloud.</p>
+   * @param request a standard Vertex {@link GenerateContentRequest}
+   * @returns {@link Response}, so we can reuse common response formatting.
+   */
+  async generateContentStream(
     request: GenerateContentRequest
   ): Promise<Response> {
     const session = await this.createSession(
@@ -103,19 +121,8 @@ export class ChromeAdapter {
       this.onDeviceParams || {}
     );
     const messages = ChromeAdapter.toLanguageModelMessages(request.contents);
-    const text = await session.prompt(messages);
-    return {
-      json: () =>
-        Promise.resolve({
-          candidates: [
-            {
-              content: {
-                parts: [{ text }]
-              }
-            }
-          ]
-        })
-    } as Response;
+    const stream = await session.promptStreaming(messages);
+    return ChromeAdapter.toStreamResponse(stream);
   }
 
   async countTokens(request: CountTokensRequest): Promise<Response> {
@@ -240,4 +247,47 @@ export class ChromeAdapter {
     this.oldSession = newSession;
     return newSession;
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Formats string returned by Chrome as a {@link Response} returned by Vertex.
+   */
+  private static toResponse(text: string): Response {
+    return {
+      json: async () => ({
+        candidates: [
+          {
+            content: {
+              parts: [{ text }]
+            }
+          }
+        ]
+      })
+    } as Response;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Formats string stream returned by Chrome as SSE returned by Vertex.
+   */
+  private static toStreamResponse(stream: ReadableStream<string>): Response {
+    const encoder = new TextEncoder();
+    return {
+      body: stream.pipeThrough(
+        new TransformStream({
+          transform(chunk, controller) {
+            const json = JSON.stringify({
+              candidates: [
+                {
+                  content: {
+                    role: 'model',
+                    parts: [{ text: chunk }]
+                  }
+                }
+              ]
+            });
+            controller.enqueue(encoder.encode(`data: ${json}\n\n`));
+          }
+        })
+      )
+    } as Response;
+  }
 }
diff --git a/packages/vertexai/src/methods/generate-content.test.ts b/packages/vertexai/src/methods/generate-content.test.ts
index f714ec4d535..19c32941090 100644
--- a/packages/vertexai/src/methods/generate-content.test.ts
+++ b/packages/vertexai/src/methods/generate-content.test.ts
@@ -308,6 +308,7 @@ describe('generateContent()', () => {
     );
     expect(mockFetch).to.be.called;
   });
+  // TODO: define a similar test for generateContentStream
   it('on-device', async () => {
     const chromeAdapter = new ChromeAdapter();
     const isAvailableStub = stub(chromeAdapter, 'isAvailable').resolves(true);
@@ -315,10 +316,9 @@ describe('generateContent()', () => {
       'vertexAI',
       'unary-success-basic-reply-short.json'
     );
-    const generateContentStub = stub(
-      chromeAdapter,
-      'generateContentOnDevice'
-    ).resolves(mockResponse as Response);
+    const generateContentStub = stub(chromeAdapter, 'generateContent').resolves(
+      mockResponse as Response
+    );
     const result = await generateContent(
       fakeApiSettings,
       'model',
diff --git a/packages/vertexai/src/methods/generate-content.ts b/packages/vertexai/src/methods/generate-content.ts
index ba7a162aa9c..1dc5918516e 100644
--- a/packages/vertexai/src/methods/generate-content.ts
+++ b/packages/vertexai/src/methods/generate-content.ts
@@ -28,13 +28,13 @@ import { processStream } from '../requests/stream-reader';
 import { ApiSettings } from '../types/internal';
 import { ChromeAdapter } from './chrome-adapter';
 
-export async function generateContentStream(
+async function generateContentStreamOnCloud(
   apiSettings: ApiSettings,
   model: string,
   params: GenerateContentRequest,
   requestOptions?: RequestOptions
-): Promise<GenerateContentStreamResult> {
-  const response = await makeRequest(
+): Promise<Response> {
+  return makeRequest(
     model,
     Task.STREAM_GENERATE_CONTENT,
     apiSettings,
@@ -42,6 +42,26 @@ export async function generateContentStream(
     JSON.stringify(params),
     requestOptions
   );
+}
+
+export async function generateContentStream(
+  apiSettings: ApiSettings,
+  model: string,
+  params: GenerateContentRequest,
+  chromeAdapter: ChromeAdapter,
+  requestOptions?: RequestOptions
+): Promise<GenerateContentStreamResult> {
+  let response;
+  if (await chromeAdapter.isAvailable(params)) {
+    response = await chromeAdapter.generateContentStream(params);
+  } else {
+    response = await generateContentStreamOnCloud(
+      apiSettings,
+      model,
+      params,
+      requestOptions
+    );
+  }
   return processStream(response);
 }
 
@@ -70,7 +90,7 @@ export async function generateContent(
 ): Promise<GenerateContentResult> {
   let response;
   if (await chromeAdapter.isAvailable(params)) {
-    response = await chromeAdapter.generateContentOnDevice(params);
+    response = await chromeAdapter.generateContent(params);
   } else {
     response = await generateContentOnCloud(
       apiSettings,
diff --git a/packages/vertexai/src/models/generative-model.ts b/packages/vertexai/src/models/generative-model.ts
index 0f7e408282c..81856819312 100644
--- a/packages/vertexai/src/models/generative-model.ts
+++ b/packages/vertexai/src/models/generative-model.ts
@@ -123,6 +123,7 @@ export class GenerativeModel extends VertexAIModel {
         systemInstruction: this.systemInstruction,
         ...formattedParams
       },
+      this.chromeAdapter,
       this.requestOptions
     );
   }