# NativePHP/mobile-air

Create mobile applications with PHP

Repository: https://github.com/NativePHP/mobile-air
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/mobile-air
Homepage: https://nativephp.com
Language: C
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Topics: laravel, mobile-apps, nativephp, nativephp-mobile, php, android, ios
Last push: 2026-08-31T23:13:59+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 83/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 100, release rhythm 99, longevity 16
- inputs: {"age_days": 225, "days_push": 2, "days_rel": 5, "gap_med": 3.0, "n_releases_24m": 27}
- flags: none
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1166, forks 81 (observed 2026-09-01T02:13:55.848343+00:00)

## What it is
NativePHP for Mobile is a framework that lets Laravel/PHP developers build truly native iOS and Android apps from a single codebase, using an embedded PHP runtime inside a Swift/Kotlin shell. Its SuperNative engine renders Blade templates directly to native SwiftUI and Jetpack Compose views without a web view, and provides access to native device APIs via a plugin system.

## Use cases
- build an iOS and Android app with PHP and Laravel
- ship a mobile app without learning Swift or Kotlin
- run a Laravel application natively on a phone offline
- access camera, biometrics, and push notifications from PHP
- render native mobile UI from Blade templates
- port an existing Laravel web app to mobile

## When to choose
- you or your team already know PHP and Laravel and want to build mobile apps
- you want truly native UI and performance rather than a web view
- you need one codebase targeting both iOS and Android
- you want offline-first apps with on-device background tasks and queues

## When to avoid
- you need pixel-perfect identical UI across platforms from a custom renderer
- your team is more productive in Swift, Kotlin, or Flutter/React Native
- you need deep customization of the native shell or platform build pipeline
- you require a large ecosystem of third-party mobile libraries from native ecosystems

## Facets
- artifact type: framework
- maturity: active
- function: mobile-framework, templating, plugin-system, ui-components
- domain: mobile-development, cross-platform, web-development, developer-tools
- platform: php, cross-platform
- tags: laravel, nativephp, supernative, embedded-php-runtime, native-ui, blade, swiftui, jetpack-compose, push-notifications, offline-first, ios, android, mobile

## Member repositories
- NativePHP/mobile-air (main) score 83

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-09-01T02:13:55.848343+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T06:33:25.863546+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/NativePHP/mobile-air (fetched 2026-09-01T02:13:55.848343+00:00, sha d806b5f82423)
  - homepage: https://nativephp.com (fetched 2026-08-29T12:37:59.256449+00:00, sha 3270116c49c9)
  - site_page: https://nativephp.com/docs/mobile/4/architecture/super-native (fetched 2026-08-29T12:37:59.265608+00:00, sha c577b7048945)
  - site_page: https://nativephp.com/docs/mobile/getting-started/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T12:37:59.267926+00:00, sha 0e53f3d692ef)
  - site_page: https://nativephp.com/docs/desktop/getting-started/introduction (fetched 2026-08-29T12:37:59.269863+00:00, sha 0f13f0bf680c)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.