Simon
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👋🏼 I'm Simon. Nice to meet you. Come say hi, my DMs are open 🧪 Creator of @NativePHP.com 👩💻 I run @Laradevs.com 🌐 simonhamp.me
Last week was #LaraconUS 2026. It was also our inaugural event: The Vibes Come read Shane's summary post about the day: nativephp.com/blog/the-vibes
The Vibes
We hosted The Vibes, our first in-person event, where we launched NativePHP v4.0 "SuperNative" with over 100 NativePHP community members. Talks, Tesseract, Plugins, and celebrating PHP's future.
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Composer & Packagist now have a sponsorship program. Thank you to our launch sponsors 🤝 Aikido, AWS, Socket, Bunny, Upsun, Sonatype, Tideways, Datadog and Algolia help fund our shared infrastructure. blog.packagist.com/announcing-... #php #phpc #composerphp
Are you at #LaraconUS? Come find one of us, buy a hat, and show it off on socials tagging NativePHP and get a chance to win some AirPod Pro 3's Everyone who tags us wearing a hat also gets a discount code for Ultra
The Vibes is happening in 4 days!!! There are still some tickets left 🎉 nativephp.com/the-vibes
NativePHP
Build native applications, with the tools you already know.
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Underestimating the power of our elephant-shaped language is easy. Our latest video is a deep dive into how PHP went from the wild west of the web to a serious, modern language. 🎥 Here is a sneak peek - make sure to check the full interview with @secondej.bsky.social on our channel! #php
Did you know that you don't need a paid Apple Developer account to test your apps on a real iPhone? Learn how in this free lesson from our upcoming Masterclass! youtu.be/4HZGZgqR_eg
The NativePHP Masterclass - Free Lesson - Running your App on a Real iPhone
How to set up your Apple Mac and iPhone for developing and testing your NativePHP apps on your real device.
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SuperNative is coming! The docs are shaping up and already available on nativephp.com Check them out: nativephp.com/docs/mobile/4
NativePHP
Build native applications, with the tools you already know.
nativephp.com
The first module of the NativePHP Masterclass is almost ready! 🔥 Prepare your mind/body/soul; watch a free lesson on YouTube: youtu.be/zczcRpgnBuI
The NativePHP Masterclass - Free Lesson - The Jump App
The Jump app is the easiest way to try NativePHP. Simply `composer require nativephp/mobile` into your Laravel application and run `php artisan native:jump`. With the Jump app installed on your…
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Last thing I tried: an offline field-service app in NativePHP SuperNative. It’s super cool to see PHP come into the mobile space. I never thought it would be so great.
I played with NativePHP SuperNative again. Fully native UI. From PHP. Fast and familiar. I made a few tiny fake apps to see how real it can feel. I’ll share one each day this week.
HUGE thanks to Jump24 for sponsoring our T-shirts for The Vibes 🙏 Did you know they're a Premier Laravel Partner? Check them out: jump24.co.uk
Is your company looking for affordable exposure to developers in the mobile / Laravel / PHP space? Come and see what a month of NativePHP sponsorship could do! Our DMs are open if you have questions 🤙🏼 buff.ly/XyVnbx5
NativePHP - Corporate Sponsor - Open Collective
Livestream (2k+ subs), Newsletter (2k+ subs), Website (100k+ pvs/mth), Social (15k+ follows)
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Want to sponsor The Vibes? There's only a few weeks left! nativephp.com/the-vibes-pr...
NativePHP
Build native applications, with the tools you already know.
nativephp.com
Sometimes it feels like if you don't "conform" to some image of success you won't be taken seriously by your peers or your customers This is why a lot of people and companies, brands and websites all end up looking kinda the same But the truth is performance matters more than conformance
Let us help you build your apps Yes, we'll be using PHP and Laravel But they'll be: • Fully native to each platform • Beautiful experiences • Perfect for your users nativephp.com/build-my-app
We couldn't be more proud to have Artisan Build as a Sponsor! And they've said some very nice things about us: artisan.build/nativephp
Are you ready for your next free lesson from the NativePHP Masterclass? Watch it right here! Plugins Overview by @shrutibalasa.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q56t...
The NativePHP Masterclass - Free Lesson - Plugins Overview
YouTube video by NativePHP
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Laravel 13 support is now available for my NativePHP mobile plugins. Small oops: I forgot to widen the constraints when Laravel 13 shipped. Fixed now 😁 Update to Calendar/Contacts/Screenshots v1.1.1 and Screen v1.0.2.
The Jump app v2 is out for Android and iPhone 🎉 And it's never been easier to try NativePHP Plus there's a sneaky free surprise for everyone! 👀 See if you can find it: nativephp.com/blog/bifrost...
Bifrost Jump v2 is out. And it's everywhere!
Jump v2 is now available in the app stores. Run your Laravel app as a native app in seconds. Stay to the end for a surprise!
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🎙️ Just published a new episode of Simon Shares: Football. Have a listen:
Football
it's brief!
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We've got exciting news! 🤩 The wonderful @shrutibalasa.com is going to be your teacher on the NativePHP Masterclass 🎉 It's the most in-depth and practical course for building native apps with NativePHP First lessons available very soon! Don't miss out nativephp.com/course youtu.be/HO9zbS2dM7M
The NativePHP Masterclass - Teaser
YouTube video by NativePHP
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First there was Max Then came Mini and Pro Annual licenses for NativePHP Mobile Last month we released Air, making it free for everyone Today we release Ultra, the optional subscription that lets you get the most out of everything NativePHP nativephp.com/ultra
NativePHP
Build native applications, with the tools you already know.
nativephp.com
🚨🚨🚨 EARLY BIRD ENDS TOMORROW🚨🚨🚨 Don't miss the sweetest deal on all that goodness! nativephp.com/the-vibes
NativePHP
Build native applications, with the tools you already know.
nativephp.com
It's now even easier to support NativePHP and keep us open source and free: Our GitHub Sponsors profile just got approved 🎉 github.com/sponsors/Nat...
Sponsor @NativePHP on GitHub Sponsors
Support NativePHP!
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THIS IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST PERFORMANCE LEAP WE'VE EVER SHIPPED 🏎️💨 NativePHP for Mobile v3.1 — over 10x performance improvement Smaller binaries, ICU for iOS, PHP 8.3 & 8.5 support, Android Oreo+ and wayyyyy more 🔥 nativephp.com/blog/nativep...
⚡ NativePHP v3.1: The Biggest Performance Leap Yet
v3.1 brings a persistent PHP runtime, background queue workers, Android 8+ support, iOS ICU/Intl, and dramatically faster response times. This is the update that changes everything.
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We just hit a HUGE milestone Total downloads of the paid version of NativePHP Mobile is 19,751 in 408 days Air (the free & open source version) just hit 19,779 downloads... In just 46 days 🤯 🔥🔥🔥
