Laravel Toronto meet-up, Apr 24/2025

Laravel Toronto meet-up, on Apr 24, 2025 (NativePHP for iOS)

• food & beverages sponsored by Vetster.com Google Map
• Thank you to Tolga Ercan, and to everyone at Vetster, for making this meet-up happen!

A very special THANK YOU to Simon Hamp, who has graciously granted us a temporary EAP licence to NativePHP for iOS, specifically for this meet-up.

In December 2023 (was it a year-or-so ago already?!), one of our local devs did an incredible live demo of NativePHP at that meet-up. The question came up if it applied to mobile development? The answer was no, but the idea of mobile development was electric. Now, the answer is "EAP"!

We are fortunate that one of our local Artisans is taking on the task of playing with NativePHP for iOS, for the purpose of doing a live demo at this meet-up. Thank you, Kwame Boateng!

As well, Simon may join us towards the end of our meet-up for some Q&A.

Schedule: 6:00pm to 7:00pm: meet-and-greet 7:00pm to 9:00pm: Kwame Boateng's live coding demo

I do not usually exhort our local Artisans to actually click the links that I list. I put them there for reference. However, this time, I am exhorting you to go through the links before our meet-up.

Meetup.com listing: https://www.meetup.com/laravel-toronto/events/306398116/

(YouTube video of this meet-up)

Links:

Simon Hamp publiished a brilliant episode about the economics of NativePHP (Desktop and Mobile). Which is also an outstanding first-person real-time perspective on the economics of Open Source Software. There is a very obvious passion and dedication to OSS, and to PHP. I urge you to listen to this episode!

• (Podcast) "Simon Share" episode 28: Pillars (May 17, 2025)

• Kwame's short article on LinkedIn about his presentation, touching on the tech I used and the support from the community

  
  

• NativePHP website

• NativePHP for iOS and Android website

• LaraconEU 2025 talk: Simon Hamp on Building Mobile Apps with PHP

• (YouTube) Laravel News - NativePHP for iOS with Simon Hamp

• (Podcast) "Simon Shares" episode 25: NativePHP, databases and magic APIs (Feb 20, 2025)

• (YouTube) Websockets and real-time events in NativePHP for mobile

• (Podcast) "Simon Shares" episode 27: What do you mean "it's not free"!!? (March 27, 2025)

• (YouTube) APPLE APPROVED MY PHP APP ON IOS!!

• iOS 19 to be one of Apple’s biggest iPhone updates ever

• (YouTube) Building NativePHP for Mobile: Lessons learned making PHP work on iOS with Simon Hamp

• NativePHP for desktop v1 is finally here!

• (YouTube) NativePHP presentation at PHPTek 2025

(Kwame, Bob, Tolga)

(Kwame showing his demo app on iPhone)

(Kwame presenting)

(Bloor Street looking east from Holt Renfrew)

(Bloor Street West at Bay, Manulife Centre)

(Bloor and Yonge Streets, "The One" under construction, to be Canada's tallest tower)