Welcome to the NativePHP Creator Series. I'm Simon, and I'm gonna be taking you through exactly how we can set up native PHP to build desktop and mobile applications. That's right. You can now use PHP to build apps for Mac, windows, Linux, iOS, and Android. And we're not just talking about apps that live on a server that can be run from those devices over the internet. We're talking about native applications

that can be run from those devices over the internet. We're talking about native applications that can be installed directly onto your user's devices and interact directly with native features. This is an incredible advancement in PHP. That's only been possible in the last couple of years because it's very different from what we've been doing with PHP and Laravel so far. I say it's very different. We've worked really hard to make sure

I say it's very different. We've worked really hard to make sure that it's actually very similar and very easy and approachable, but there are some fundamentals that we should be clear on before we dive in. Otherwise, it could be a little bit confusing because this is quite paradigm shift in the way that we're used to doing things, and I'm extremely privileged to be able to share this with you via Laracasts.

and I'm extremely privileged to be able to share this with you via Laracasts. Get your mind ready. We're gonna talk for a few minutes and then we'll get down to building our first applications.