I've been browsing around for a converting service to turn a Laravel site into a mobile app, came across a few options. But was wondering if the Laravel community had any preferred services or guides for something like this.
Simply put, the site is already mobile view friendly, web-based, and just looking for a guide or service that can help me with the process of getting it into the play store and app store for better accessibility. I would prefer to not re-write any code, and just either convert it or use a wrapper around the web based site instead.
Any info would be appreciated.
Thank you
@meloku There isn’t such a service, as Laravel is PHP-based and runs on a service, and mobile apps run on a client (i.e. the user’s mobile device).
You’ll need to make actual mobile apps using an appropriate technology (Flutter is good for creating both iOS and Android apps from a single codebase). You can get the data for the app via an API exposed by your Laravel app.
Apple usually rejects apps that are nothing but a web view wrapped in a native app. I can’t speak for Android/Google.
What Martin said
You could make it into a PWA by adding a manifest.json file. Then you should be able to add it to the app stores. Not sure how easy it is as I've never done it myself.
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