NativePHP Mobile 4.4.0#

NativePHP for Mobile 4.4.0 is out. This one’s about text that behaves like the browser, Android app links you can scope, plugins that can declare real Info.plist values, and a handful of iOS/Android fixes that were biting people in production.

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composer update nativephp/mobile
php artisan native:install
php artisan native:run

composer update nativephp/mobile
php artisan native:install
php artisan native:run

native:install has to run after the composer update and before native:run so the native shell picks up the new package.

Text that keeps its line breaks#

Native <text> now has a whitespace policy so slot content can keep line breaks, and whitespace behavior is symmetric with the browser — with whitespace-* classes when you need to opt out (#424, #425).

Android app links you control#

Apps can scope which paths open on Android app links, so you don’t have to take every deep link the OS throws at you (#403).

Native events also reach webview screens on Android now (#379).

Plugins and the iOS shell#

Info.plist entries merge structurally so plugins can declare any value type, not just strings (#427).

The iOS launch image set is emitted whole (#320), and the iOS build number is resolved before the Laravel app is bundled (#434).

Fixes#

Empty POST bodies and 404s on redirect in the iOS scheme handler (#326)
Android artisan attaches to the live TSRM instead of re-initialising (#329)
Extraction lock held across background artisan commands on Android (#330)
Review nits from #391 and #392 (#398)

Full changelog#

Emit the iOS launch image set whole (#320)
Honour a whitespace policy on <text> so slot content can keep its line breaks (#424)
Let apps scope which paths open on Android app links (#403)
Make text whitespace symmetric with the browser, with whitespace-* classes to opt out (#425)
Fix empty POST bodies and 404s on redirect in the iOS scheme handler (#326)
Attach artisan to the live TSRM instead of re-initialising (#329)
Hold the extraction lock across the background artisan commands (#330)
Merge Info.plist entries structurally so plugins can declare any value type (#427)
Deliver native events to webview screens on Android (#379)
Apply the review nits from #391 and #392 (#398)
Resolve the iOS build number before the Laravel app is bundled (#434)

Full changelog

Thanks to David Unloc, Willem Leuverink, and Shane Rosenthal.