A Step by step guide to up and running PHP Laravel in android.

Requirements:

- Android Device with Android 6.0 or higher
- Termux app
- decent internet connection

Step 1:

Download and install Texmux on your android device.

Step 2:

On your device, open the Settings.
Go to Apps and open it.

Tap the ‘Termux’ app see more.

Go to “Permissions”, Allow Storage Access.

Step 3: Update Termux default repositories

Update repositories

$ cd ~
$ apt update && apt upgrade

Install core utilities

$ apt install coreutils

Install curl

$ apt install curl

Step 4: Install Git + PHP

$ apt install git php

Step 7: Install Composer

To install composer visit Composer for Termux and follow the instructions

Installation

$ curl -L https://github.com/yuloh/composer-termux/releases/download/0.0.1/composer.phar -o composer.phar
$ chmod +x ./composer.phar
$ mv ./composer.phar /data/data/com.termux/files/usr/bin/composer

NOTE: Composer scripts

Any bin scripts you install (phpunit, psysh, etc) will need to be patched to work with Termux. You can just run

$ termux-fix-shebang <my-file>

to rewrite the path. Here’s an example:

$ composer global require psy/psysh
$ termux-fix-shebang ~/.composer/vendor/bin/psysh

Step 6: Setup Storage

This will make a symlink folder at $HOME/storage or ~/storage

$ termux-setup-storage

The contents of the created $HOME/storage folder are symlinks to different storage folders:

$ ~/storage/shared

The root of the shared storage between all apps.

$ ~/storage/downloads

The standard directory for downloads from e.g. the system browser.

$ ~/storage/dcim

The traditional location for pictures and videos when mounting the device as a camera.

$ ~/storage/pictures

Standard directory in which to place pictures that are available to the user.

$ ~/storage/music

Standard directory in which to place any audio files that should be in the regular list of music for the user.

$ ~/storage/movies

Standard directory in which to place movies that are available to the user.

$ ~/storage/external

Symlink to a Termux-private folder on external storage (only if external storage is available).

Step 7: Installing Laravel

Make a directory named ‘laravel’ at ~/storage/ and cd into it

— You need to allow Termux storage permission to access your internal/external storage

$ cd ~/storage/shared
$ mkdir laravel && cd laravel

To create a new Laravel project, run the following command we name it blog:
— Installation will take a little while.

$ composer create-project --prefer-dist laravel/laravel blog

After it’s complete cd into blog directory

$ cd blog

Generate application key before serving laravel.

$ php artisan key:generate

Now run our newly created project using Laravel’s own Artisan command line interface

$ php artisan serve

Access localhost:8000 URL in the browser, should show the Laravel home screen by now.
If it doesn’t show, double check the steps above done correctly.

Step 8: Install sqlite

$ apt install sqlite

Modify laravel’s .env file to use sqlite database

DB_CONNECTION=sqlite
DB_HOST=127.0.0.1
DB_PORT=3306
DB_DATABASE=database.sqlite
DB_USERNAME=homestead
DB_PASSWORD=secret

The DB_DATABASE path points to a database.sqlite file. This file does not exist yet, so we need to create it.

$ touch database.sqlite

now go to config/database.php and modify some lines

'default' => env('DB_CONNECTION', 'mysql'),

to

'default' => env('DB_CONNECTION', 'sqlite'),

Step 9: Create Laravel’s Auth scaffolding

$ php artisan make:auth
$ php artisan migrate

Setp 10: Run Laravel

$ php artisan serve

Note: Please Update if anything missing or wrong. Thank you.