A few days ago was released a project to build applications based on Android with PHP.

This project allows us to build apps for Google’s operating system with the most popular scripting language (PHP). With this project the PHP developers will be able to run PHP in every device based on Android.

The phpforandroid.net project was build over the Android Scripting Environemnt (ASE) which was renamed to Scripting Layer for Android (SL4A), which allows developers to run scripting languages like PHP and Phyton.

The project is at its beginning and for sure it will evolve with the time and the community’s help. I was playing a little bit and it works perfectly so far.

The project also has a really good documentation and we can use an Android emulator to test out apps.

Here there is a video that shows how phpforandroid works: