What if your Symfony application could power both the web and native mobile apps, without rewriting everything in Swift, Kotlin, or React Native?
In this talk, we’ll see how Symfony, combined with Hotwire Native, enables a write-once, ship-everywhere approach. Starting from a classic Symfony web application, we’ll show how to reuse the same backend, views, and business logic to deliver native iOS and Android apps that are performant and maintainable.
We’ll cover in particular:
• The architecture of Hotwire Native and its integration with Symfony
• Sharing code between web and mobile
• Concrete use cases (QR code, NFC, document scanning)
• Trade-offs compared to 100% native or React Native approaches
This talk is aimed at Symfony developers, CTOs, and tech leads who want to launch mobile applications faster, reduce maintenance costs, and keep a simple stack without sacrificing user experience.