Dramanow | Mobile App Short Drama With Laravel Admin Panel

DramaNow Android is a native Android application, written in Kotlin with Jetpack Compose, for streaming short-form vertical dramas — bingeable, episodic “micro-drama” series. Built for the fast-growing short-drama entertainment market, it pairs a fully native mobile UI with a production-ready Laravel admin panel that owns the catalogue, the coin economy and the subscription entitlements.

The app is organized around five main tabs — Discover, Shorts, Rewards, My List, and Profile — giving users a complete journey from finding a series to binge-watching it episode by episode. Browse a curated, multi-genre catalog of short dramas, tap into a vertical full-screen episode player built on Media3 ExoPlayer, and keep watching where you left off. A built-in coin economy, daily check-ins, rewarded ads, and a VIP subscription unlock premium episodes and remove ads.

Backend included

The package ships the Laravel admin panel and mobile API (short-drama-admin-panel): a PHP/Laravel application with an admin dashboard, database migrations and seeders, a demo catalogue, and the /api/v1/ REST API the app talks to. It also ships a multi-language streaming website. If you already run on classic PHP/MySQL hosting, everything you need is in the box.

Key Value Propositions

• For End Users: Discover trending short dramas across multiple genres, watch free preview episodes, unlock more with coins earned from daily check-ins and rewarded ads or with a VIP subscription, save series to My List, and pick up right where you left off with Continue Watching.
• For Binge-Watchers: A distraction-free vertical player with episode auto-advance, resume positions, multi-language dubs and subtitles, likes, and new-episode follow alerts.
• For App Owners / Developers: A complete, monetizable streaming product with VIP subscriptions, a coin/rewards economy, rewarded, banner and interstitial ads, 7 colour presets, 5 onboarding layouts, 7 paywall variants, push notifications, a marketing analytics funnel and remote configuration — plus the Laravel admin panel so you can manage the catalog your way.

Content Disclosure

DramaNow ships as a complete streaming platform with a demo catalog so you can run it end-to-end out of the box:

• Demo series artwork uses placeholder images that you replace with your own poster and hero key-art.
• Demo episodes use sample videos so playback works during testing — you replace these with your own licensed video content.
• The full catalog (genres, series, seasons, episodes, and home shelves) is managed entirely by you.

You are responsible for the drama content you distribute. DramaNow provides the app, backend, and catalog tooling; sourcing and licensing the actual videos is up to you.

Disclaimer

This app is built to work with the included Laravel web API / admin panel, plus third-party services: Firebase (Auth, Remote Config, Analytics, Crashlytics, FCM), RevenueCat (VIP subscriptions), OneSignal (push), and optional AdMob ads (banner, interstitial & rewarded). Hosting accounts and streaming/CDN costs are not included in the purchase — you will need to create your own accounts, configure API keys, and manage usage yourself. Basic familiarity with Android Studio, Firebase, PHP/MySQL hosting and Play Console setup is recommended before launching.