Device Timezone Plugin

Reads the device's current IANA timezone identifier (e.g. Europe/Vienna) from a NativePHP Mobile app — the one piece of device info NativePHP core doesn't expose yet.

Installation

composer require fabianpnke/mobile-device-timezone
php artisan vendor:publish --tag=nativephp-plugins-provider
php artisan native:plugin:register fabianpnke/mobile-device-timezone
php artisan native:plugin:list

This adds \Fabianpnke\MobileDeviceTimezone\DeviceTimezoneServiceProvider::class to your plugins() array. Rebuild the app (native:run) afterwards.

Usage

use Fabianpnke\MobileDeviceTimezone\Facades\DeviceTimezone;

$identifier = DeviceTimezone::get(); // e.g. "Europe/Vienna"

if ($identifier !== null) {
    $localNow = now($identifier);
}

get() returns null when the native bridge isn't available — off-device (tests, php artisan tinker, plain php artisan serve), or on the rare platform edge case where the OS can't resolve one.

JavaScript (Vue/React/Inertia)

import { DeviceTimezone } from '@fabianpnke/mobile-device-timezone';

const identifier = await DeviceTimezone.get(); // e.g. "Europe/Vienna", or null

Platform Notes

Platform	Source
iOS	TimeZone.current.identifier
Android	TimeZone.getDefault().id

No permissions required on either platform.

Compatibility

Requires nativephp/mobile ^3.2.1 or ^4.0.