DramaNow | Flutter App Short Drama Platform

DramaNow is a cross-platform Flutter mobile application (iOS & Android) for streaming short-form vertical dramas — bingeable, episodic “micro-drama” series. Built for the fast-growing short-drama entertainment market, it combines a polished native mobile UI with a production-ready backend powered by Laravel, Firebase Remote Config, and RevenueCat subscriptions.

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, 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.

Test card: all six web payment providers can be checked in test mode with card number 4242 4242 4242 4242, any future expiry date and any CVC.

Backend (included)

The mobile app runs on the backend included in the package:

• Laravel admin / Web API — the included short-drama-admin-panel platform: a PHP/Laravel web app with an admin dashboard, database migrations + seeders, and a mobile REST API the app can talk to. It also ships a multi-language streaming website with web checkout through six payment providers, a media library backed by nine storage providers and any CDN, editable email templates and Google / Facebook sign-in.

Key Value Propositions

• For End Users: Discover trending short dramas across 12 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 ads, multiple color themes, onboarding layouts, paywall variants, push notifications, analytics, and remote configuration — plus the included Laravel admin / web API 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 (MySQL) — plus third-party services: Firebase (Remote Config, Analytics, Crashlytics), RevenueCat (VIP subscriptions), OneSignal (push), and optional AdMob ads (banner & 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 Firebase, Laravel deployment, and mobile store setup is recommended before launching.

AI Studio example content

A short drama generated end to end with AI Studio is live on the demo:
https://drama.laravelbeginner.net/en/series/the-fake-fiancees-revenge

Laravel web + admin

https://drama.laravelbeginner.net/en
https://drama.laravelbeginner.net/en/dashboard

Example login:

• Email: admin@dramanow.test
• Password: password123456

What’s Included

• Full Flutter application source code (drama_now)
• Laravel web platform + admin dashboard + mobile Web API (short-drama-admin-panel) — the backend for the app, with migrations and a demo-catalog seeder
• 7 built-in app color themes and 5 onboarding layout variants
• 7 paywall layout variants
• 12-language localization (ar, de, en, es, fr, it, ja, ko, pt, ru, tr, zh)
• A demo catalog of 40 series across 12 genres with 400+ episodes and 8 home shelves
• Complete detailed documentation — Firebase, Laravel web/API, RevenueCat, and store release

Key Features

• Discover Feed: Featured hero banners, curated carousels, ranking lists, new releases, and a genre grid.
• Shorts / For You: A vertical spotlight stream of recommended series.
• Vertical Episode Player: Full-screen playback, resume position, auto-advance, likes, and sharing.
• Series Detail: Synopsis, badges (HOT, NEW, VIP, EXCLUSIVE, DUBBED), episode list, and multi-language dubs.
• Search & Categories: Search across the catalog and browse by any of 12 genres.
• Coins & Rewards: 7-day daily check-in, reward tasks, and rewarded ads to earn coins.
• Episode Unlocking: Free preview episodes, coin-locked episodes, and VIP-only content.
• My List: Save series to a collection and continue watching across devices.
• VIP Subscriptions: Weekly/monthly/yearly plans via RevenueCat that unlock all episodes and remove ads.
• User Accounts: Quick anonymous start with optional Google, Apple, or email sign-in and data migration.
• Settings & Personalization: Light/dark theme, 7 color presets, and 12 languages.
• Monetization Ready: VIP subscriptions, a coin economy, rewarded & banner AdMob ads, 7 paywall layouts, and conversion analytics built in.
• Website in 11 Languages: English, Turkish, German, Spanish, Italian, Arabic (right to left), Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese.
• Web Checkout — 6 Payment Providers: sell coins and VIP from the website through Stripe, Lemon Squeezy, Polar, Paddle, Creem or Dodo Payments. Pick one in .env, test the credentials from the admin panel, and sync every plan and coin pack to it in one click. Webhooks are signature-checked and fulfilment is idempotent, so a payment grants exactly once.
• Media Library with 9 Storage Back Ends & CDN: upload covers, trailers and episodes in the admin panel and keep them on this server, Cloudflare R2, Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces, Backblaze B2, Wasabi, Google Cloud Storage, MinIO or Bunny Storage — with Cloudflare, Bunny, CloudFront or any other CDN in front. Attach files to a series or episode with a picker instead of pasting links, and switch provider later without editing a single row.
• Editable Email Templates: verification code, welcome, password reset, purchase receipt and subscription mails, all editable with a live preview and your own branding. SMTP, Amazon SES, Mailgun or Postmark, configured from the admin panel and testable from it.
• Social Login: Google and Facebook sign-in on the website and in the app, with email-code verification before the first session, and account linking rather than duplicates.
• AI Studio — Short Drama Generator: write a premise in a few sentences and AI plans the series, writes every episode’s shot list, draws a reference sheet for each main character, and films the shots in vertical 9:16 with dialogue and sound — Kling, Veo, Seedance, Wan, Runway and more, through fal, Replicate, Wiro or the providers’ own APIs. Shots are joined into finished episodes automatically. You review and edit the plan before anything is filmed, refilm any shot, then publish it as a series — priced and streamed like any other. 20 languages, 6 looks, and spending capped per project and per month.

Important Notice to Our Valued Customers

We are committed to building a reliable and continuous business system, with your satisfaction and the success of this product as our top priorities. Your feedback is crucial, and we encourage you to share any bugs, suggestions, or new feature ideas. Your input directly supports our ongoing improvement and innovation. We’re here to help — feel free to contact us anytime via the CodeCanyon messaging system. Thank you for being part of our journey.
Warm regards,
The Morningstarcode Team