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React Native and Expo techniques, build-error and crash troubleshooting, and API integrations that help you take Rork-generated code to production quality.
Rork Max × Apple TipKit — Designing In-App Guidance That Cuts Onboarding Drop-Off
Wire Apple's TipKit framework into a Rork Max app via Expo Modules to ship contextual in-app guidance that meaningfully reduces onboarding drop-off — with eligibility rules, localization, CloudKit sync, and analytics covered end to end.
Five Things to Check First When Geolocation Stops Working in Your Rork App
Geolocation looks easy until it doesn't work. This guide walks through the five most common reasons your Rork app can't read the user's location — from a missing app.json plugin block to subtle simulator quirks.
Why the Android Back Button Stops Working in Your Rork App — A BackHandler Field Guide
When testers tap the Android back button, your Rork app exits unexpectedly, jumps to the wrong screen, or refuses to dismiss a modal. Here are the five most common BackHandler pitfalls in Expo Router projects, with working code for each.
Keep Rork-Generated UI From Drifting: A Practical Visual Regression Workflow with Storybook and Chromatic
A field-tested guide to wiring Storybook for React Native and Chromatic into a Rork project so you can spot AI-induced UI regressions before they ship — covering install pitfalls, story design, GitHub Actions, and a review workflow built for AI-generated code.
Don't Ship Rork Apps With an Empty EXPO_PUBLIC_RORK_AUTH_URL — A Practical Setup Walkthrough
What to put in EXPO_PUBLIC_RORK_AUTH_URL when Rork generates an app with login, and how to wire it up across dev, EAS Build, and production safely.
Why Your Rork Modal Won't Close — 5 Common Pitfalls and How to Fix Them
The close button doesn't fire, tapping the backdrop does nothing, and buttons inside the modal feel dead. In Rork-generated React Native code, eight times out of ten the cause is one of these five patterns.
Usage-Based Billing for Rork AI Apps with Stripe Meter — Charge by API Calls and Tokens, Not Flat Rates
Implement usage-based billing in your Rork AI app with Stripe Meter — meter setup, Cloudflare Workers reporting, retry queues, event aggregation, and how to choose between metered billing and prepaid credits.
Build a Store Finder App with Rork Using Google Places API: A Practical Location Integration Guide
Learn how to build a location-based store finder app with Rork and Google Places API. Covers current location access, nearby place search, and map markers — with working code and real troubleshooting tips.
App Crashes After App Store Release But Not on TestFlight — 4 Common Causes
Your Rork app worked perfectly on TestFlight, but crashes after App Store release. Here are the 4 most common causes and how to fix each one.
Mobile Attribution for Rork Apps — A Production Guide to AppsFlyer, Adjust, SKAdNetwork 4.0, and ATT
A complete walkthrough of wiring AppsFlyer or Adjust into a Rork (Expo + React Native) app, designing SKAdNetwork 4.0 conversion values, building a high-opt-in ATT prompt, and integrating deep links — with copy-paste code and the pitfalls I hit in production.
How Rork Max's SwiftUI Generation Talks to Its AI Layer — 7 Prompt Patterns That Shift Output Quality
Rork Max's SwiftUI generation and its AI capabilities are not two separate features — they share the same underlying model. Here are 7 prompt patterns I rely on to nudge the same model toward production-ready output, with before-and-after SwiftUI examples.
Adding iOS 26 Liquid Glass to Rork Max Apps — What I Learned After Three Real Apps
I shipped three Rork Max apps that adopt iOS 26 Liquid Glass. Here is what actually works in production: where to apply glassEffect, how to fall back on iOS 25, and the three most common ways the new material breaks your UI.
Outgrowing RevenueCat: A Self-Hosted Guide to App Store Server Notifications V2 for Rork Apps
A complete implementation guide for receiving App Store Server Notifications V2 in Cloudflare Workers without RevenueCat — covering JWS verification, idempotent state updates, user binding, and production testing for Rork apps.
Why Your Rork App Icon Won't Update — Cache Fixes for iOS and Android
Replaced your Rork app icon but still seeing the old one? Walk through the layered causes — iOS SpringBoard cache, EAS Build cache, missing Android adaptive icons — and the exact fixes that get the new icon to stick.
Rork Companion Won't Sync or Connect: A Diagnostic Guide
How to diagnose Rork Companion connection failures, QR login issues, and stale previews — symptom-by-symptom on both iOS and Android.
Skeleton Screens in Rork Apps — Practical Patterns for Better Perceived Performance
If your Rork app still shows a spinner on a blank screen during load, you are leaving a lot of perceived performance on the table. Here is how I drop skeleton screens and shimmer effects into Rork-generated React Native code without over-engineering it.
Getting a 1GB Video Out of a Rork App Without Losing It — TUS, S3 Multipart, and Background Transfers
A production-ready implementation guide for uploading 1GB+ videos and high-resolution photos from Rork apps. Covers the TUS protocol, S3/R2 Multipart Upload, iOS background transfers, and a resumable progress UI — all with working code.
Connecting Rork Apps to Zapier — Automate Notifications and Data Sync Without a Backend
Learn how to connect your Rork app to Zapier via Webhooks to automate welcome emails, form data storage, and purchase notifications — no dedicated backend required.
Is a Rork-Generated App Really Lighter? Separating the ML Optimization Rumors From What You Can Measure
Why Rork-generated apps often feel light, split into what can be confirmed and what is only guesswork. Includes a hands-on routine for measuring bundle size, cold start, and list rendering in your own project, plus guardrails for keeping performance after you add hand-written code.
Building CarPlay Support for Rork Apps — Entitlements, CPTemplate APIs, and Winning App Store Review
What it actually took to get CarPlay support shipped on a Rork-built app — writing the entitlement request, configuring UIScenes, choosing CPTemplate APIs, sharing data through App Groups, and the review notes I only learned about the hard way, with category-specific design notes for audio, navigation, and messaging.
Rork WebView Is Blank or Won't Load: 6 Causes to Check Before You Ship
Dropped a WebView into your Rork app and got a silent blank screen on device? Here's the checklist I run through, in the order that catches the most bugs first.
When Your Rork App Binary Tops 150MB: 5 Causes to Isolate and a Step-by-Step Slim-Down Plan
My Rork-built app archived at 172MB and App Store Connect stopped me cold. Here is how I broke the bloat into 5 measurable causes and got it down to 69MB — including the three cuts that backfired.
Diagnosing Metro Bundler Freezes and Broken Fast Refresh in Rork Apps
When your Rork-generated Expo app stops picking up code changes or Metro freezes mid-bundle, here is the diagnostic order and the safe reset steps that actually work.
Rork × AdMob UMP × ATT Consent Management for Production — Keeping Revenue Alive in Global Releases
A production playbook for wiring UMP and ATT into your Rork app so you stay GDPR-compliant while protecting AdMob revenue, with working code throughout.
Optimizing Machine Learning in Rork Max Apps — Core ML Integration, Per-Device Tuning, Quantization, Size Reduction
A complete playbook for integrating Core ML into SwiftUI apps generated by Rork Max: model conversion, quantization, Neural Engine targeting, battery management, and per-device tuning — written at the implementation level, not the marketing one.
Rork Max × Xcode — A Pro Workflow for Native Optimization After Generation
Taking a Rork Max SwiftUI project to shippable quality in Xcode, narrowed to three things: how to read Instruments, a regeneration branch layout that survives merges, and the privacy manifest that gets builds bounced.
Reanimated Worklet Errors in Rork Apps — Six Things to Check Before You Panic
React Native Reanimated throws a lot of worklet errors the moment you add it to a Rork project. This walkthrough covers the six most common causes, from a missing Babel plugin to closure capture bugs, in the order you should investigate them.
Rork Max SwiftUI Output Won't Build in Xcode — A Symptom-Based Recovery Guide
When Rork Max's generated SwiftUI project fails to build in Xcode, the right fix depends on the exact error. This guide walks through the common failure modes — dependency resolution, Info.plist, entitlements, bundle ID conflicts — with targeted recovery steps for each.
Cut First-Day Drop-off by Half — A Data-Driven Onboarding Design Note for Rork Apps
How do you actually lower the 24-hour drop-off on a Rork-built app? This is a working solo developer's notes — measurement funnel, onboarding cuts I made, and the weekly cadence I use to iterate.
Pairing Rork with Convex for a Type-Safe Reactive Backend — From Subscriptions to File Handling
A complete, production-oriented guide to wiring Convex into a Rork-generated React Native app. Schema design, reactive subscriptions, file uploads, Clerk auth, cron jobs, and the pitfalls you only find after shipping.
Adding Sign in with Apple to Your Rork App — What Review Actually Requires and Where People Get Stuck
A practical walkthrough for adding Sign in with Apple to an existing Rork app. Covers the exact Guideline 4.8 requirements that reject Google/Facebook-only apps, the non-obvious parts of expo-apple-authentication, backend token verification with identityToken, and the account deletion requirement most tutorials skip.
Why Your Rork App Can't Save Images to the Camera Roll — A Complete Fix
Image and video saving often breaks the moment a Rork-generated app leaves the simulator. This guide walks through the permission model, expo-media-library quirks, and Android 13+ scoped storage changes that reliably trip people up.
State Updated in Rork But UI Won't Re-render? Five Patterns and Fixes
setState is firing in your Rork-generated code but the UI refuses to update. Five common root causes — mutation, stale closures, Zustand selectors, missed dependencies, unmounted updates — each with Before/After code.
Using Notion as a CMS Backend for Rork Apps — Auth, Block Rendering, Rate Limits, and the 1-Hour Image URL Problem
Put Notion behind your Rork app. Pick the right auth model, render Notion blocks safely, survive the 1-hour image URL expiry, and stay under the API rate limit — a production-grade walkthrough.
Eliminating Flicker and Scroll Conflicts in Pull-to-Refresh for Rork Apps
If pull-to-refresh in your Rork app flashes white, jumps to the top, or leaves the spinner hanging, the fix is almost always in how refreshing state and scroll view nesting are handled. Here are the patterns that make it feel solid.
Designing Rork Apps That Don't Let Users Down on Bad-Signal Days — UX Patterns for Unstable Networks
After shipping a Rork app, the #1 reason I was losing review stars wasn't a crash — it was 'the screen just stays blank.' Here's how I redesign loading, empty, and error states so the experience gracefully degrades on flaky connections.
Integrating Siri and Shortcuts into Rork Apps: App Intents with Expo, Without the Pitfalls
A production-grade guide to adding Siri Shortcuts and App Intents to a React Native app generated by Rork. Bridge native Swift via an Expo Config Plugin, model AppShortcut / AppEntity / EntityQuery correctly, and ship Donations and Control Center widgets without breaking Apple's conventions.
The 5 Machine Learning Optimizations That Make Rork's AI Code Generation Fast
Why does Rork generate code faster and more reliably than other AI app builders? After three months of measuring and observing, here are five machine learning optimizations quietly working behind the scenes.
Fixing Stuck Splash Screens and White Flash on Launch in Rork Apps
Fixes for the four most common Rork splash screen bugs: a splash that refuses to hide, a white flash on launch, Android 12+ cropping, and dark-mode mismatches.
FlatList Renders Blank in Rork? A Calm, Ordered Way to Debug Empty Lists
When a FlatList in your Rork-generated app shows nothing at all, the cause is usually a handful of very specific things. Here's the order I check them in, based on bugs I've actually shipped and fixed.