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SDK58 — The Expo SDK 58 beta is open. It ships the React Native 0.88 release candidate, and the beta period is stated as three to four weeks11/01 — For anyone who requested an extension, Google Play's target API deadline lands on November 1. Forty-four days outEASENV — A long-open report: secrets handed to a local build arrive as the literal variable name rather than its value, and the damage surfaces much laterNEW — The replacement the table recommended had already shut down. A record of reconciling all 74 rows of the deprecation listUISCENE — iOS 27 requires the new scene lifecycle. SDK 57 makes it something you opt into; it only becomes the default in 58CREDIT — What "AI errors don't cost credits" actually covers becomes clear once you record a day of asking for the same fix more than onceSDK58 — The Expo SDK 58 beta is open. It ships the React Native 0.88 release candidate, and the beta period is stated as three to four weeks11/01 — For anyone who requested an extension, Google Play's target API deadline lands on November 1. Forty-four days outEASENV — A long-open report: secrets handed to a local build arrive as the literal variable name rather than its value, and the damage surfaces much laterNEW — The replacement the table recommended had already shut down. A record of reconciling all 74 rows of the deprecation listUISCENE — iOS 27 requires the new scene lifecycle. SDK 57 makes it something you opt into; it only becomes the default in 58CREDIT — What "AI errors don't cost credits" actually covers becomes clear once you record a day of asking for the same fix more than once
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AI Models/2026-04-16Beginner

Rork Companion: Building Apps With an AI Pair Programmer

How to use Rork Companion effectively across the full development cycle — from shaping a vague app idea into a concrete spec, through implementation, debugging, and learning from generated code.

AI Models/2026-04-15Intermediate

Rork × Vercel AI SDK: Implement Streaming, Tool Calling, and Structured Outputs with Full Type Safety

Learn how to integrate the Vercel AI SDK into your Rork app for streaming chat, tool calling, and structured outputs — all with complete TypeScript type safety using Cloudflare Workers and Hono.

AI Models/2026-04-14Intermediate

Rork × Claude Code Review Flow: A Practical Guide to Polishing AI-Generated Mobile App Code

Learn how to use Claude Code as a code reviewer for Rork-generated React Native apps. Covers common pitfalls — missing error handling, memory leaks, weak TypeScript types — with concrete Before/After examples.

AI Models/2026-04-14Intermediate

What Claude Mythos's 93.9% SWE-Bench Score Actually Means for Indie App Developers

Claude Mythos scored 93.9% on SWE-Bench Verified — and it's not publicly available yet. But what that benchmark reveals about the direction of AI coding tools has direct implications for how indie developers should be working right now.

AI Models/2026-04-14Advanced

Building an AI-Powered Video Editor App with Rork Max: Auto Subtitles, Highlight Detection, and Stripe Monetization

An implementation log from building an AI video editor with Rork Max: TUS resumable uploads on Supabase Storage, Whisper subtitle generation, Gemini highlight detection and the 100MB boundary nobody warns you about, plus Stripe credit billing.

AI Models/2026-04-12Advanced

Building an AI Photo Editor App with Rork — Filters, Background Removal, and Style Transfer in Production

Implementation notes from building an AI photo editor with Rork — non-destructive editing, background removal with fallbacks, style transfer, and picking preview resolution from device memory, with working code and the reasoning behind each call.

AI Models/2026-04-11Intermediate

Monetizing a Rork AI App: Pricing Backwards from Your Cost of Goods

How to design pricing for a Rork-built AI app by starting from per-user API cost rather than revenue. Covers the margin math behind freemium, subscription and credit models, a RevenueCat paywall in Expo, graceful quota handling, and the five metrics worth checking weekly.

AI Models/2026-04-11Intermediate

Claude Mythos Preview: What App Developers Need to Know About the Future of AI

A look at Anthropic's Claude Mythos Preview and what its advanced coding, security, and reasoning capabilities mean for mobile app developers building with Rork.

AI Models/2026-04-11Intermediate

How Claude Mythos Could Transform App Development: Security, Agents, and What's Next

An honest look at what Claude Mythos means for app developers: autonomous vulnerability discovery, long-horizon coding agents, and how to think about integrating Mythos-class capabilities into mobile development workflows.

AI Models/2026-04-10Intermediate

Rork × Gemini 2.5 Flash Integration Guide — Build Ultra-Responsive AI Apps at Minimal Cost

Learn how to integrate Gemini 2.5 Flash (with Thinking support) into your Rork Max app. Achieve up to 5x faster responses vs Pro models and reduce AI costs by 70% while maintaining quality.

AI Models/2026-04-10Advanced

Building an AI Personalization Engine with Rork Max — Adaptive UI, Smart Content Ranking, and Notification Timing That Learns from Every User

An advanced guide to building an AI-powered personalization engine in Rork Max. Learn how to collect user behavior data, build real-time learning pipelines, dynamically optimize UI layouts and content delivery, and automate notification timing — with the production lessons I learned running wallpaper and calming-tone apps solo for over a decade.

AI Models/2026-04-10Intermediate

Improving Quality of Rork AI Native App Generation: SwiftUI Output Pitfalls

When Rork AI's SwiftUI output misses, the thing to fix is usually the instruction, not the code. Here is what happened when I regenerated one screen three ways and counted the round trips, plus the device conditions worth locking down before you send a screenshot.