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Adding Home-Screen Quick Actions to a Rork App — dynamic items without cold-launch drops
How to implement the long-press quick actions on a Rork (Expo) app icon. Covers static vs dynamic items, the iOS/Android differences, and the cold-launch problem where the action arrives before the router is ready — solved with a hold-and-replay design.
Building StandBy-Optimized Widgets in Rork Max
A hands-on walkthrough for tuning WidgetKit widgets for StandBy mode, the landscape charging display in iOS 17+. Covers always-on dimming, night mode, and container backgrounds, including which parts of Rork Max's generated code you still have to finish by hand.
Adding a keyboard toolbar to Rork text inputs — unifying iOS InputAccessoryView and an Android bar into one component
How to add a toolbar pinned above the keyboard — a Done button or quick-insert actions — to the React Native app Rork generates. The iOS InputAccessoryView and a hand-built Android bar, folded into one reusable component, with working code.
Handling iOS Limited Photo Library Access in a Rork (Expo) App
Handle iOS limited photo library access (selected photos only) correctly in a Rork (Expo) app. Covers the three states of full / limited / denied, designing a screen that works from the selected subset, and a path to add more photos, all with working code.
When a New Architecture Migration Only Janks in Release Builds — Field Notes on Catching Silent Interop-Layer Fallback
A Rork app on the New Architecture scrolled fine in development but stuttered only in release builds on real devices. The cause: a legacy native module quietly falling back to the interop layer. Field notes on measuring it and rolling out a fix without reverting the whole app.
Rork × Vision Camera v4: A Production-Grade Camera Stack with QR, OCR, and ML Inference
Wire React Native Vision Camera v4 into a Rork project end-to-end — frame processors, ML inference, QR/OCR, plus battery and thermal tuning, a real-device test matrix, store review, and a staged rollout.
Write to NFC Tags with Rork Max: Add a Step Beyond Read-Only
The NFC apps Rork Max generates usually start with reading. But the experience really changes when you add writing. Here is how to write NDEF to a tag with CoreNFC, plus the pitfalls you can only catch on a real device.
Ship EAS Updates to a Few First, and Halt Automatically on Crash Rate
Because OTA updates reach everyone instantly, a bad update reaches everyone instantly too. Here is a three-layer design: ship EAS Update to a small canary, decide expand-or-halt from crash-free rate automatically, and hold a safety net on the device — with working code.
When your Rork app's production crashes arrive minified — wiring Hermes source maps and debug IDs into Sentry
Rork-generated Expo apps run on Hermes, so production crashes often arrive as index.bundle:1:284913 with no function names. Here is how to wire Hermes source maps and debug IDs into Sentry so your stack traces become readable.
What Rork's Browser Live Simulator Can Verify — and What Belongs on a Real Device
Rork's in-browser live simulator collapses the build-test loop dramatically, but it can't judge everything. Here's a clear, item-by-item split between what the simulator is enough for and what you must move to a real device through Companion.
Build Your Settings Screen From One Schema and Reuse It Across Apps
Hand-building a settings screen per app falls apart as your app count grows. Here is a schema-driven design that assembles the screen from declarative data and shares a common base across multiple apps, with working code.
Before a Free Preview Walks Out via Screenshot: Detecting Screenshots and Screen Recording in Rork/Expo
How to protect paid preview images from screenshots and screen recording in a Rork/Expo app: the limits of expo-screen-capture, native isCaptured monitoring, and an iOS/Android-aware blur design.