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Rork × Firebase Remote Config: Tuning AdMob Safely in Production — Run App Open Frequency Caps Without a Release
From the experience of pushing wallpaper-app App Open ads too hard and watching DAU drop, here is a design for treating AdMob format mix, frequency caps, and exclusions as a Firebase Remote Config contract. Expo/Rork wiring, fail-safe defaults, A/B testing, and metric joins included.
Fixing Linking.canOpenURL False Returns on iOS in Rork
Production iOS builds silently route every user to the mobile web instead of opening TikTok or X? This is almost always a missing LSApplicationQueriesSchemes entry. Here is the full fix path for Rork.
Three Weeks of Adjusting a Rork-Generated App for iPad: Design Notes
After building a small iPhone app with Rork, I opened it on my iPad Air and found more rough edges than I expected. Here are the concrete adjustments I made over three weeks.
Adapting Your Rork iOS App to iPhone Air and 17 Pro Series — Layout Patterns for 2026's New Resolutions
iPhone Air introduced a 420pt width that sits between the standard and Max models, quietly breaking layout conditionals in existing Rork apps. Based on updating four iOS apps at once, this covers device constant management, Safe Area handling, and full-screen image display fixes.
Images Vanishing After Play Store Release — Fixing drawable-nodpi in Rork Android Apps
After publishing a Rork-generated Android app to the Play Store, images disappeared on low-density devices. The culprit: Play Store's density APK splits and how they handle drawable-nodpi resources. A real-world fix from 12 years of app development.
Rork FlatList Crashes from Direct State Mutation – Defensive Copy Fix
FlatList crashes in Rork-generated code are often caused by direct array mutation. Learn the defensive copy pattern that eliminated 50+ crashes in 28 days from a 50M-download app's v2.1.0 update.
Is Rork's Generated Code Production-Ready? 3 Pitfalls I Found After 50M Downloads
After 50M cumulative app downloads, I tested Rork's generated code against real production scenarios and found 3 recurring crash patterns. Here's what to audit before shipping Rork-generated code, with concrete before/after examples.
Testing Rork Max SwiftUI Features on a Real Wallpaper App — What Worked, What Needed Fixes
I benchmarked Rork Max's SwiftUI generation against the production code of a wallpaper app I actually run. Here is what shipped as-is, what needed fixing, and what I ended up writing by hand — with working code and on-device measurements.
Why Nesting Your Android Ad Gate Logic Causes Hard-to-Debug Bugs — Fixing It with Parallel Structure
A nested ad gate bug in Beautiful HD Wallpapers v2.1.0 led me to rethink how ad-free logic should be structured in Android apps. The parallel structure pattern I use now also improves Rork-generated code.
Rork Max SwiftUI App Crash Logs Are Unreadable: The dSYM Upload Pitfall
Fix Unsymbolicated crash reports in Firebase Crashlytics for Rork Max SwiftUI apps. Learn the correct dSYM upload configuration with real examples from indie app development.
Fixing the White Screen on Theme Switch Without recreate() — When a Process Restart Is the Right Call
Fixing a white screen on Android theme switching by separating the cases AppCompatDelegate can handle from the ones that need an AppRestarter.safeRestart, plus the situations where killProcess should never be used.
Migrating Firebase CocoaPods to SPM in Rork Max Apps
Firebase stops publishing new Apple SDK versions to CocoaPods in October 2026 (Firebase 12 is the last major release). Here's a detailed migration log from moving 4 Rork Max iOS apps to Swift Package Manager — including dSYM failures, module errors, and the Dropbox conflict copy problem you'll definitely hit.