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I Built a Wallpaper App with Rork — An Honest Review from a Developer with 50M App Downloads
After running wallpaper and healing apps with 50M+ downloads since 2014, I prototype-tested Rork on the same genre. Here's my honest take on where it shines, where it struggles, and what it means for solo developers.
Rork App Rejected for Incomplete Data Safety Section on Google Play: How to Fix It
Step-by-step guide to correctly filling out Google Play's Data Safety section for Rork apps. Covers AdMob, Firebase, RevenueCat, and common declaration mistakes that cause rejections.
Building a Shared UI Component Library with Swift Package Manager in Rork Max
A practical guide to building a shared SwiftUI component library with Swift Package Manager for indie developers running multiple apps — eliminate duplicate code across wallpaper, healing, and similar app families.
Slow Images in My Rork Wallpaper App: Switching to expo-image and What Actually Changed
A hands-on account of switching from React Native's default Image component to expo-image in a Rork-generated wallpaper app — with code examples, blur hash setup, and observable performance improvements.
That 'CORS Error' in Your Rork + Supabase Edge Function? It's Probably Something Else
Seeing CORS errors when calling Supabase Edge Functions from your Rork app? React Native apps don't enforce CORS — the real cause is usually something else entirely. Here's how to diagnose and fix it.
Rork vs Expo CLI: What the Build Experience Actually Feels Like — A 12-Year Indie Dev Perspective
A hands-on comparison of Rork and Expo CLI build workflows from a developer with 12 years of indie app experience and 50M+ cumulative downloads. Honest take on where Rork creates friction for CLI-savvy developers — and where it genuinely wins.
Building Fortune & Manifestation Apps with Rork — Daily Content Delivery and Retention Design from 50M+ Downloads
Fortune apps lose most users in three days. A Rork design for daily delivery, push timing, and widgets that turns the niche into a habit.
Stop Your Rork App's Search Field from Hammering the API: debounce + AbortController + Empty States
A keystroke-by-keystroke search field looks fine on a laptop and starts misbehaving the moment a real phone hits a slow network. Here is the three-piece kit I keep coming back to in Rork apps: debounced input, abortable requests, and a state machine the UI actually understands.
Adding Swift Charts to a Rork Max App: Setup, and Why It Stutters Past a Few Hundred Points
How to drop Swift Charts into the SwiftUI code Rork Max generates, where the framework starts choking once your dataset grows past a thousand points, and the downsampling and animation patterns that keep things at 60 fps on real devices.
When expo-image-picker won't launch in your Rork app — Info.plist and permission fixes that actually worked
Your Rork-generated app's pick image button works in the simulator but does nothing on TestFlight builds. Walk through the four real-world causes I keep hitting: missing Info.plist keys, wrong permission order, iOS 14 Limited Photo Access, and Android 13+ media permissions.
Why Your Rork iOS App's API Calls Fail Silently — Fixing App Transport Security the Right Way
When a Rork-built iOS app's API requests fail with no error and no log, App Transport Security (ATS) is almost always the culprit. Here is the minimum-privilege fix and an Info.plist that actually passes review.
I Asked Rork to Prototype an Art-Focused App: A Reality Check from a 17-Award Artist
From the perspective of a 17-time international art award winner who has shipped apps with over 50 million downloads since 2014, here is an honest review of asking Rork to prototype an art-focused app — what worked, what did not, and where human craft is still required.