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Why Your Rork iOS Widget Keeps Showing Stale Data — Rebuilding the App Group + WidgetKit Pipeline That Actually Refreshes
Your Rork-built iOS widget shows yesterday's data. Rebuild the App Group, shared UserDefaults, and timeline reload pipeline so parent and widget share state.
Premium-Only App Icons in Rork: Implementing Alternate App Icons Without Stumbling on Expo's Quirks
Wanted to swap your app's icon when a user upgrades to premium? Expo's standard SDK won't get you there. Here is how I wired up Alternate App Icons in a Rork-built app, including the Info.plist tweaks, asset placement, and the iOS 18 caching gotcha that wasted an afternoon.
Building a Rork A/B Testing Platform with GrowthBook and PostHog from Scratch
Drop Firebase and pair GrowthBook with PostHog to ship a production-grade A/B testing stack for your Rork apps. SDK wiring, edge evaluation on Cloudflare Workers, Bayesian statistics interpretation, and the operational pitfalls I learned the hard way.
5 Things to Check When Google Sign-In Throws redirect_uri_mismatch in Your Rork App
When your Rork app keeps throwing redirect_uri_mismatch on Google Sign-In, the gap is almost always between Google Cloud Console and your Expo config. Here are 5 checks that resolve it for good.
A Phased Release Strategy for Rork Apps — How I Combine iOS Phased Release, Android Staged Rollout, and OTA Hotfixes for a Production That Doesn't Break
How to protect a Rork app's production with three layers of safety: iOS Phased Release, Android Staged Rollout, and EAS Update OTA hotfixes — with concrete decision thresholds and monitoring code you can copy today.
How I Stop Rork's AI From Generating Outdated Library Code — My Version-Pinned Prompt Template
A practical look at why Rork Max sometimes generates outdated API code, the version-pinned prompt template I rely on every day, and the device-level checks I use to catch the cases where mismatches still slip through.
Why Rork Max Cloud Compile Fails — and How to Fix It
A symptom-based guide to fixing Rork Max Cloud Compile failures. Covers code signing errors, Swift version mismatches, dependency resolution failures, and build timeouts with practical solutions.
Killing the Silent Crash in Rork-Generated Apps — A Practical Error Boundary and Unhandled Promise Setup
Rork-generated code tends to swallow errors with optional chaining and leave promise rejections uncaught. Here is the minimum production-grade setup to surface those crashes instead of letting users churn in silence.
Keeping Rork Apps Fresh While Closed — iOS BGTaskScheduler, Silent Push, and Android WorkManager
A production-quality implementation guide for background refresh in Rork-built apps, covering iOS BGTaskScheduler, APNS Silent Push throttling, Android WorkManager, and the user-recovery funnel that ties it all together.
Rork iOS App: Why Your App Tracking Transparency Prompt Never Shows Up — and How to Fix It
Three real causes the ATT (App Tracking Transparency) dialog never appears in Rork-generated iOS apps — Info.plist, call timing, and AdMob init order — with working code and on-device verification steps.
A Complete Guide to Refactoring Rork-Generated React Native Code for Production
Learn how to identify the six most common technical debt patterns in Rork-generated React Native code and transform them into production-ready quality through TypeScript safety, component splitting, state management, async patterns, performance tuning, and testability — all with real Before/After examples.
Animation Jank in Rork Apps — How I Diagnosed Frame Drops and Fixed Them
Animations in your Rork app running smoothly in the preview but stuttering on a real device? This guide explains how to diagnose frame drops, why they happen, and how one line of code often fixes the problem completely.