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Implementing App Tracking Transparency in Rork: How to Pass App Store Review
How to implement App Tracking Transparency (ATT) in Rork-built iOS apps so they pass App Store review on the first try, with the right Info.plist copy, prompt timing, and graceful fallback when users deny tracking.
Designing a Subscription Entitlement State Machine in Rork — Never Misidentify Who Has Access Right Now
Design a subscription entitlement state machine in Rork that never confuses refunds, family sharing, cancel, resubscribe, or grace periods. Production-ready code and pitfalls included.
Rork × MetricKit: A Complete Guide to Measuring Production Quality of Your App — Building a Diagnostics Pipeline for Crashes, Hangs, and Battery Drain on Your Own
A practical guide to building a continuous production-quality observability pipeline for Rork-built apps using only Apple's first-party MetricKit framework — no third-party SDKs needed.
Why Your Rork Android App Shows a White Square Notification Icon (and How to Fix It)
Your Rork or Expo app's notification icon shows up as a white square or blob on Android. Here's the underlying Android spec, the correct transparent icon recipe, the right app.json fields, and the cache traps that make fixes appear to do nothing.
Designing a Rork App That Doesn't Get Deleted — A Solo Developer's Playbook for the First Week
Most Rork apps die in the first three days. Drawing on a decade of solo app development, here is a practical first-week design that targets the moment users actually swipe to delete.
Building a Talking AI Companion App with Rork and ElevenLabs
Text-only companion apps tend to lose half their users within the first three days. Adding a real voice through ElevenLabs changes the experience entirely. Here's a hands-on guide to wiring it up in a Rork app, with caching tactics and paywall design that actually work.
Building a Real-Time Collaborative App Backend with Rork and Cloudflare Durable Objects — Full Implementation Guide
A production-grade walkthrough for adding a self-hosted real-time collaboration backend to your Rork app using Cloudflare Durable Objects. Covers WebSocket lifecycle, hibernation-aware sessions, optimistic updates from React Native, and cost-aware design patterns — without depending on Liveblocks or Yjs hosting.
Fixing Date/Timezone Bugs in Rork Apps: When Times Are 9 Hours Off
When dates appear shifted by 9 hours, when an entry made at 11pm shows up on the wrong day, or when production data drifts—here are the patterns that catch Rork developers and how to fix them safely.
Adding Bottom Sheets to a Rork App — A Practical Guide to @gorhom/bottom-sheet on iOS and Android
Rork's default Modal works for confirmations, but the moment you need multiple snap points or inertial scroll inside the sheet it falls short. This guide walks through dropping @gorhom/bottom-sheet into a Rork project, handling the keyboard, and smoothing out iOS/Android differences.
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/barcode scanning, and the photo/video settings that survive App Store review.
Shipping Android Apps with Rork Max: A Cross-Platform Reality Check
Rork Max generates SwiftUI, which means it ships iOS only. If you want Android coverage too, here is how I have been combining Rork (vanilla) and Rork Max in real indie projects, plus the trade-offs nobody warns you about.
Implementing Screen Time Control Apps with Rork Max — Family Controls / DeviceActivity / ManagedSettings
A complete walkthrough for shipping a Screen Time-style app with Rork Max — covering Family Controls authorization, DeviceActivity scheduling, and ManagedSettings shielding via custom native modules and a DeviceActivityMonitor extension.