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Making Silent Failures Visible Across 6 Rork Apps: An Early-Warning Design Note for Non-Crash Degradation
Notes from running 6 wallpaper apps in parallel and the layer I built in 3 weeks to make Crashlytics-invisible failures observable. Beacons, timeouts, and a small Cloudflare Worker for cross-app aggregation.
Bolting WidgetKit onto a Rork iOS App: Implementation Notes from Rolling It Out to Six Wallpaper Apps Simultaneously
A hands-on note on adding a WidgetKit Extension to a Rork-generated iOS app, with operational lessons from rolling out widgets to six wallpaper apps at once — App Group plumbing, Timeline Provider choices, memory ceilings, and ASO side effects.
iOS Foreground Notifications Disappear in Expo — A Practical Fix Guide
A focused walkthrough of why iOS silently drops push notifications when the app is in the foreground, and how to wire setNotificationHandler correctly for iOS 14+ with expo-notifications.
Two Weeks Tightening Up iPad Support for a Rork-Generated Wallpaper App
Notes from spending two weeks tightening up iPad support for a wallpaper app I scaffolded with Rork. Coming from an iPhone-centric indie practice since 2014, I cover where Rork's defaults stopped, how the AdMob adaptive banner misbehaved on iPad, and what changed in retention afterwards.
Aggregating App Store Connect, RevenueCat, and AdMob into One Morning Digest with Cloudflare Workers — A Six-App Indie Architecture
A practical architecture for indie developers running multiple Rork apps: aggregate App Store Connect API, RevenueCat REST, and AdMob Reporting API in a Cloudflare Workers Cron job and ship a single daily Slack digest each morning.
How I Layered Rewarded, Interstitial, and App Open Ads to Lift ARPDAU 1.4× on My Wallpaper App
Optimizing AdMob's three formats individually hit a ceiling — they were eating each other's impressions. After redesigning Rewarded, Interstitial, and App Open as a coordinated 3-layer system with strict role separation and an exclusion gate, ARPDAU climbed 1.4× over nine weeks. The full playbook, code, and weekly numbers.
Fixing Layout Bleed on Android 15 (API 35) in Rork Apps
Once you bump targetSdkVersion to 35, Android 15 enforces edge-to-edge display, and Rork-generated tab bars and headers start sliding under the system bars. Here are the patterns I use with react-native-edge-to-edge and useSafeAreaInsets to fix it properly.
One Month of Reading Xcode Organizer Hang Reports Only on Friday Afternoons
I switched to reading Xcode Organizer Hang Reports for only thirty minutes every Friday for a month. Here is how it compared with Crashlytics and what actually improved across my wallpaper apps.
Implementation Notes: Adding StoreKit 2 In-App Purchases to a Rork iOS App
Notes from grafting StoreKit 2 in-app purchases onto Swift/SwiftUI code generated by Rork, drawing on the StoreKit 1-to-2 migration done across a 50M-cumulative-download wallpaper-app portfolio. Covers ProductID design, transaction verification, paywall UI, and production gotchas.
iOS Memory Pressure on Rork Apps — A 5-Tier Release Architecture from 12 Years of Wallpaper Apps
A 5-tier memory release architecture for Rork-built iOS apps, refined while running wallpaper apps to a cumulative 50 million downloads. Includes the Instruments + MetricKit measurement flow that brought OOM rate from 4.3% to 0.36%.
Adding AppLovin MAX to a Rork-Generated iOS Project — A Field Note on Init Order, ATT Consent, and eCPM A/B Testing
A field note from an indie developer on layering AppLovin MAX on top of a Rork-generated iOS app: SDK initialization order, ATT and MAX consent flag sync, and a minimal A/B setup to compare eCPM against AdMob-only.
Why your Rork app shows a blank screen or loses state after returning from background
Your Rork app sits in the background overnight, you tap the icon the next morning, and the screen is blank — or your drafts have disappeared, or you have been silently logged out. iOS process reclamation, AsyncStorage rehydration timing, and Navigation state restoration each cause a different version of this bug. Notes from running wallpaper and wellness apps with 50M downloads as an indie developer.