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NATIVE — Rork Max reaches AR and LiDAR scanning, Metal-backed 3D, Dynamic Island, Siri Intents, HealthKit, NFC, App Clips, and on-device Core MLIOS27 — iOS 27 Developer Beta 4 extends Siri AI to iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max plus the 16 and 17 lines, with noticeably faster responses than the first betaDESIGN — Apple's own design kits for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 27 are now available for Figma and Sketch, ready for when you lay out UI for the new OSCANARY — Android 17, codenamed Cinnamon Bun, retires Developer Previews in favor of continuously updated Canary builds, which changes when you schedule testingSPARK — Gemini Spark in Android 17 drives apps directly to automate multi-step errands like booking a ride or placing an orderSCALE — Rork raised $2.8M from a16z and now draws roughly 743,000 visits a monthNATIVE — Rork Max reaches AR and LiDAR scanning, Metal-backed 3D, Dynamic Island, Siri Intents, HealthKit, NFC, App Clips, and on-device Core MLIOS27 — iOS 27 Developer Beta 4 extends Siri AI to iPhone 15 Pro and 15 Pro Max plus the 16 and 17 lines, with noticeably faster responses than the first betaDESIGN — Apple's own design kits for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS 27 are now available for Figma and Sketch, ready for when you lay out UI for the new OSCANARY — Android 17, codenamed Cinnamon Bun, retires Developer Previews in favor of continuously updated Canary builds, which changes when you schedule testingSPARK — Gemini Spark in Android 17 drives apps directly to automate multi-step errands like booking a ride or placing an orderSCALE — Rork raised $2.8M from a16z and now draws roughly 743,000 visits a month
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Dev Tools/2026-07-11Advanced

Verifying StoreKit 2 Signed Transactions in a Cloudflare Worker

If you trust whatever the device says about its purchase state, a tampered entitlement walks right through. This walks through verifying StoreKit 2 signed transactions (JWS) in a Cloudflare Worker so you grant entitlements without trusting the client, with working code.

Dev Tools/2026-07-10Advanced

Adding React Compiler to Expo Let Me Delete 41 Hand-Written memo Calls

I enabled React Compiler on Rork-generated React Native screens and measured the rerender counts with Profiler. Here is how I decided which memo and useCallback calls were safe to delete, how to find the components the compiler bailed out on, and how to catch regressions in CI.

Dev Tools/2026-07-10Advanced

The Termination That Never Shows Up as a Crash — Reading JetsamEvent in Rork Apps

Crashlytics is silent, yet reviewers write that the app closes by itself. Most of the time the OS killed it for exceeding its memory limit. Here is how to read JetsamEvent reports and design an image-heavy app's memory budget from measured values.

Dev Tools/2026-07-10Advanced

Every Key You Ship Is Public: Secret Boundaries and Rotation for Rork-Generated Apps

Unzip your own .ipa, run strings, and your environment variables are right there in plain text. Here is how I sort keys into three tiers, move the dangerous ones behind an edge proxy, and keep a rotation runbook that assumes leakage.

Dev Tools/2026-07-09Advanced

Getting Rork Max's Swift Through Swift 6's Strict Concurrency Checking

A field record of taking a Rork Max-generated SwiftUI app through Swift 6 complete concurrency checking: 217 warnings cleared target by target, where @MainActor actually belongs, and measured before/after numbers.

Getting Started/2026-07-09Beginner

An Honest Review of the Rork AI App Builder After Three Months — Strengths, Weaknesses, and Who It's For (Revisited July 2026)

A no-spin review of the Rork AI app builder from a solo developer who shipped to the App Store with it and kept using it for three months. What was fast, what surprised me, how to judge the pricing, and who it actually fits.

Getting Started/2026-07-09Beginner

How to Test Your Rork App on a Real iPhone Using the Companion App

A step-by-step guide to using the Rork Companion app for real device testing on iPhone and iPad. Covers local simulator vs. the cloud-Mac live simulator vs. real device, setup steps, and what to check on device.

Getting Started/2026-07-09Intermediate

Rork vs Replit — Which AI Tool Is Best for Mobile App Development in 2026?

A comprehensive comparison of Rork and Replit for mobile app development. Compare features, pricing, App Store publishing, and native capabilities in 2026.

Dev Tools/2026-07-09Advanced

Holding Layer Boundaries in a Rork-Generated Expo App with ESLint and dependency-cruiser

Long-lived Rork-generated Expo apps quietly accumulate screens that import the API client directly. Here is how I froze 214 existing violations as a baseline, eliminated 17 circular dependencies, and made CI reject anything new for 38 extra seconds.

Dev Tools/2026-07-09Advanced

When Amplitude's Funnel Improved Overnight — Field Notes on Catching Event Schema Drift With a Self-Audit

In a Rork-built app, the Amplitude funnel showed signup-to-purchase conversion jumping from 8% to 19% overnight, yet revenue stayed flat. The cause was a property-name drift that inflated the count. Field notes on measuring the drift with an event contract and a runtime validator, then tightening it in stages.

App Dev/2026-07-09Advanced

You Only Need to Capture the 6.9-inch iPhone for App Store Screenshots

App Store Connect only requires two screenshot sizes: the 6.9-inch iPhone and the 13-inch iPad. Building on Apple auto-downscaling for smaller devices, here is how I use fastlane snapshot and frameit to cut the screenshot count for a multi-language app.

Dev Tools/2026-07-08Intermediate

Your SVG Icon Shows in Expo Go but Vanishes in a Build — Making SVGs Render Reliably in Rork Apps

When a .svg import renders nothing, throws a resolve error, or ignores your theme colors in Rork and Expo apps, here is how to fix it with metro.config.js, react-native-svg-transformer, and currentColor — with working code.