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SDK58 — The Expo SDK 58 beta is open. It adopts the iOS 27 UIScene lifecycle, and R8 is now on by default for Android release buildsSWIFT — Rork no longer creates new Expo projects. New apps are Swift, Kotlin or React, and existing Expo projects keep building as before11/01 — Forty-two days remain for anyone who filed an extension on Google Play's target API level. Miss it and new users on newer devices stop seeing the appEXPOGO — Scanning the QR code in Expo Go stopped working for some people. Since September 3, iOS requires you to be signed in on both the terminal and the appNEW — What I changed when prebuild stopped and asked for the standard Swift AppDelegateXCODE27 — Xcode 27 is not required yet. The latest EAS Build image is still 26.6, and the 27 image is listed as coming soonSDK58 — The Expo SDK 58 beta is open. It adopts the iOS 27 UIScene lifecycle, and R8 is now on by default for Android release buildsSWIFT — Rork no longer creates new Expo projects. New apps are Swift, Kotlin or React, and existing Expo projects keep building as before11/01 — Forty-two days remain for anyone who filed an extension on Google Play's target API level. Miss it and new users on newer devices stop seeing the appEXPOGO — Scanning the QR code in Expo Go stopped working for some people. Since September 3, iOS requires you to be signed in on both the terminal and the appNEW — What I changed when prebuild stopped and asked for the standard Swift AppDelegateXCODE27 — Xcode 27 is not required yet. The latest EAS Build image is still 26.6, and the 27 image is listed as coming soon
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Business/2026-04-24Intermediate

Rork App Subscription Pricing Design: 5 Principles to Maximize LTV Without Losing Retention

Design subscription pricing for apps built with Rork on App Store and Google Play. Learn how to set price tiers while maintaining retention and LTV. Discover pricing psychology, trial period strategy, and platform guidelines.

Getting Started/2026-04-24Beginner

Rork vs Bubble — Which No-Code Tool Should You Pick for Your Next App?

Both Rork and Bubble promise 'build apps without code,' but pick the wrong one and you fight the tool for weeks. A working comparison of fit, strengths, pricing, and learning curve from a practitioner's view.

Business/2026-04-24Advanced

Rork Max × RevenueCat × AdMob: Complete Implementation Guide for Hybrid Monetization

Build hybrid monetization for Rork Max apps with AdMob and RevenueCat. Complete implementation code, App Store review checklist, real-world metrics from 100k+ download apps.

Dev Tools/2026-04-24Intermediate

Reanimated Worklet Errors in Rork Apps — Six Things to Check Before You Panic

React Native Reanimated throws a lot of worklet errors the moment you add it to a Rork project. This walkthrough covers the six most common causes, from a missing Babel plugin to closure capture bugs, in the order you should investigate them.

Dev Tools/2026-04-24Intermediate

Rork Max SwiftUI Output Won't Build in Xcode — A Symptom-Based Recovery Guide

When Rork Max's generated SwiftUI project fails to build in Xcode, the right fix depends on the exact error. This guide walks through the common failure modes — dependency resolution, Info.plist, entitlements, bundle ID conflicts — with targeted recovery steps for each.

Dev Tools/2026-04-24Advanced

Cut First-Day Drop-off by Half — A Data-Driven Onboarding Design Note for Rork Apps

How do you actually lower the 24-hour drop-off on a Rork-built app? This is a working solo developer's notes — measurement funnel, onboarding cuts I made, and the weekly cadence I use to iterate.

Dev Tools/2026-04-24Advanced

Pairing Rork with Convex for a Type-Safe Reactive Backend — From Subscriptions to File Handling

A complete, production-oriented guide to wiring Convex into a Rork-generated React Native app. Schema design, reactive subscriptions, file uploads, Clerk auth, cron jobs, and the pitfalls you only find after shipping.

Dev Tools/2026-04-24Intermediate

Adding Sign in with Apple to Your Rork App — What Review Actually Requires and Where People Get Stuck

A practical walkthrough for adding Sign in with Apple to an existing Rork app. Covers the exact Guideline 4.8 requirements that reject Google/Facebook-only apps, the non-obvious parts of expo-apple-authentication, backend token verification with identityToken, and the account deletion requirement most tutorials skip.

Dev Tools/2026-04-23Intermediate

Why Your Rork App Can't Save Images to the Camera Roll — A Complete Fix

Image and video saving often breaks the moment a Rork-generated app leaves the simulator. This guide walks through the permission model, expo-media-library quirks, and Android 13+ scoped storage changes that reliably trip people up.

AI Models/2026-04-23Advanced

Production AI Observability for Rork Apps with Langfuse: Tracing, Cost, and Quality Evals

A practical guide to instrumenting Rork-built AI apps with Langfuse — end-to-end tracing, per-user cost accounting, and automated quality evals you can run in production.

Dev Tools/2026-04-23Intermediate

State Updated in Rork But UI Won't Re-render? Five Patterns and Fixes

setState is firing in your Rork-generated code but the UI refuses to update. Five common root causes — mutation, stale closures, Zustand selectors, missed dependencies, unmounted updates — each with Before/After code.

AI Models/2026-04-23Advanced

Shipping Rork Max SwiftUI Native Apps All the Way to the App Store: A Production Playbook

Rork Max can produce a working SwiftUI native app in an afternoon. Shipping one to the App Store and maintaining it for months is a different game — scope drifts, a careless diff breaks the codebase, review rejections derail the release. This guide lays out the six phases of a solo-indie production workflow: spec-first design, staged generation, diff discipline, submission prep, rejection response, and post-launch maintenance.