Learning Guides

Learn the basics of Rork Max, from your first app generation to core features

1. STEP 1◇Beginner
   01One of Your 12 Google Play Testers Dropped Out — Do the 14 Days Start Over?02The night the Play Console wouldn't let me submit — release notes cap at 500 characters per language03Should You Ship a Web Version While the Store Reviews Your App? Choosing a Release Order for a Rork App With Three Questions04Before You Promise "Release in a Week" — Break Down the Days You Will Spend Waiting
2. STEP 2◆Intermediate
   05A 40-Line Script to Check Whether Rork Wrote an API Key Into Your Code06My plugins Array Was Empty, and Info.plist Still Had Nine Permission Strings07Before Moving to Expo SDK 58, List What Disappears in Your Own CodePREMIUM08Can You Move an iOS App From an Individual Account to an Organization Later? Five Things to Clear Before App Transfer
3. STEP 3◈Advanced
   09React Native + Expo AI Agent-Driven Development Mastery: Implementation Patterns, Case Studies, and Production Deployment

Guide to Xcode integration, GitHub workflows, and CI/CD pipelines

1. STEP 1◇Beginner
   01Before asking Rork for Apple and Google sign-in, I went looking for steps that weren't mine to take02When EXPO_PUBLIC_ Values Read Fine in Dev but Come Back undefined in Production: Telling the Spellings Apart03Reading only what Rork changed: the diff routine I run after every re-export04When a link opens the browser instead of your app, look at the signing key before assetlinks.json
2. STEP 2◆Intermediate
   05Before You Ship: Go Looking for Your Own Keys Inside the Exported Expo Bundle06Japanese Headings Won't Turn Bold on Android: How to Trace and Fix a fontWeight That Does Nothing07Four Numbers to Record Before R8 Becomes the Default — Android Measurements While We Wait for Expo SDK 5808A build that stops with exit code 0 — the flag that silenced the log, and the check that let an empty file through
3. STEP 3◈Advanced
   09Why Redeploying Doesn't Fix the Application Error You See Right After a DeployPREMIUM10One Missing Tutorial Image Was Enough to Stop the Whole App from Launching. Moving Nice-to-Have Features Off the Required Startup PathPREMIUM11My App Open Ad Only Showed When the App Came Back From Background. The 'Returned to Foreground' Signal Fired Before the Ad Had LoadedPREMIUM12Your Widget Extension Can Submit a BGTaskScheduler Request. It Just Cannot Register the HandlerPREMIUM

AI integration with Claude, Gemini, and more, plus advanced prompting techniques

1. STEP 1◇Beginner
   01Before You Type "Connect Supabase": The Two Values to Copy, and the One You Must Not02Three checks to run before you ask the AI again about a black preview screen03Sonnet 5.5, GPT-6.1 Sol, or Opus 5.5? I Decide by the Kind of Fix Before I Pick the Model. A Week of Logging Where My Rork Credits Went04Keep Fixing in the Same Thread, or Restore and Rephrase? What I Learned Fixing One Rork Bug Both Ways
2. STEP 2◆Intermediate
   05Before You Ship an AI-Made App Icon or Image: A Ledger and Four Checks06Is That API Key Sitting Inside Your App? Rork Environment Variables vs. Supabase Edge Functions07Pushing Rork Max's AI Beyond Vibe Coding — Patterns That Actually Improve Implementation QualityPREMIUM08Building a Talking AI Companion App with Rork and ElevenLabs
3. STEP 3◈Advanced
   09Take the Prompt Out of the App: An Edge Function Gateway With the Guard on the Output SidePREMIUM10The recommended replacement was already gone — auditing all 74 rows of Gemini's deprecation tablePREMIUM11Where the AI decision lives once Rork splits your app into two native codebasesPREMIUM12Cutting MCP Tools Didn't Make Anything Lighter — 2,377 Bytes of Definitions vs 110,298 Bytes of ResponsePREMIUM

From App Store review guidelines to subscription design and monetization

1. STEP 1◇Beginner
   01Before You Add Payments to Your App: Deciding What to Publish for Japan's Commercial Transactions Disclosure02Can a Booking or Shop App Use Stripe? Apple Draws the Line at Where the Thing Gets Used03AdMob Balance Below the Payment Threshold for Months: Three Screens to Check Before You Worry04Before You Build a Client's App in Rork, Decide Who Owns the Store Account
2. STEP 2◆Intermediate
   05When Pasting the Submission Log Didn't Fix It, Read From the First Error, Not the Last Line06Your First Year With Rork: The Order Your Bills Actually Arrive In07Multiseat Purchases Are Already On: Decide Whether to Keep Them Before October 22PREMIUM08Two Balances, Not One: Reading Rork's Build Credits and Cloud Credits Apart
3. STEP 3◈Advanced
   09A successful payment never tells you what to unlock. Routing four products through one CheckoutPREMIUM10Your Blended eCPM Dropped and Revenue Went Up: Splitting the Change Into Country Mix and RatePREMIUM11After the Google Play deadline: which dormant Android apps to raise, and which to leave at 35PREMIUM12Putting AdMob Bidding into Production for a Rork App — Five Networks Bidding in Parallel, eCPM Trends, and Daily OperationsPREMIUM