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●PLAY — Google Play's target API level 36 requirement took effect yesterday, August 31. From today, new apps and updates must target Android 16●VISIBILITY — Apps still on API 35 stay listed but disappear for users on newer Android versions. No error is raised; new installs simply fade, which makes the change easy to miss●EXTENSION — If you missed the deadline, an extension through November 1, 2026 can be requested in Play Console — best filed alongside a concrete migration plan●APPLE — On the Apple side, the event lands September 9 and iOS 27 is reported to ship September 14. Testing generated apps on iOS 27 hardware before release week is time well spent●EXPO — Expo released expo-paste-input on August 28, a native module that brings image, GIF, and sticker paste to React Native TextInput●EAS — EAS Observe reached general availability on August 20, putting crash and performance monitoring on the same EAS platform as builds and updates●PLAY — Google Play's target API level 36 requirement took effect yesterday, August 31. From today, new apps and updates must target Android 16●VISIBILITY — Apps still on API 35 stay listed but disappear for users on newer Android versions. No error is raised; new installs simply fade, which makes the change easy to miss●EXTENSION — If you missed the deadline, an extension through November 1, 2026 can be requested in Play Console — best filed alongside a concrete migration plan●APPLE — On the Apple side, the event lands September 9 and iOS 27 is reported to ship September 14. Testing generated apps on iOS 27 hardware before release week is time well spent●EXPO — Expo released expo-paste-input on August 28, a native module that brings image, GIF, and sticker paste to React Native TextInput●EAS — EAS Observe reached general availability on August 20, putting crash and performance monitoring on the same EAS platform as builds and updates
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⬡ Rork Dev/2026-06-25Advanced

When Push Notifications Reach Only Some Users — A Delivery-Reliability and Diagnosis Design for Rork (Expo) Apps

A design for diagnosing why push notifications reach only some users in a Rork-generated Expo app, by splitting send-to-display into stages and measuring delivery to close the gap. Covers stale-token cleanup, recording APNs/FCM failure codes, priority and message type, and a per-user triage procedure, with implementation.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-06-14Advanced

Updating Live Activities Remotely: Putting Live Lock Screen Info on a Rork App

A practical design for updating Live Activities remotely through APNs so the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island stay current even when your app is closed. Covers push-to-start vs update tokens, the content-state payload, stale-date and the update budget, and bridging from Expo, with working code and the issues I hit in production.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-05-01Advanced

Adding a Notification Service Extension to a Rork App — Rich Push, Encrypted Payloads, and Dynamic Rewriting

Wiring a Notification Service Extension into a Rork-built iOS app — image attachments, end-to-end encrypted payloads, and dynamic APNs payload rewriting — with working Swift code and the production pitfalls that bit me along the way.