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⬡ Rork Dev/2026-07-04Advanced

Start a Live Activity Without Launching Your Rork Max App — Designing Around a push-to-start Token That Never Arrives

In a native Swift app generated by Rork Max, you want to start a Live Activity from your server without the user ever opening the app. But the push-to-start token is never observed and it fails silently. Here's the cause and an observation layer that reliably captures the token.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-06-26Advanced

Show Your Rork App's Progress on the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island

Add Live Activities and ActivityKit to a Swift app generated by Rork Max so a meditation timer or delivery status appears on the lock screen and Dynamic Island, with working code and the submission gotchas to watch for.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-06-15Advanced

Showing Live Progress in the Dynamic Island from a Rork Max Swift App

How to add an ActivityKit Live Activity to a Swift app generated by Rork Max so progress shows in the Dynamic Island, plus the update-related pitfalls I hit in production.

⬡ 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.