My App Open Ad Only Showed When the App Came Back From Background. The 'Returned to Foreground' Signal Fired Before the Ad Had Loaded
On a cold start, the app open ad in my Android app never showed. The foreground signal came before the load began. Here is how I split the signal from the load and rebuilt it as logic you can test ordering by ordering.
How to Get Your Rork App Featured on the App Store — 7 Design Strategies That Impress Apple's Editorial Team
How to design, build, and nominate your Rork app for App Store featuring — Apple HIG compliance, accessibility, performance, and a field-by-field walkthrough of Featuring Nominations in App Store Connect.
Designing Seams That Survive AI Regeneration in Rork
Every follow-up prompt to Rork can quietly wipe out logic you wrote by hand. Protecting it with prompts is a patch, not a fix. Here is how to separate generated code from code you own, and draw a boundary that regeneration cannot reach, with working Zustand and service-layer examples.
Which Generation Introduced This Bug? Building Provenance Into Rork Apps
When you regenerate the same screen again and again with an AI builder, a bug that shows up one day becomes impossible to trace to a specific generation. This is a design for keeping generation provenance across three layers—build stamp, ledger, and telemetry—so you can narrow a regression down to a single generation in minutes.
Why Your Rork App Looks 'Cheap' — And How One Prompt Change Fixed It
If your Rork app looks generic or amateurish, the problem isn't the tool — it's the prompt. Here's how separating design instructions from feature instructions transforms your UI quality.
When Your Figma Comp and Your Rork Screen Don't Match — It's Almost Always These Five Properties
You hand Figma to Rork, the generated screen has every element in place, and it still looks wrong. Comparing the numbers instead of the pixels shows the gap collapses into five properties. Includes an Auto Layout translation table and a token file to ship with your prompt.
Google Stitch × Rork — Design App UI with Vibe Design and Implement Instantly
Design your app UI with Vibe Design in the free Google Stitch tool, then turn it into a native mobile app with Rork or Rork Max — no design background needed.