Auditing Privacy Manifests for Rork-Generated Expo Apps — A One-Day Pre-Submission Workflow for Indie Developers
A pre-submission workflow for indie developers shipping Rork-generated Expo apps: enumerate every dependency, tell ITMS-91053 apart from ITMS-91061, and catch the Pods that npm names never show you — hermes included.
Rork iOS App Rejected with ITMS-90683 on TestFlight — How to Fix Missing Purpose Strings via app.json
If your Rork-built iOS app passes upload but gets an email titled ITMS-90683: Missing Purpose String in Info.plist, this guide walks through the real cause and the permanent fix via app.json, based on 12 years of shipping personal iOS apps with the same problem appearing across new SDK updates.
Fixing 0x8badf00d Watchdog Kills That Wipe Out Rork Apps at Launch
Your Rork iOS app dies right after launch on real devices, but never on your bench. Crashlytics shows exception code 0x8badf00d. Here is how to read the exact watchdog budget out of the crash log and rearrange your launch path so it stops.
Rork × Firebase Remote Config: Tuning AdMob Safely in Production — Run App Open Frequency Caps Without a Release
From the experience of pushing wallpaper-app App Open ads too hard and watching DAU drop, here is a design for treating AdMob format mix, frequency caps, and exclusions as a Firebase Remote Config contract. Expo/Rork wiring, fail-safe defaults, A/B testing, and metric joins included.
Premium-Only App Icons in Rork: Implementing Alternate App Icons Without Stumbling on Expo's Quirks
Wanted to swap your app's icon when a user upgrades to premium? Expo's standard SDK won't get you there. Here is how I wired up Alternate App Icons in a Rork-built app, including the Info.plist tweaks, asset placement, and the iOS 18 caching gotcha that wasted an afternoon.
How I Stop Rork's AI From Generating Outdated Library Code — My Version-Pinned Prompt Template
A practical look at why Rork Max sometimes generates outdated API code, the version-pinned prompt template I rely on every day, and the device-level checks I use to catch the cases where mismatches still slip through.
Killing the Silent Crash in Rork-Generated Apps — A Practical Error Boundary and Unhandled Promise Setup
Rork-generated code tends to swallow errors with optional chaining and leave promise rejections uncaught. Here is the minimum production-grade setup to surface those crashes instead of letting users churn in silence.
Keeping Rork Apps Fresh While Closed — iOS BGTaskScheduler, Silent Push, and Android WorkManager
Silent Pushes that never arrive. A BGTaskScheduler that stays quiet. This is how I pushed background refresh in a Rork-built app up to production quality on both iOS and Android — and what the success-rate numbers told me to fix first.
Adding Expo Dev Client to Your Rork App
The moment you add react-native-mmkv or RevenueCat to a Rork app, Expo Go stops launching it. Here's how to set up Expo Dev Client (a custom development build) and the three pitfalls I've actually walked into.
Native App or PWA? Three Questions to Answer Before Building with Rork
Should you build a native app with Rork or go with a PWA? This guide breaks down the real functional differences — push notifications, camera, App Store distribution — and gives you a clear decision framework.
Telling Rork to Make It Feel Like a Quiet Museum — Translating a Creator's Vocabulary Into Implementation
What happens when you hand Rork the mood of your work instead of a spec? A record of prompting from emotion, pinning the returned spacing and timing into design tokens, and the places where fonts and regeneration stopped me.
5 Things to Check First When Rork Shows 'Unable to Resolve Module'
Walk through the five most common causes of the 'Unable to resolve module' error in Rork, React Native, and Expo projects, with the exact commands and the order in which to check them.