Bugs Rork Can Fix vs. Bugs You Should Fix Yourself: A Triage Workflow for Exported Code
A practical triage workflow for telling apart the bugs Rork resolves on its own from the ones you should hand-fix in exported React Native/Expo code, with working examples.
What Did Rork Actually Change as an AI Mobile App Builder? A Six-Month Field Review
An honest, indie-developer review of Rork as an AI mobile app builder after six months of real-world use. What changed, where it shines, where it gets stuck, and how to decide whether to start with it.
How I Localized My Play Store Screenshots into 16 Languages — Swapping PSD Text with Python and Standardizing on Noto Fonts
An implementation log of localizing an Android wallpaper app's store screenshots into 16 languages: swapping PSD text layers per language with Python, auto-shrinking overflow, and assigning the right font per script — with the actual code and a font cheat sheet.
What Localizing My Wallpaper Apps' App Store Listings Taught Me — Translation Isn't the Hard Part, Being Read Locally Is
Field notes from localizing my wallpaper apps' App Store listings across many locales: where literal translation fell short, where the keyword field and screenshot copy actually moved the needle, and how I now prioritize localization as a solo developer.
Two Weeks After Adding Pangle and Mintegral to My AdMob Waterfall — Notes on eCPM and Fill Rate
A record from a wallpaper app with over 50 million downloads: I added Pangle and Mintegral to my AdMob mediation, then compared two weeks of eCPM and fill-rate data. Bidding-and-waterfall coexistence, the effective-revenue breakdown, region-based groups, and a daily monitoring script — kept in a form you can actually operate.
Rolling Out Privacy Manifest to Six Wallpaper Apps in Parallel — Translating One Rejection into Five Clean Submissions
Operational notes from rolling out Privacy Manifest to six iOS wallpaper apps in parallel. How a single rejection on the first submission shaped the remaining five, and how phased release rings were designed for a UI-less update.
Enforcing AI Cost Ceilings at Runtime — A Budget-Guard Architecture for Rork Apps
How to stop runaway AI bills not by optimizing, but by physically enforcing budget at runtime. An indie developer's three-layer architecture using Cloudflare Durable Objects, with hard-won lessons from running 50M-download apps.
The First 72 Hours After Shipping a Rork App — Crashes, Reviews, and Ad Priorities
The 72 hours right after you ship a Rork-generated app to the App Store or Google Play quietly decide most of the next six months of ratings and ranking. Here is the order I watch things in, after many years of solo iOS and Android releases.
Adapting Your Rork iOS App to iPhone Air and 17 Pro Series — Layout Patterns for 2026's New Resolutions
iPhone Air introduced a 420pt width that sits between the standard and Max models, quietly breaking layout conditionals in existing Rork apps. Based on updating four iOS apps at once, this covers device constant management, Safe Area handling, and full-screen image display fixes.
Fixing the White Screen on Theme Switch Without recreate() — When a Process Restart Is the Right Call
Fixing a white screen on Android theme switching by separating the cases AppCompatDelegate can handle from the ones that need an AppRestarter.safeRestart, plus the situations where killProcess should never be used.
Building a Short Video Feed with Rork Max — Camera Recording, Supabase Upload & Vertical Scroll Patterns
A hands-on guide to implementing a TikTok/Reels-style vertical video feed with Rork Max. Covers camera recording, background upload to Supabase Storage, and infinite scroll with active-video detection.
Switching from Context API to Zustand v5 in Rork Apps: What Changed and Why It Worked
Context API caused cascading re-renders in a growing Rork app. Here's how migrating to Zustand v5 solved it — with practical patterns for auth state and async logic in React Native.