Rork Max × WidgetKit & Live Activities in Practice — From Home Screen to Dynamic Island
A complete guide to implementing iOS Widgets, Lock Screen widgets, and Dynamic Island Live Activities with Rork Max. Covers WidgetKit fundamentals, Timeline update strategies, App Intents integration, and monetization.
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.
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.
When Widgets and Live Activities Enter the Picture: Deciding on Rork Max by Operating Cost
When home screen widgets or Live Activities become a requirement, do you stay on the React Native build of Rork or move to Rork Max? Here is how to decide by years of operating cost rather than feature appeal, from the perspective of an indie developer maintaining apps long term.
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.
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.