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◉ Rork AI/2026-09-17Advanced

The recommended replacement was already gone — auditing all 74 rows of Gemini's deprecation table

Cross-checking Gemini's deprecation table turned up five rows where the recommended replacement had itself already shut down, including gemini-2.5-flash-image, which goes away on October 2. Here is how to verify a migration target, and how to catch the 404 before your users do.

◈ Rork Basics/2026-09-14Intermediate

Rork No Longer Creates New Expo Projects: Keep Yours, or Rebuild It in SwiftUI?

You can no longer start an Expo project in Rork, but existing ones keep building and shipping. Here is how to decide whether to stay on Expo or rebuild in SwiftUI, and what quietly goes missing when you rebuild.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-06-16Advanced

Adding SwiftData to a SwiftUI App Generated by Rork Max

Rork Max can produce polished SwiftUI screens, but persistence often stops at @State. Here is how I layer SwiftData onto generated code: model design, wiring the container to views, and a schema migration pattern that survives shipping.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-05-16Advanced

Migrating Firebase CocoaPods to SPM in Rork Max Apps

Firebase Apple SDK's CocoaPods distribution ends in October 2026. Here's a detailed migration log from moving 4 Rork Max iOS apps to Swift Package Manager — including dSYM failures, module errors, and the Dropbox conflict copy problem you'll definitely hit.