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DEADLINE — Four days remain until Google Play requires Android 16 (API level 36). From August 31 it applies to new apps and to updates of existing ones alikeRULES — The submission rule and the visibility rule are separate. An app you have stopped updating still disappears for new users on newer devices if it targets below API 35EXTENSION — An extension keeps you shipping to all users until November 1, but the form lives in Play Console and has to be filed before the deadline passesEXPO — Expo SDK 57 moves React Native from 0.85 to 0.86 while React stays at 19.2, and 0.86 is intended to land without breaking changesHERMES — 57.0.9 updates React Native to 0.86.2 and clears the Hermes V1 memory regression from SDK 56, which shows up in apps importing reanimated or workletsPREBUILD — expo prebuild now clears and regenerates the native android and ios directories by default, so hand-edited native changes vanish unless you audit for them firstDEADLINE — Four days remain until Google Play requires Android 16 (API level 36). From August 31 it applies to new apps and to updates of existing ones alikeRULES — The submission rule and the visibility rule are separate. An app you have stopped updating still disappears for new users on newer devices if it targets below API 35EXTENSION — An extension keeps you shipping to all users until November 1, but the form lives in Play Console and has to be filed before the deadline passesEXPO — Expo SDK 57 moves React Native from 0.85 to 0.86 while React stays at 19.2, and 0.86 is intended to land without breaking changesHERMES — 57.0.9 updates React Native to 0.86.2 and clears the Hermes V1 memory regression from SDK 56, which shows up in apps importing reanimated or workletsPREBUILD — expo prebuild now clears and regenerates the native android and ios directories by default, so hand-edited native changes vanish unless you audit for them first
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Rork Dev/2026-06-14Advanced

Building Rork Subscriptions Around RevenueCat Entitlements — Access Checks, Offering-Driven Paywalls, and Restore

Implementation notes for adding subscriptions to a Rork (Expo) app with RevenueCat. Make Entitlements the single source of truth for access, drive the paywall from Offerings so you can change prices remotely, wire up restore and the customer-info listener, and avoid the sandbox traps — all with working code.

Business/2026-06-13Advanced

Raising Your Subscription Price: How to Handle Existing Subscribers on the App Store and Google Play

Raise your subscription price without losing existing subscribers: break-even churn math, store consent flows, PRICE_INCREASE and EXPIRED handling, and cohort tracking.

Business/2026-05-30Intermediate

Taking Inventory of Your AdMob Ad Units — All the Way to App Open Cooldown Design

When rewarded and interstitial units pile up and you can no longer tell which one fires on which screen, here is the inventory process I use, plus the design for adding a cooldown to an App Open ad that otherwise shows on every launch.

Business/2026-05-27Advanced

The Day I Walked Away From $730/Month — Pulling AppLovin From 5 Apps After 11 Years of Crash Data

On 2026-05-26 I paused AppLovin and AppLovinMax Bidding + Waterfall across my entire iOS/Android catalogue (50M+ cumulative downloads) for INT, RWD, and RWI. This is the full record of the three lines of evidence I used to justify walking away from $730/month and the four-week evaluation framework I set up afterwards.

Business/2026-05-23Intermediate

From a Rork-Built App to Monthly Break-Even at 100 Yen Subscription: Indie Numbers from May 2026

A small Rork-built utility app reached month-over-month break-even on a 100 yen subscription combined with AdMob. May 2026 numbers, decisions, and what I deliberately left out.

Rork Dev/2026-05-18Advanced

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.

Business/2026-05-15Advanced

Rebuilding a Live Wallpaper App with Rork Max: Measured Hours and Post-Relaunch Metrics

I rebuilt a wallpaper app that was already live using Rork Max, timing every stage. Measured hours per phase, the spec details the generated code got wrong, how existing subscribers were migrated safely, and 30-day post-relaunch metrics.

Business/2026-05-14Intermediate

AdMob Mediation Dropped My eCPM by 30% After I Set It Up — What Went Wrong and How I Fixed It

My eCPM dropped 30% the morning after enabling AdMob mediation. Drawing on years of indie monetization work, here are the pitfalls I found in Rork apps, how to verify adapters are actually alive, how to derive floors from real data, and how to decide whether mediation is worth it at all.

Business/2026-05-14Intermediate

Testing AdMob in Rork After 12 Years of Ad Revenue Experience — 3 Concerns and 1 Real Win

An indie developer with 12+ years of AdMob experience and 50M+ cumulative app downloads shares an honest review of integrating AdMob in a Rork-generated app — what felt off, what surprised me, and who this actually works for.

Business/2026-05-13Advanced

I Let AI Read My Rork App Reviews — It Found My Next Feature in 3 Minutes

Build an automated user review analysis system using Claude API and App Store Connect API for your Rork app. Working code for sentiment analysis, theme clustering, priority scoring, and the reconciliation step that keeps batches from silently dropping reviews.

Business/2026-05-12Intermediate

I Built a Wallpaper App with Rork — An Honest Review from a Developer with 50M App Downloads

After running wallpaper and healing apps with 50M+ downloads since 2014, I prototype-tested Rork on the same genre. Here's my honest take on where it shines, where it struggles, and what it means for solo developers.

Business/2026-05-06Advanced

Building a Complete Stripe SaaS Payment System with Rork: Next.js × Cloudflare Workers × Supabase

A complete guide to implementing Stripe subscriptions, one-time purchases, and webhooks in a Rork-generated Next.js app. Build a production-grade SaaS billing stack with Cloudflare Workers and Supabase from scratch.