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DEADLINE — From August 31, 2026, Google Play requires target API level 36 (Android 16) or higher for both new apps and updates to existing ones. Twelve days leftEXTENSION — If you cannot make the date, the deadline extension form in Play Console buys you until November 1. The extension is not automatic, so the request itself has to land before August 31TARGET SDK — Even for the Expo and React Native apps Rork produces, the targetSdkVersion is yours to verify. A template pinned to an older SDK will not meet the requirement on its ownRORK MAX — Where the original Rork emits React Native and Expo, Rork Max generates native Swift, covering iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Vision Pro, and iMessageFUNDING — A $15M seed round led by Left Lane Capital was announced on April 9, alongside the acquisition of app builder Paperline to bring in engineering talentiOS — Developer beta 6 of iOS 27 arrived on August 17 with the autumn release drawing closer. If you ship native Swift output, the new OS timeline feeds straight into your release planDEADLINE — From August 31, 2026, Google Play requires target API level 36 (Android 16) or higher for both new apps and updates to existing ones. Twelve days leftEXTENSION — If you cannot make the date, the deadline extension form in Play Console buys you until November 1. The extension is not automatic, so the request itself has to land before August 31TARGET SDK — Even for the Expo and React Native apps Rork produces, the targetSdkVersion is yours to verify. A template pinned to an older SDK will not meet the requirement on its ownRORK MAX — Where the original Rork emits React Native and Expo, Rork Max generates native Swift, covering iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Vision Pro, and iMessageFUNDING — A $15M seed round led by Left Lane Capital was announced on April 9, alongside the acquisition of app builder Paperline to bring in engineering talentiOS — Developer beta 6 of iOS 27 arrived on August 17 with the autumn release drawing closer. If you ship native Swift output, the new OS timeline feeds straight into your release plan
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Rork AI/2026-07-05Advanced

When Your Finance App's AI Keeps Dumping Everything Into 'Other' — Field Notes on Catching Silent Classification Drift

An AI expense classifier in a Rork finance app can be accurate at launch and quietly decay over months until the monthly advice goes wrong. Here is how I instrumented confidence and category distribution to get ahead of the drift, with working code.

Rork AI/2026-06-30Advanced

When Your Rork Hybrid AI Quietly Drifts to the Cloud and the Bill Creeps Up — Field Notes on Instrumenting Routing Decisions

A router that splits work across on-device, edge, and cloud layers will quietly drift toward the cloud when no one logs its decisions — flat traffic, rising bill. These are field notes on instrumenting routing to isolate the cause.

Rork Dev/2026-05-27Advanced

Making Silent Failures Visible Across 6 Rork Apps: An Early-Warning Design Note for Non-Crash Degradation

Notes from running 6 wallpaper apps in parallel and the layer I built in 3 weeks to make Crashlytics-invisible failures observable. Beacons, timeouts, and a small Cloudflare Worker for cross-app aggregation.

Rork Dev/2026-05-25Intermediate

One Month of Reading Xcode Organizer Hang Reports Only on Friday Afternoons

I switched to reading Xcode Organizer Hang Reports for only thirty minutes every Friday for a month. Here is how it compared with Crashlytics and what actually improved across my wallpaper apps.

Rork Dev/2026-05-23Intermediate

Three Weeks Triaging Crashlytics Velocity Alerts With Claude in Chrome

I spent three weeks letting Claude in Chrome open Firebase and triage Crashlytics Velocity Alerts for my wallpaper app. Here is what actually got easier, and what still needs human judgment.

Rork Dev/2026-05-22Advanced

Designing an Observability Stack for Rork Max — Unifying Sentry, Crashlytics, and Cloudflare Logs from a Solo Developer's View

A practical observability stack design for apps shipped with Rork Max, covering Sentry, Crashlytics, and Cloudflare Logs role separation, scenario-based incident tracing routes, and how a solo developer can sustain it over years.