Spotting the 30% of Bugs Rork Can't Fix Itself — A Hand-Fix Workflow Built Around Export
Rork resolves roughly 70% of the bugs it hits on its own; the remaining 30% needs your hands. Here is the criteria I use to decide whether to keep re-prompting or export and fix it myself, plus working code for the fixes.
Rork vs Rork Max: What's the Difference?
What's the real difference between Rork and Rork Max — pricing, features, platform support, and Android availability? A side-by-side look, updated May 2026.
Notifications You Can Finish Without Opening the App — Interactive Notification Actions for Rork Apps
Those buttons and text fields that appear when you long-press a notification. Here is how to implement interactive notification actions in a Rork-built Expo app for an experience that completes without launching, including the background-execution pitfalls.
Making Rork App API Calls Survive Failure — Timeouts, Exponential Backoff, and Circuit Breakers That Actually Hold
A hands-on implementation log for hardening the API layer of a Rork-generated app. Add timeouts, exponential backoff, and a circuit breaker step by step so your app keeps working even when a dependency goes wobbly.
Calling Apple Foundation Models from a Rork (Expo) App: Bridging On-Device AI Through a Native Module
Rork generates Expo (React Native) apps, but Apple Foundation Models ships as a Swift framework you can't touch from JavaScript. Here's how to write an Expo Modules API bridge, gate it by availability, and fall back to the cloud on unsupported devices.
Routing inference on-device first and escaping to the cloud only when it's worth it, in a Rork app
Build a tiered, fallback-based inference router in a Rork (Expo) app: cache to on-device to Private Cloud Compute to a remote API (Claude/Gemini). Working TypeScript covering budgets, timeouts, caching, and image routing.
Keeping a Rork-Built Expo App Ready for Kotlin Migration — Design Notes After Android Studio's Migration Agent Announcement
Android Studio's new agent can migrate React Native apps to native Kotlin. Here is how I restructured a Rork-built Expo app to stay migration-ready: a native dependency audit script, a portable core layer pattern, and a readiness checklist.
When Hiragana Doesn't Match Katakana — Japanese-Aware In-App Search for Rork Apps
A hiragana query silently missing katakana titles is a UX failure users never report. How I fixed Japanese search in my wallpaper app with NFKC normalization, kana folding, and precomputed search keys.
Android 17 Will Ignore Your Portrait Lock — Getting Rork-Built Expo Apps Ready for Large Screens Ahead of Time
Android 17 stops honoring orientation locks and resizability restrictions on large-screen devices. Here is how I assessed the impact on my Rork-built Expo apps, reworked the layouts, and verified everything with nothing but an emulator.
Your Rork App's 'Documents & Data' Keeps Growing — Taming expo-image's Disk Cache
My wallpaper app's binary was 40 MB, yet 'Documents & Data' had ballooned to 2.4 GB. Here is how I diagnosed expo-image's unbounded disk cache and fixed it with cachePolicy tuning, thumbnail URLs, and generational cache clearing.
Unifying Onboarding Across Six Wallpaper Apps: What One Month of First-Day Retention Showed Me
I folded the onboarding flows of six wallpaper apps scaffolded with Rork into a single config-driven component and watched first-day retention and push opt-in for a month. Here is an honest, operational note on what moved and what didn't.
Measuring the Real eCPM Yourself: Piping Impression-Level Ad Revenue Into Your Own Analytics
The AdMob dashboard's average eCPM hides which regions and placements actually earn. Here is how I capture per-impression revenue with paidEventListener, normalize it, and pipe it into my own analytics to compute a real eCPM by network, placement, and country.