Pairing Rork with Convex for a Type-Safe Reactive Backend — From Subscriptions to File Handling
A complete, production-oriented guide to wiring Convex into a Rork-generated React Native app. Schema design, reactive subscriptions, file uploads, Clerk auth, cron jobs, and the pitfalls you only find after shipping.
Adding Sign in with Apple to Your Rork App — What Review Actually Requires and Where People Get Stuck
A practical walkthrough for adding Sign in with Apple to an existing Rork app. Covers the exact Guideline 4.8 requirements that reject Google/Facebook-only apps, the non-obvious parts of expo-apple-authentication, backend token verification with identityToken, and the account deletion requirement most tutorials skip.
Why Your Rork App Can't Save Images to the Camera Roll — A Complete Fix
Image and video saving often breaks the moment a Rork-generated app leaves the simulator. This guide walks through the permission model, expo-media-library quirks, and Android 13+ scoped storage changes that reliably trip people up.
Production AI Observability for Rork Apps with Langfuse: Tracing, Cost, and Quality Evals
A practical guide to instrumenting Rork-built AI apps with Langfuse — end-to-end tracing, per-user cost accounting, and automated quality evals you can run in production.
State Updated in Rork But UI Won't Re-render? Five Patterns and Fixes
setState is firing in your Rork-generated code but the UI refuses to update. Five common root causes — mutation, stale closures, Zustand selectors, missed dependencies, unmounted updates — each with Before/After code.
When Rork / Rork Max Gets Stuck Mid-Build or Mid-Generation: A Recovery Flow
Your Rork or Rork Max project froze partway through. Generation paused and never resumed, the native build keeps failing while preview works, the project itself refuses to move forward. This guide categorizes the four stuck modes, shows how to diagnose yours in ten seconds, and walks through the recovery path that actually unblocks each one.
Your First Monetized App With Rork — From Idea to Store to First Revenue
An end-to-end playbook for an indie developer shipping their first revenue-earning app on Rork — covering idea validation, building, store submission, and the first $100.
Adding Features to an Existing Rork App Without Breaking It
When you add a new feature to an app you already built in Rork, the AI often rewrites code it shouldn't touch. Here's the prompt pattern I arrived at after many failed attempts — five practical moves for steering Rork's AI precisely.
Using Notion as a CMS Backend for Rork Apps — Auth, Block Rendering, Rate Limits, and the 1-Hour Image URL Problem
Put Notion behind your Rork app. Pick the right auth model, render Notion blocks safely, survive the 1-hour image URL expiry, and stay under the API rate limit — a production-grade walkthrough.
Eliminating Flicker and Scroll Conflicts in Pull-to-Refresh for Rork Apps
If pull-to-refresh in your Rork app flashes white, jumps to the top, or leaves the spinner hanging, the fix is almost always in how refreshing state and scroll view nesting are handled. Here are the patterns that make it feel solid.
Designing Rork Apps That Don't Let Users Down on Bad-Signal Days — UX Patterns for Unstable Networks
After shipping a Rork app, the #1 reason I was losing review stars wasn't a crash — it was 'the screen just stays blank.' Here's how I redesign loading, empty, and error states so the experience gracefully degrades on flaky connections.
Integrating Siri and Shortcuts into Rork Apps: App Intents with Expo, Without the Pitfalls
A production-grade guide to adding Siri Shortcuts and App Intents to a React Native app generated by Rork. Bridge native Swift via an Expo Config Plugin, model AppShortcut / AppEntity / EntityQuery correctly, and ship Donations and Control Center widgets without breaking Apple's conventions.