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●GPT-6.1 SOL — Added to Rork's model menu (09-29) with Low, Medium and High effort; included on Pro and Max●SONNET 5.5 — Claude Sonnet 5.5 is selectable: strong at UI design and faster than Sonnet 5 (09-28)●SONNET 4.5 — Retires on the Claude API on 11/30, 27 days left. If your app calls it, check the migration target●SDK 58 — Moves to React Native 0.88. R8 is now on by default in Android release builds, and iOS prebuild generates a SceneDelegate●OBSERVE — EAS Observe now records native crashes too (SDK 57.0.21 or later, 10/07)●NEW — My App Open Ad Only Showed When the App…●GPT-6.1 SOL — Added to Rork's model menu (09-29) with Low, Medium and High effort; included on Pro and Max●SONNET 5.5 — Claude Sonnet 5.5 is selectable: strong at UI design and faster than Sonnet 5 (09-28)●SONNET 4.5 — Retires on the Claude API on 11/30, 27 days left. If your app calls it, check the migration target●SDK 58 — Moves to React Native 0.88. R8 is now on by default in Android release builds, and iOS prebuild generates a SceneDelegate●OBSERVE — EAS Observe now records native crashes too (SDK 57.0.21 or later, 10/07)●NEW — My App Open Ad Only Showed When the App…
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⬡ Rork Dev/2026-04-25Intermediate

Skeleton Screens in Rork Apps — Practical Patterns for Better Perceived Performance

If your Rork app still shows a spinner on a blank screen during load, you are leaving a lot of perceived performance on the table. Here is how I drop skeleton screens and shimmer effects into Rork-generated React Native code without over-engineering it.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-03-30Advanced

Rork × React Native Reanimated & Gesture Handler — Building 60fps Animations and Advanced Gesture Interactions

Keeping Reanimated 3 and Gesture Handler at 60fps, told through the production pitfalls I hit running wallpaper and calming-tone apps: delayed runOnJS, useDerivedValue caching, FlashList pairing, and missing cancelAnimation — each with real measurements.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-03-21Intermediate

When Your Figma Comp and Your Rork Screen Don't Match — It's Almost Always These Five Properties

You hand Figma to Rork, the generated screen has every element in place, and it still looks wrong. Comparing the numbers instead of the pixels shows the gap collapses into five properties. Includes an Auto Layout translation table and a token file to ship with your prompt.