●NATIVE — Because Rork Max generates pure Swift and SwiftUI, it reaches AR and LiDAR, Metal-backed 3D, Home Screen widgets, Dynamic Island, Live Activities, HealthKit, NFC and Core ML●CHOICE — Put the other way around, if your app touches none of those Apple-specific capabilities, the regular cross-platform Rork is enough. That single question decides whether Max is worth it●PLAY — From August 31, new apps and app updates on Google Play must target API level 36, or Android 16. Nine days remain●PLAY — Even an app you are not updating needs to target API level 35 or higher to keep reaching new users on newer Android devices. Miss it and only new installs quietly stop●GRACE — An extension form in Play Console buys you until November 1, but it is not automatic. The request itself has to be filed before August 31●EXPO — expo prebuild now clears and regenerates the native directories by default. Pass no-clean if you have edited them by hand, which is easy to trip over mid API 36 migration●NATIVE — Because Rork Max generates pure Swift and SwiftUI, it reaches AR and LiDAR, Metal-backed 3D, Home Screen widgets, Dynamic Island, Live Activities, HealthKit, NFC and Core ML●CHOICE — Put the other way around, if your app touches none of those Apple-specific capabilities, the regular cross-platform Rork is enough. That single question decides whether Max is worth it●PLAY — From August 31, new apps and app updates on Google Play must target API level 36, or Android 16. Nine days remain●PLAY — Even an app you are not updating needs to target API level 35 or higher to keep reaching new users on newer Android devices. Miss it and only new installs quietly stop●GRACE — An extension form in Play Console buys you until November 1, but it is not automatic. The request itself has to be filed before August 31●EXPO — expo prebuild now clears and regenerates the native directories by default. Pass no-clean if you have edited them by hand, which is easy to trip over mid API 36 migration