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●SDK58 — The Expo SDK 58 beta is open. It ships the React Native 0.88 release candidate, and the beta period is stated as three to four weeks●11/01 — For anyone who requested an extension, Google Play's target API deadline lands on November 1. Forty-four days out●EASENV — A long-open report: secrets handed to a local build arrive as the literal variable name rather than its value, and the damage surfaces much later●NEW — The replacement the table recommended had already shut down. A record of reconciling all 74 rows of the deprecation list●UISCENE — iOS 27 requires the new scene lifecycle. SDK 57 makes it something you opt into; it only becomes the default in 58●CREDIT — What "AI errors don't cost credits" actually covers becomes clear once you record a day of asking for the same fix more than once●SDK58 — The Expo SDK 58 beta is open. It ships the React Native 0.88 release candidate, and the beta period is stated as three to four weeks●11/01 — For anyone who requested an extension, Google Play's target API deadline lands on November 1. Forty-four days out●EASENV — A long-open report: secrets handed to a local build arrive as the literal variable name rather than its value, and the damage surfaces much later●NEW — The replacement the table recommended had already shut down. A record of reconciling all 74 rows of the deprecation list●UISCENE — iOS 27 requires the new scene lifecycle. SDK 57 makes it something you opt into; it only becomes the default in 58●CREDIT — What "AI errors don't cost credits" actually covers becomes clear once you record a day of asking for the same fix more than once
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◉ Rork AI/2026-09-15Advanced

Where the AI decision lives once Rork splits your app into two native codebases

New Rork apps are Swift on iPhone and Kotlin on Android — two separate codebases. Here is how I decide which AI-related judgments stay in each client and which move to the shared backend, plus the minimal contract both clients read the same way.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-06-20Advanced

What to Decide Before Spreading One Idea Across Every Apple Platform

Rork Max can generate native Swift for iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Vision Pro from a single idea. But 'can ship to all of them' and 'should ship to all of them' are different things. From an indie developer running several apps, here's a framework for choosing which devices to add and which to skip, reasoned backward from operating cost and usage context.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-06-13Advanced

Choose Native Features by Retention Impact, Not by Checklist

Rork Max can generate widgets, Live Activities, and Core ML alike. But 'can build' and 'should build' are different things. Here is how to decide native-feature adoption by its effect on retention.