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●PLAY — Google Play's target API level 36 requirement took effect yesterday, August 31. From today, new apps and updates must target Android 16●VISIBILITY — Apps still on API 35 stay listed but disappear for users on newer Android versions. No error is raised; new installs simply fade, which makes the change easy to miss●EXTENSION — If you missed the deadline, an extension through November 1, 2026 can be requested in Play Console — best filed alongside a concrete migration plan●APPLE — On the Apple side, the event lands September 9 and iOS 27 is reported to ship September 14. Testing generated apps on iOS 27 hardware before release week is time well spent●EXPO — Expo released expo-paste-input on August 28, a native module that brings image, GIF, and sticker paste to React Native TextInput●EAS — EAS Observe reached general availability on August 20, putting crash and performance monitoring on the same EAS platform as builds and updates●PLAY — Google Play's target API level 36 requirement took effect yesterday, August 31. From today, new apps and updates must target Android 16●VISIBILITY — Apps still on API 35 stay listed but disappear for users on newer Android versions. No error is raised; new installs simply fade, which makes the change easy to miss●EXTENSION — If you missed the deadline, an extension through November 1, 2026 can be requested in Play Console — best filed alongside a concrete migration plan●APPLE — On the Apple side, the event lands September 9 and iOS 27 is reported to ship September 14. Testing generated apps on iOS 27 hardware before release week is time well spent●EXPO — Expo released expo-paste-input on August 28, a native module that brings image, GIF, and sticker paste to React Native TextInput●EAS — EAS Observe reached general availability on August 20, putting crash and performance monitoring on the same EAS platform as builds and updates
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⬡ Rork Dev/2026-09-01Intermediate

Adding image paste with expo-paste-input, and moving the disappearing file:// URIs out of cache

How to let users paste images and GIFs into a chat input with expo-paste-input. The URIs that onPaste hands you are temporary files that can vanish before the user hits send. Here is the relocation code and the order I verify it on real devices.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-06-21Advanced

Your Rork App's Photos Look Sideways Only After Upload — Normalizing EXIF Orientation and Stripping Location Metadata

A photo that looks upright in your app rotates 90 degrees once it hits your server. The cause is the EXIF Orientation tag. Here's how to bake the rotation into pixels and strip location metadata with expo-image-manipulator before uploading.

⬡ Rork Dev/2026-05-13Intermediate

Supabase Storage Returns 403 After Image Upload in Rork Apps ─ Fixing RLS Policies and Bucket Settings

Uploaded an image to Supabase Storage in your Rork app, but the URL returns 403 Forbidden? This guide covers the three most common causes: bucket Public/Private settings, missing RLS SELECT policies, and the getPublicUrl vs createSignedUrl confusion — with working code examples.