Bolting WidgetKit onto a Rork iOS App: Implementation Notes from Rolling It Out to Six Wallpaper Apps Simultaneously
A hands-on note on adding a WidgetKit Extension to a Rork-generated iOS app, with operational lessons from rolling out widgets to six wallpaper apps at once — App Group plumbing, Timeline Provider choices, memory ceilings, and ASO side effects.
iOS Foreground Notifications Disappear in Expo — A Practical Fix Guide
A focused walkthrough of why iOS silently drops push notifications when the app is in the foreground, and how to wire setNotificationHandler correctly for iOS 14+ with expo-notifications.
Implementation Notes: Adding StoreKit 2 In-App Purchases to a Rork iOS App
Notes from grafting StoreKit 2 in-app purchases onto Swift/SwiftUI code generated by Rork, drawing on the StoreKit 1-to-2 migration done across a 50M-cumulative-download wallpaper-app portfolio. Covers ProductID design, transaction verification, paywall UI, and production gotchas.
iOS Memory Pressure on Rork Apps — A 5-Tier Release Architecture from 12 Years of Wallpaper Apps
A 5-tier memory release architecture for Rork-built iOS apps, refined while running wallpaper apps to a cumulative 50 million downloads. Includes the Instruments + MetricKit measurement flow that brought OOM rate from 4.3% to 0.36%.
Adding AppLovin MAX to a Rork-Generated iOS Project — A Field Note on Init Order, ATT Consent, and eCPM A/B Testing
A field note from an indie developer on layering AppLovin MAX on top of a Rork-generated iOS app: SDK initialization order, ATT and MAX consent flag sync, and a minimal A/B setup to compare eCPM against AdMob-only.
expo-haptics Silent on Production Builds in Rork — Simulator, Device, and Low Power Mode Pitfalls
Your Rork-generated app taps the favorite button and nothing happens on TestFlight — but Expo Go works fine. Lessons from a wallpaper indie shop on the five most common reasons expo-haptics goes silent, with working call patterns for each.
Rork iOS App Rejected with ITMS-90683 on TestFlight — How to Fix Missing Purpose Strings via app.json
If your Rork-built iOS app passes upload but gets an email titled ITMS-90683: Missing Purpose String in Info.plist, this guide walks through the real cause and the permanent fix via app.json, based on 12 years of shipping personal iOS apps with the same problem appearing across new SDK updates.
Fixing 0x8badf00d Watchdog Kills That Wipe Out Rork Apps at Launch
Your Rork iOS app dies right after launch on real devices, but never on your bench. Crashlytics shows exception code 0x8badf00d. Here is how to read the exact watchdog budget out of the crash log and rearrange your launch path so it stops.
A month of running Rork and Claude on Xcode side by side — where each one ended up fitting
Notes from an indie developer who has shipped wallpaper apps on iOS and Android since 2014. After a month of keeping both Rork and Claude on Xcode open on the same desk, the work that fit each one turned out to be more obvious than I expected.
Fixing Linking.canOpenURL False Returns on iOS in Rork
Production iOS builds silently route every user to the mobile web instead of opening TikTok or X? This is almost always a missing LSApplicationQueriesSchemes entry. Here is the full fix path for Rork.
Adapting Your Rork iOS App to iPhone Air and 17 Pro Series — Layout Patterns for 2026's New Resolutions
iPhone Air introduced a 420pt width that sits between the standard and Max models, quietly breaking layout conditionals in existing Rork apps. Based on updating four iOS apps at once, this covers device constant management, Safe Area handling, and full-screen image display fixes.
Migrating Firebase CocoaPods to SPM in Rork Max Apps
Firebase Apple SDK's CocoaPods distribution ends in October 2026. Here's a detailed migration log from moving 4 Rork Max iOS apps to Swift Package Manager — including dSYM failures, module errors, and the Dropbox conflict copy problem you'll definitely hit.