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R8 — From Expo SDK 58, R8 is enabled by default for Android release builds. Measuring the same code before and after shows both what shrank and what brokeXCODE26.6 — The Xcode 27 image for EAS Build is still coming soon, and latest is still Xcode 26.6. Which bugs you hit depends on whether your local Xcode is already on 2711/01 — Extension requests for the Google Play target API level close on November 1, forty days away. New and updated apps need API 36 or higher, existing apps API 35 or higherFETCH — expo/fetch is reported to hang without settling on iOS, while Android resolves a truncated body as a plain 200. Nothing throws, so the timeout has to be yoursNEW — A build that stops at exit code 0: the flag that silenced the logs, and the check that let an empty file throughSCENE — expo@57.0.23 added an opt-in for launching under Xcode 27 while staying on SDK 57. Enable ios.enableSceneSupport through expo-build-propertiesR8 — From Expo SDK 58, R8 is enabled by default for Android release builds. Measuring the same code before and after shows both what shrank and what brokeXCODE26.6 — The Xcode 27 image for EAS Build is still coming soon, and latest is still Xcode 26.6. Which bugs you hit depends on whether your local Xcode is already on 2711/01 — Extension requests for the Google Play target API level close on November 1, forty days away. New and updated apps need API 36 or higher, existing apps API 35 or higherFETCH — expo/fetch is reported to hang without settling on iOS, while Android resolves a truncated body as a plain 200. Nothing throws, so the timeout has to be yoursNEW — A build that stops at exit code 0: the flag that silenced the logs, and the check that let an empty file throughSCENE — expo@57.0.23 added an opt-in for launching under Xcode 27 while staying on SDK 57. Enable ios.enableSceneSupport through expo-build-properties
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Business/2026-04-18Intermediate

Why My Rork App Made Zero in Month One — and What I Did to Get the First Sale

A candid account of launching a Rork app and earning nothing for the first month. Not a strategy guide — a record of the actual mistakes, what caused them, and what changed when the first revenue finally appeared.