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●DEADLINE — From August 31, 2026, Google Play requires target API level 36 (Android 16) or higher for both new apps and updates to existing ones. Twelve days left●EXTENSION — If you cannot make the date, the deadline extension form in Play Console buys you until November 1. The extension is not automatic, so the request itself has to land before August 31●TARGET SDK — Even for the Expo and React Native apps Rork produces, the targetSdkVersion is yours to verify. A template pinned to an older SDK will not meet the requirement on its own●RORK MAX — Where the original Rork emits React Native and Expo, Rork Max generates native Swift, covering iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Vision Pro, and iMessage●FUNDING — A $15M seed round led by Left Lane Capital was announced on April 9, alongside the acquisition of app builder Paperline to bring in engineering talent●iOS — Developer beta 6 of iOS 27 arrived on August 17 with the autumn release drawing closer. If you ship native Swift output, the new OS timeline feeds straight into your release plan●DEADLINE — From August 31, 2026, Google Play requires target API level 36 (Android 16) or higher for both new apps and updates to existing ones. Twelve days left●EXTENSION — If you cannot make the date, the deadline extension form in Play Console buys you until November 1. The extension is not automatic, so the request itself has to land before August 31●TARGET SDK — Even for the Expo and React Native apps Rork produces, the targetSdkVersion is yours to verify. A template pinned to an older SDK will not meet the requirement on its own●RORK MAX — Where the original Rork emits React Native and Expo, Rork Max generates native Swift, covering iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV, Vision Pro, and iMessage●FUNDING — A $15M seed round led by Left Lane Capital was announced on April 9, alongside the acquisition of app builder Paperline to bring in engineering talent●iOS — Developer beta 6 of iOS 27 arrived on August 17 with the autumn release drawing closer. If you ship native Swift output, the new OS timeline feeds straight into your release plan
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⬡ Rork Dev/2026-06-24Advanced

Building a Breathing-Paced Haptic for a Meditation App with CoreHaptics

Canned expo-haptics buzzes can't produce the swell of a breath. Here is how to call CoreHaptics continuous events and parameter curves from an Expo native module to build a haptic synced to 4-7-8 breathing, with working Swift and TypeScript code.

◉ Rork AI/2026-06-19Advanced

Before You Pay $200/mo for Rork Max, Map How Far Expo Reaches in Three Tiers

Wanting widgets or Live Activities makes Rork Max tempting, but most of those features are reachable from the Expo setup that standard Rork generates. Here is how I sort each Apple-native feature into three tiers—reachable in Expo, reachable with a custom module, or where Max is the pragmatic answer—and verify which tier my app is in before paying.

◉ Rork AI/2026-06-14Advanced

Calling Apple Foundation Models from a Rork (Expo) App: Bridging On-Device AI Through a Native Module

Rork generates Expo (React Native) apps, but Apple Foundation Models ships as a Swift framework you can't touch from JavaScript. Here's how to write an Expo Modules API bridge, gate it by availability, and fall back to the cloud on unsupported devices.