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APPLE — Apple's event is September 9, with the iOS 27 release candidate landing the same day. General release is September 14, preorders September 12, and retail September 18TESTING — That leaves five working days between the RC and the public release. For React Native and Expo apps, it is the last clean window to run everything against Xcode 27 and the iOS 27 SDKSIRI — iOS 27 rebuilds Siri from the ground up, which puts anything using Siri Intents or voice input at the top of the list to verifyPLAY — Google Play's target API level 36 requirement took effect on August 31. If you did not make it, an extension request through November 1 is still available in Play ConsoleEXPO — expo@57.0.17 moves React Native to 0.86.3 and clears the Hermes V1 memory regression that hit apps importing react-native-worklets or reanimatedRORK — The two Rork products build different things: the original generates React Native via Expo, while Rork Max generates Swift and compiles it on a cloud Mac fleetAPPLE — Apple's event is September 9, with the iOS 27 release candidate landing the same day. General release is September 14, preorders September 12, and retail September 18TESTING — That leaves five working days between the RC and the public release. For React Native and Expo apps, it is the last clean window to run everything against Xcode 27 and the iOS 27 SDKSIRI — iOS 27 rebuilds Siri from the ground up, which puts anything using Siri Intents or voice input at the top of the list to verifyPLAY — Google Play's target API level 36 requirement took effect on August 31. If you did not make it, an extension request through November 1 is still available in Play ConsoleEXPO — expo@57.0.17 moves React Native to 0.86.3 and clears the Hermes V1 memory regression that hit apps importing react-native-worklets or reanimatedRORK — The two Rork products build different things: the original generates React Native via Expo, while Rork Max generates Swift and compiles it on a cloud Mac fleet
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Business/2026-04-24Advanced

Rork Max × RevenueCat × AdMob: Complete Implementation Guide for Hybrid Monetization

Build hybrid monetization for Rork Max apps with AdMob and RevenueCat. Complete implementation code, App Store review checklist, real-world metrics from 100k+ download apps.

Rork Dev/2026-04-24Intermediate

Reanimated Worklet Errors in Rork Apps — Six Things to Check Before You Panic

React Native Reanimated throws a lot of worklet errors the moment you add it to a Rork project. This walkthrough covers the six most common causes, from a missing Babel plugin to closure capture bugs, in the order you should investigate them.

Rork Dev/2026-04-24Intermediate

Rork Max SwiftUI Output Won't Build in Xcode — A Symptom-Based Recovery Guide

When Rork Max's generated SwiftUI project fails to build in Xcode, the right fix depends on the exact error. This guide walks through the common failure modes — dependency resolution, Info.plist, entitlements, bundle ID conflicts — with targeted recovery steps for each.

Rork Dev/2026-04-24Advanced

Cut First-Day Drop-off by Half — A Data-Driven Onboarding Design Note for Rork Apps

How do you actually lower the 24-hour drop-off on a Rork-built app? This is a working solo developer's notes — measurement funnel, onboarding cuts I made, and the weekly cadence I use to iterate.

Rork Dev/2026-04-24Advanced

Pairing Rork with Convex for a Type-Safe Reactive Backend — From Subscriptions to File Handling

A complete, production-oriented guide to wiring Convex into a Rork-generated React Native app. Schema design, reactive subscriptions, file uploads, Clerk auth, cron jobs, and the pitfalls you only find after shipping.

Rork Dev/2026-04-24Intermediate

Adding Sign in with Apple to Your Rork App — What Review Actually Requires and Where People Get Stuck

A practical walkthrough for adding Sign in with Apple to an existing Rork app. Covers the exact Guideline 4.8 requirements that reject Google/Facebook-only apps, the non-obvious parts of expo-apple-authentication, backend token verification with identityToken, and the account deletion requirement most tutorials skip.

Rork Dev/2026-04-23Intermediate

Why Your Rork App Can't Save Images to the Camera Roll — A Complete Fix

Image and video saving often breaks the moment a Rork-generated app leaves the simulator. This guide walks through the permission model, expo-media-library quirks, and Android 13+ scoped storage changes that reliably trip people up.

Rork AI/2026-04-23Advanced

Production AI Observability for Rork Apps with Langfuse: Tracing, Cost, and Quality Evals

A practical guide to instrumenting Rork-built AI apps with Langfuse — end-to-end tracing, per-user cost accounting, and automated quality evals you can run in production.

Rork Dev/2026-04-23Intermediate

State Updated in Rork But UI Won't Re-render? Five Patterns and Fixes

setState is firing in your Rork-generated code but the UI refuses to update. Five common root causes — mutation, stale closures, Zustand selectors, missed dependencies, unmounted updates — each with Before/After code.

Rork Basics/2026-04-23Intermediate

When Rork / Rork Max Gets Stuck Mid-Build or Mid-Generation: A Recovery Flow

Your Rork or Rork Max project froze partway through. Generation paused and never resumed, the native build keeps failing while preview works, the project itself refuses to move forward. This guide categorizes the four stuck modes, shows how to diagnose yours in ten seconds, and walks through the recovery path that actually unblocks each one.

Business/2026-04-23Beginner

Your First Monetized App With Rork — From Idea to Store to First Revenue

An end-to-end playbook for an indie developer shipping their first revenue-earning app on Rork — covering idea validation, building, store submission, and the first $100.

Rork Basics/2026-04-23Intermediate

Adding Features to an Existing Rork App Without Breaking It

When you add a new feature to an app you already built in Rork, the AI often rewrites code it shouldn't touch. Here's the prompt pattern I arrived at after many failed attempts — five practical moves for steering Rork's AI precisely.