Long-Press Context Menus for a Gallery Item in a Rork Expo App
Long-pressing a wallpaper card does nothing, yet iOS users expect a preview and a menu. From why Pressable alone falls short, to a native context menu with zeego, resolving the scroll-vs-long-press conflict, wiring up save and share, and a custom overlay fallback for Android — all with working code.
Watermark Only the Shared Image in Your Rork Wallpaper App
In a Rork-generated Expo wallpaper or image app, keep saved images untouched and burn a watermark only into the share export, shown two ways — react-native-view-shot and Skia — with the resolution-loss pitfalls to avoid.
Why Wallpapers Look Dull on Device: Taming Display P3 in the Delivery Pipeline
The same wallpaper looked dull once set on device. The culprit was a mix-up between wide-gamut Display P3 and sRGB. Beyond embedding profiles, here is how to tell whether the pixels are truly wide-gamut, a pre-delivery gate script, and the Android wide-color story, across six wallpaper apps.
A Wallpaper App's Real Work Starts After Launch — Content, Retention, and Revenue Notes from Running One on Rork
A wallpaper app is decided less by its launch and more by how you tend it afterward. Building on a Rork implementation, here are field notes on scheduled publishing that keeps content fresh, onboarding that survives the first week, and a revenue setup whose per-download return doesn't thin out over time.
Shipping Wallpaper Packs Without an App Review — Versioning and Delta Delivery for Remote Assets Across Six Apps
Re-submitting your app every time you add ten wallpapers grinds operations to a halt. Here is a manifest-based versioning scheme with delta downloads, cache invalidation, and rollback — with the implementation and measured transfer savings from running six apps in parallel.
Putting a Wallpaper Shuffle in Control Center — a ControlWidget in a Rork (Expo) App, Rebuilt for iOS 26
Field notes on bolting a Control Center control (ControlWidget) onto a Rork-built React Native wallpaper app — App Group sharing, AppIntent, the Expo config plugin that survives prebuild, and what changed when I rebuilt it for iOS 26 accented rendering.
Getting Users All the Way to 'Set as Wallpaper' on iOS — Save-to-Photos Permissions and Shortcuts
iOS apps cannot set the wallpaper directly. Here is how I handle add-only photo permissions, Live Photo saving, guiding users to Settings, and Shortcuts automation, with real numbers from running six wallpaper apps.
Adding Slideshow and Page Jump to My Android Wallpaper Apps
Implementation notes from adding slideshow, a page-jump slider, and an ad-free option to the Android editions of Beautiful 4K/HDR Wallpapers and Ukiyo-e Wallpapers.
Syncing 'Favorite Wallpapers' Across Devices with NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore in Rork iOS Apps — Implementation Notes from Six Apps Run in Parallel
For Rork-generated iOS apps, syncing a small set of favorites across devices is often better served by NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore than CloudKit. From the perspective of running six wallpaper apps in parallel, this article shares the threshold design, conflict resolution, and first-launch restore order learned in production.
Three Weeks of Moving Six Wallpaper Apps from AsyncStorage to MMKV in Rork
Notes from three weeks of gradually moving six wallpaper apps from AsyncStorage to react-native-mmkv. Personal write-up from an indie developer who has been shipping iOS and Android apps since 2014.
Tuning Interstitial Ad Fatigue Across Six Rork iOS Wallpaper Apps with Crashlytics and Remote Config
An implementation note from running six Rork-built iOS wallpaper apps in parallel and rebalancing interstitial fatigue with a three-layer frequency cap powered by Crashlytics non-fatal signals and Remote Config thresholds. Swift code, Cloudflare Workers config, and measured eCPM / D1 retention numbers from a four-week phased rollout.
Two Weeks Tightening Up iPad Support for a Rork-Generated Wallpaper App
Notes from spending two weeks tightening up iPad support for a wallpaper app I scaffolded with Rork. Coming from an iPhone-centric indie practice since 2014, I cover where Rork's defaults stopped, how the AdMob adaptive banner misbehaved on iPad, and what changed in retention afterwards.