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You can no longer create Expo (React Native) projects in Rork. New apps are native iPhone (Swift), native Android (Kotlin), or web. If you already have an Expo project, it keeps working: you can build it, publish it, and export the code to GitHub as before.

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Why we build native apps

Rork now writes apps in the language each platform ships with: SwiftUI on iPhone, Kotlin + Compose on Android. Expo and React Native are a real native stack. They render native UI, and many production apps ship that way. We still stopped creating Expo projects because of how Rork is set up:
  • Xcode and Android Studio. Export is a normal Swift or Kotlin project. That is the project shape for widgets, Live Activities, Watch, HealthKit, and Play review.
  • Per-platform APIs. The agent writes those features in Swift or Kotlin, in the same app you export.
  • App Store and Play. A Swift app and a Kotlin app read as native store apps. That is the path we want for new Rork projects.

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Two native apps, one project

React Native shares one JavaScript codebase across iOS and Android. That is a real engineering advantage. Rork does not keep that model. An iPhone app and an Android app are two separate native apps. What stays shared is the product around them. Build for one platform first, then add the next one. Click + above the preview and pick the platform:
The + menu above the preview: add Android (Kotlin) or Web to an iPhone app
The agent recreates your screens, navigation, data flows, and design in the new app. Both apps then live in one project, with:
  • One backend and one database. Your data model does not get duplicated.
  • One chat and one context. The agent knows your whole product, so “add dark mode to both iOS and Android” can update each app.
  • One place to publish. App Store, Google Play, and the web, from the same Publish menu.
The two apps can still drift. A Swift change is not the same file as a Kotlin change. The agent is how you keep them in sync. That is different from one shared React Native codebase.

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I already have an Expo project

It keeps working: you can build it, publish it, and sync it to GitHub as before. We strongly recommend moving it to native code. Open your Expo project and look at the panel next to the preview. Rork offers to rebuild the app in SwiftUI for you:
The "Make this app native iOS" card next to the preview, with the Add iOS app button
Click Add iOS app and the agent recreates your screens, navigation, data flows, and design as a native iPhone app in Swift. Your Expo app stays untouched in the same project, so nothing is lost if you want to compare them. For Android, add the native app the same way: click + above the preview and pick Android (Kotlin), or ask in chat:
Both new apps live in the same project as your Expo app, sharing the backend and the chat, so you can move over one platform at a time. Not sure which platform to start with? See iPhone, Android, or web: what’s the difference, and Convert your app between iOS, Android, and web for every path between platforms.