Shipping an AI App to the App Store and Google Play in 2026: The Rules Most Builders MissBuilding an AI-powered app has never been easier. A chat assistant, a photo enhancer, a meal planner that writes recipes: with an LLM API and an AI coding tool, a working version can take a weekend. GOct 19 · 9 min readhugorus.hashnode.dev
Your Supabase RLS Policies Need Tests: Catching Data Leaks with pgTAP Before They ShipRow Level Security is the only thing standing between your users' data and anyone holding your app's public key. In an Expo app, that key ships inside the bundle. Anyone can extract it and query your Oct 15 · 8 min readhugorus.hashnode.dev
Give Claude Code Eyes on Your Expo App: A Practical Guide to the Expo MCP ServerAI coding agents have two blind spots in Expo projects. They're working from old docs. Expo moves fast. SDK 58's Expo Router alone removes initialRouteName, changes how tabs decide which screens to shOct 12 · 7 min readhugorus.hashnode.dev
Stop Rebuilding What Didn't Change: Fingerprint-Driven EAS Workflows for Expo AppsMost Expo teams run a full native build on every merge. A typo fix in a screen component triggers 15 minutes of iOS compilation, a build credit, and a new binary that's identical to the last one excepOct 8 · 7 min readhugorus.hashnode.dev
Stripe or In-App Purchase? How to Take Payments in a Prompt-Built Expo App Without Getting RejectedYou prompted your way to a working mobile app. The screens look right, the data loads, your friends tapped through it on their phones. Then you reach the paywall screen and the questions pile up. Do y3IOct 1 · 8 min readhugorus.hashnode.dev
