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The Best AI Builder for iOS Widgets: An Honest Guide: the App Store logo as a frosted glass icon on a pink and blue gradient with bubbles
Guides 9 min read

The Best AI Builder for iOS Widgets: An Honest Guide

iOS widgets are SwiftUI-only, so the best AI builder is one that writes Swift. Here is how Cursor, Claude Code, Rork, and Lovable actually compare for widget work.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a Booking.com-Style Availability Calendar in SwiftUI: a glossy App Store icon on a blue, pink and orange gradient with bubbles
Guides 8 min read

Build a Booking.com-Style Availability Calendar in SwiftUI

A Booking.com-style availability picker is more than a date picker. Here is how to build the availability calendar in SwiftUI, with real open and booked dates.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a Buienradar-Style Rain Map Overlay in SwiftUI: a glass iPhone UI wireframe icon on a holographic purple gradient
Guides 8 min read

Build a Buienradar-Style Rain Map Overlay in SwiftUI

A rain radar is colored precipitation tiles over a map with a scrubbable timeline. Here is how to build the Buienradar-style rain map overlay in SwiftUI.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a High-Performance Candlestick Chart in React Native: a reflective 3D App Store icon on a blue and purple gradient
Guides 8 min read

Build a High-Performance Candlestick Chart in React Native

A candlestick chart with thousands of candles and smooth pan-zoom needs Skia, not SVG. Here is how to build a high-performance candlestick chart in React Native.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Convert a Figma Prototype to a Working iOS App With AI: a reflective 3D App Store icon on a blue and purple gradient
Guides 8 min read

Convert a Figma Prototype to a Working iOS App With AI

A Figma prototype is visuals, not an app, and AI reads it as web. Here is how the Figma-to-iOS paths really compare, and the cleanest way to get native code.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
What a Crypto Airdrop Claim Screen UI Kit Needs (iOS): the App Store logo as a glossy glass icon on a purple and blue gradient with floating bubbles
Guides 9 min read

What a Crypto Airdrop Claim Screen UI Kit Needs (iOS)

An airdrop claim is a signature, not a payment, and fake claim screens drain wallets. Here is what a safe crypto claim UI kit needs, and where to get one.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
An Offline-First Folder Architecture for Expo Apps: a vivid neon 3D App Store icon on an orange, pink and blue gradient
Guides 7 min read

An Offline-First Folder Architecture for Expo Apps

An offline-first Expo app needs a clear data, sync, and UI split. Here is a folder architecture that keeps offline working and an AI agent on track while it builds.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build an Uber-Style Route Line on a Map in React Native: a glass photo icon surrounded by chat, music, heart, camera and shopping app icons on a pastel gradient
Guides 8 min read

Build an Uber-Style Route Line on a Map in React Native

An Uber-style routing line is a road-following polyline from pickup to destination, not a straight line. Here is how to build it on the map in React Native.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build an Intercom-Style Support Video Call UI on iOS: a glass app tile showing the VP0 logo on a pink and blue gradient
Guides 6 min read

Build an Intercom-Style Support Video Call UI on iOS

Intercom-style support chat has no native video calls. Here is how to build an in-app customer support video call UI on iOS with WebRTC, CallKit, and PushKit.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build an Iron Dome-Style Critical Alert App in SwiftUI: the App Store logo as a frosted glass icon on a pink and blue gradient with bubbles
Guides 7 min read

Build an Iron Dome-Style Critical Alert App in SwiftUI

An Iron Dome-style alert app is a critical public-safety UI. Here is how to build the full-screen alert, the take-cover countdown, and the region map in SwiftUI.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a KYC Passport + Liveness Detection UI on iOS: a glass iPhone app-grid icon on a mint and teal gradient
Guides 9 min read

Build a KYC Passport + Liveness Detection UI on iOS

You guide the capture; a certified provider proves the identity. Here is how to build the KYC passport and liveness detection circle UI on iOS, done right.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a Live Translation Closed Captions Overlay on iOS: a reflective 3D App Store icon on a blue and purple gradient
Guides 8 min read

Build a Live Translation Closed Captions Overlay on iOS

Live captions transcribe speech in real time and stay readable over anything. Here is how to build a live translation closed captions overlay on iOS.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Lovable AI Source Limits: Structure Layouts Before Export: the App Store logo as a frosted glass icon on a pink and blue gradient with bubbles
Guides 7 min read

Lovable AI Source Limits: Structure Layouts Before Export

Lovable AI caps how much source it writes per request, so big mobile screens come back incomplete. Here is how to structure layouts so the output stays clean.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a High-Performance NFT Gallery Grid in React Native: the App Store logo as a glossy glass icon on a purple and blue gradient with floating bubbles
Guides 9 min read

Build a High-Performance NFT Gallery Grid in React Native

An NFT gallery janks on large IPFS images at scale. Here is how to build a fast, virtualized NFT grid in React Native with cached, fallback-capable loading.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build an NS Flex Travel History Timeline in React Native: a glossy App Store icon on a blue, pink and orange gradient with bubbles
Guides 7 min read

Build an NS Flex Travel History Timeline in React Native

A travel history timeline lists past journeys by date. Here is how to build the NS Flex trip-history screen in React Native with fast scrolling and offline cache.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a Pet Vaccination Record PDF Generator on iOS: the App Store logo on a glass tile over a blue gradient with bubbles
Guides 9 min read

Build a Pet Vaccination Record PDF Generator on iOS

Generate a real, paginated PDF of a pet's vaccination records, not a screenshot. Here is how to build the record PDF generator UI on iOS with PDFKit.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a Custom Screen Time Chart UI in React Native: a glass app tile showing the VP0 logo on a pink and blue gradient
Guides 6 min read

Build a Custom Screen Time Chart UI in React Native

A custom screen time chart has two parts: the usage data and the chart. Here is how to build the screen time chart UI in React Native, data limits and all.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a Free Sendbird-Style Chat UI in React Native: a glass iPhone app-grid icon on a mint and teal gradient
Guides 6 min read

Build a Free Sendbird-Style Chat UI in React Native

Sendbird's chat UI kit is tied to its backend. Here is how to build the same React Native chat screens, channel list, message bubbles, and composer, for free.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a Shopee-Style Marketplace UI in React Native: a glossy App Store icon on a blue, pink and orange gradient with bubbles
Guides 6 min read

Build a Shopee-Style Marketplace UI in React Native

A Shopee clone is a marketplace home: search, category grid, flash sales, and a product grid. Here is how to build the Shopee UI in React Native, payments included.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a Sideloading iOS App Install Animation in SwiftUI: a glass iPhone UI wireframe icon on a holographic purple gradient
Guides 8 min read

Build a Sideloading iOS App Install Animation in SwiftUI

In the EU, an alt-marketplace install is a real, system-gated flow. Here is how to build the sideloading install animation in SwiftUI, honestly.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Add Siri Shortcuts and App Intents to a React Native App: a glossy App Store icon on a blue, pink and orange gradient with bubbles
Guides 7 min read

Add Siri Shortcuts and App Intents to a React Native App

Siri Shortcuts in React Native need native App Intents in Swift. Here is how to define them, bridge to your RN app, and let Siri and Apple Intelligence run them.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a Smooth, Scrolling Social Media Feed in SwiftUI: a glass iPhone UI wireframe icon on a holographic purple gradient
Guides 6 min read

Build a Smooth, Scrolling Social Media Feed in SwiftUI

A social media feed in SwiftUI is a scrolling list of post cards. Here is how to build it so it stays smooth with images, likes, and infinite scroll.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a Sora-Style AI Video Progress Bar in SwiftUI: a glass photo icon surrounded by chat, music, heart, camera and shopping app icons on a pastel gradient
Guides 9 min read

Build a Sora-Style AI Video Progress Bar in SwiftUI

AI video generation is slow and server-side, so honest progress beats a fake percentage. Here is how to build the Sora-style progress UI in SwiftUI.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026
Build a Spatial Video Recording Camera UI in SwiftUI: the App Store logo as a frosted glass icon on a pink and blue gradient with bubbles
Guides 6 min read

Build a Spatial Video Recording Camera UI in SwiftUI

Spatial video is stereoscopic 3D recorded on iPhone Pro and Vision Pro. Here is how to build the spatial video recording camera UI in SwiftUI with capture guidance.

Lawrence Arya · June 8, 2026