App Contents Macos Folder

CFBundleExecutable - Name of the executable file assumed to be in Contents/MacOS/ sub-folder. There are lots more options, the ones listed above are only the bare minimum. Here's some Apple documentation on the Info.plist file and App bundle structure. Also, Here's a sample Info.plist.

16 January 2020

In this article I'll try to provide a step-by-step guide describing publishing of MacOS Electron.JS application to Mac App Store highlighting all tricky moments.

First of all, everything said here is relevant to the early 2020.

The most important thing: only applications based on Electron 5.0.13 and 6.1.7 can be published due to Apple policy. Probably something will be changed soon.

Important definitions

Sandboxing - isolation of your application in special environment with restricted access almost to everything. See original apple video explaining this.

Entitlements - request for permissions for your sandboxed application. Full security entitlements list can be found here.

Provisioning profile - it's something that connect your developer account (certificate), bundle and devices that can install your application.

Publication

Let's imagine that you already have Electron application and you are using Electron builder to build your application.

All listed code can be found at our Electron Nuxt repository.

Go to Certificates, Identifiers & Profiles section at developers.apple.com. At Identifiers section Add new App ID for macOS platform.
Next go to Profiles and create new Provisioning profile for Mac App Store distribution.
Download created profile and place to build folder inside your application source folder. Name it as embedded.provisionprofile
Go to App Store Connect and select My Apps. Add New macOS App.
Select registered on the previous step Bundle ID.
Provide all required information.
Inside build folder create entitlements.mas.plist with at least the following entitlements:
To find your DEVELOPERID go to Membership tab ad developers.apple.com. You can find it under Team Name as Team ID. full.package.name is your registered App Identifier.
At the “build” folder create entitlements.mas.inherit.plist with
And entitlements.mas.loginhelper.plist with
Go to package.json file and add to the build section.
At this point Electron-builder configuration is finished and you can run electron-builder command to package your app. In case you have multiple developers certificates you need to provide appropriate certificate name as
After build process resulting file can be found at dist/mas/*.pkg and should be uploaded to Mac App Store via Transporter application.
Unfortunately, in some cases this is not enough and application is getting rejected as not all binaries are signed during packaging by Electron builder. To fix this after step 4 you should:
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Create build/resignAndPackage.sh script
In build/resignAndPackage.sh change APPLICATION NAME to your application name (should be as productName in package.json). Replace CERTIFICATE NAME (***********) to your certificate name in two places.
Binaries that are listed in build/resignAndPackage.sh valid for Electron 5.0.13. You need to updated them for another Electron version or in case additional binaries will be used. To find binaries run (source)
Binaries from node_modules can be unpacked by listing them in asarUnpack key in package.json
Run
and upload dist/mas/$APP-mac_store.pkg to Mac App Store via Transporter application.
That's all. Probably you'll have 'an amusing trip' with Apple team explaining them why you've built your application, why you need permissions listed at entitlement files, but it's another story :-)
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Using PyInstaller and Homebrew¶

Note

Package your app on the oldest OS X version you want to support.

Complete guide¶

Install Homebrew
Install Python:
Note
To use Python 3, brewinstallpython3 and replace pip withpip3 in the guide below.
(Re)install your dependencies with --build-bottle to make sure they canbe used on other machines:
Note
If your project depends on GStreamer or other additional libraries(re)install them with --build-bottle as describedbelow.
Install Cython and Kivy:
Install PyInstaller:
Package your app using the path to your main.py:
Note
This will not yet copy additional image or sound files. You would need toadapt the created .spec file for that.

Editing the spec file¶

The specs file is named touchtracer.spec and is located in the directorywhere you ran the pyinstaller command.

You need to change the COLLECT() call to add the data of touchtracer(touchtracer.kv, particle.png, …). Change the line to add a Tree()object. This Tree will search and add every file found in the touchtracerdirectory to your final package. Your COLLECT section should look somethinglike this:

This will add the required hooks so that PyInstaller gets the required Kivyfiles. We are done. Your spec is ready to be executed.

Build the spec and create a DMG¶

Open a console.
Go to the PyInstaller directory, and build the spec:
Run:
You will now have a Touchtracer.dmg available in the dist directory.

Additional Libraries¶

GStreamer¶

If your project depends on GStreamer:

Note

If your Project needs Ogg Vorbis support be sure to add the--with-libvorbis option to the command above.

If you are using Python from Homebrew you will also need the following stepuntil this pull requestgets merged:

Using PyInstaller without Homebrew¶

First install Kivy and its dependencies without using Homebrew as mentioned herehttp://kivy.org/docs/installation/installation.html#development-version.

Once you have kivy and its deps installed, you need to install PyInstaller.

Let’s assume we use a folder like testpackaging:

Create a file named touchtracer.spec in this directory and add the followingcode to it:

Change the paths with your relevant paths:

Then run the following command:

Replace touchtracer with your app where appropriate.This will give you a <yourapp>.app in the dist/ folder.

Using Buildozer¶

pip install git+http://github.com/kivy/buildozercd /to/where/I/Want/to/packagebuildozer init

Note

Packaging Kivy applications with the following method must be done insideOS X, 32-bit platforms are no longer supported.

Edit the buildozer.spec and add the details for your app.Dependencies can be added to the requirements= section.

By default the kivy version specified in the requirements is ignored.

If you have a Kivy.app at /Applications/Kivy.app then that is used,for packaging. Otherwise the latest build from kivy.org using Kivymaster will be downloaded and used.

If you want to package for python 3.x.x simply download the packagenamed Kivy3.7z from the download section of kivy.org and extract itto Kivy.app in /Applications, then run:

Once the app is packaged, you might want to remove unneededpackages like gstreamer, if you don’t need video support.Same logic applies for other things you do not use, just reducethe package to its minimal state that is needed for the app to run.

As an example we are including the showcase example packaged usingthis method for both Python 2 (9.xMB) and 3 (15.xMB), you can find thepackages here:https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B1WO07-OL50_alFzSXJUajBFdnc .

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Buildozer right now uses the Kivy SDK to package your app.If you want to control more details about your app than buildozercurrently offers then you can use the SDK directly, as detailed in thesection below.

Using the Kivy SDK¶

Note

Kivy.app is not available for download at the moment. For details,see this issue.

Note

Packaging Kivy applications with the following method must be done insideOS X, 32-bit platforms are no longer supported.

Since version 1.9.0, Kivy is released for the OS X platform in aself-contained, portable distribution.

Apps can be packaged and distributed with the Kivy SDK using the methoddescribed below, making it easier to include frameworks like SDL2 andGStreamer.

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Make sure you have the unmodified Kivy SDK (Kivy.app) from the download page.
Run the following commands:

Note

This step above is important, you have to make sure to preserve the pathsand permissions. A command like cp-rf will copy but make the appunusable and lead to error later on.

Now all you need to do is to include your compiled app in the Kivy.appby running the following command:

Essential Macos Apps

Where <app_folder_name> is the name of your app.

This copies Kivy.app to <app_folder_name>.app and includes a compiled copyof your app into this package.

That’s it, your self-contained package is ready to be deployed!You can now further customize your app as described bellow.

Installing modules¶

Kivy package on osx uses its own virtual env that is activated when you runyour app using kivy command.To install any module you need to install the module like so:

Where are the modules/files installed?¶

Inside the portable venv within the app at:

If you install a module that installs a binary for example like kivy-gardenThat binary will be only available from the venv above, as in after you do:

Adobe flash uninstall mac. The garden lib will be only available when you activate this env.

source /Applications/Kivy.app/Contents/Resources/venv/bin/activategarden install mapviewdeactivate

To install binary files¶

Just copy the binary to the Kivy.app/Contents/Resources/venv/bin/ directory.

To include other frameworks¶

Kivy.app comes with SDL2 and Gstreamer frameworks provided.To include frameworks other than the ones provided do the following:

Do not forget to replace <Framework_name> with your framework.This tool osxrelocator essentially changes the path for thelibs in the framework such that they are relative to the executablewithin the .app, making the Framework portable with the .app.

Shrinking the app size¶

The app has a considerable size right now, however the unneeded parts can beremoved from the package.

For example if you don’t use GStreamer, simply remove it fromYourApp.app/Contents/Frameworks.Similarly you can remove the examples folder from/Applications/Kivy.app/Contents/Resources/kivy/examples/ or kivy/tools,kivy/docs etc.

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This way the package can be made to only include the parts that are needed foryour app.

Adjust settings¶

Icons and other settings of your app can be changed by editingYourApp/Contents/info.plist to suit your needs.

Create a DMG¶