Apple
These pages use the taxonomy term "Apple".
How to Automatically Connect Debugger to Extension and App
• 3 minute read
There is a convenient way to automatically connect the debugger in Xcode to a file provider extension and its host app process on run.
How I Test View Controllers
• 4 minute read
By example I want to show how I instantiate and test view controllers from a storyboard in a macOS app using the conventional MVC pattern and AppKit.
Restore Clean NSFileProviderReplicatedExtension Environment
• 4 minute read
While developing and porting macOS file provider extensions based on NSFileProviderReplicatedExtension I sometimes ended up in a messed up state of my environment. I found these steps to restore a clean environment again.
How to manage Login Items in Swift
• 2 minute read
There is a Mac App Store and Sandbox compatible method to implement automatic launch on login. Checking the enablement status before macOS 13 Ventura is a bit tricky, though.
Resetting a Privacy Choice on macOS
• 1 minute read
macOS shows a privacy choice prompt for certain aspects like the address book only when an app requests access the first time. This simple terminal command erases the saved choice.
Passing Build Settings Into Property Lists
• 4 minute read
An app which is customizable for different brands and customers also requires a parameterized build configuration. Some values need to be accessible during runtime, too, while retaining a single source of truth. This is more elegant take on what could have been achieved with preprocessor macros in Objective-C times.
Working with Accessibility in Mind
• 1 minute read
Bring the macOS accessibility feature toggle into the menu bar and quickly inspect your projects with as little as two clicks.
Embedded App Naming Conflict Resolved with Bundle Display Name
• 3 minute read
The app I am working on has a customizable bundle name and embeds another app which should appear with the same name. This causes a conflict which can be overcome by using CFBundleDisplayName.
Packages Not Supported with Legacy Build Locations
• 2 minute read
When I was messing around with Xcode build settings I summoned the tenacious error of unsupported Swift packages in combination with legacy build locations.
Old-Style ASCII Property List Syntax Support for Sublime Text
• 1 minute read
I published a package which provides syntax definitions for old-style ASCII property lists in Sublime Text.
Xcode Configuration Settings Syntax Support for Sublime Text
• 1 minute read
I published a package which provides syntax definitions for Xcode configuration settings files in Sublime Text.
macOS Preferences Window with Storyboards
• 4 minute read
Recently I started with a fresh project from scratch in which I wanted to implement a preferences window with tool bar tabs as they are common on macOS. It is surprisingly easy.
Exporting Unified Logging System Messages with OSLog
• 2 minute read
Logs are useless, if you cannot access them. The introduction of the OSLog framework finally makes it possible to extract logs from the unified logging system. This is how.
Manually Symbolicate Mac App Store Crash
• 2 minute read
If Xcode fails to automatically resolve frames in your crash reports of your Mac App Store app even though you have the original Xcode archive, this is how you can achieve it manually.
A macOS App with a File Provider Extension
• 6 minute read
To me it was not obvious on how to get started with the file provider API on macOS. I want to share how I successfully set up an Xcode project for development.
Seeing Through the Apple Signing Jungle
• 6 minute read
Signing apps can be an overwhelming topic when you don’t let Xcode handle it automatically. This is an attempt to summarize it in my own words like I would do to others in a casual setting who are not familiar with the topic yet.
Resource Strings Syntax Support for Sublime Text
• 2 minute read
I published a package which provides syntax definitions for resource string files in Sublime Text.
How to Build Unsigned macOS Apps
• 3 minute read
Sometimes you have to build a project for customers with IDs under their control but without their signing assets. This is how.
Manually Signing Embedded Swift Runtime
• 2 minute read
Sometimes the Swift runtime ends up in a built product as well and needs to be (re)signed just like the rest.