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IN NO EVENT SHALL THE 18 | AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER 19 | LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, 20 | OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE 21 | SOFTWARE. 22 | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- /README.md: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 | [![A 3.5 inch floppy disk titled "Macintosh Applications"](./assets/macintosh-applications-diskette.jpg)](./assets/macintosh-applications-diskette.jpg) 2 | 3 | # macOS Developer Resources 4 | 5 | Resources useful in learning about development native macOS apps. 6 | 7 | ## Contributing 8 | 9 | If you have content to add, or notice an error, please open a pull request or issue with your changes. I'd very much like for this to be a collaborative source of information. 10 | 11 | ## Table of Contents 12 | 13 | - [Topics](#topics) 14 | - [Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment](#continuous-integration-continuous-deployment) 15 | - [Design](#design) 16 | - [Code Signing](#code-signing) 17 | - [Hardened Runtime](#hardened-runtime) 18 | - [Logging](#logging) 19 | - [Responder Chain & Key View Loop](#responder-chain--key-view-loop) 20 | - [Books](#books) 21 | - [Videos](#videos) 22 | - [Conferences](#conferences) 23 | - [Blogroll](#blogroll) 24 | - [Chat Servers](#chat-servers) 25 | - [Tweeters](#tweeters) 26 | - [Other Resources](#other-resources) 27 | - [About](#about) 28 | 29 | --- 30 | 31 | ## Topics 32 | 33 | ### Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment 34 | 35 | - [Xcode Server and Continuous Integration Guide: About Continuous Integration in Xcode](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/IDEs/Conceptual/xcode_guide-continuous_integration/) 36 | - [Xcode Server API Reference](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Xcode/Conceptual/XcodeServerAPIReference/index.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40016472) 37 | 38 | --- 39 | 40 | ### Design 41 | 42 | - [macOS - Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)](https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/overview/themes/) 43 | - [Apple Design Resources](https://developer.apple.com/design/resources/) 44 | - [Human Interface Guidelines Extras](https://github.com/sindresorhus/human-interface-guidelines-extras) by [Sindre Sorhus](https://sindresorhus.com) 45 | - [Design and implement macOS document icons](https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=5i6jlf4d) 46 | 47 | #### Menu Bar Icons 48 | 49 | Some tweets from [Jeff Nadeau](https://twitter.com/jnadeau) about menu bar icon sizing and design: 50 | 51 | > You get 22pt of height (and wouldn’t want to extend into the margins except for fine details) so that seems fine. 52 | In Big Sur a symbol image is ideal. The size, weight, and baseline are chosen to be consistent across menu extras, and it works w/ the “bigger menu text” AX pref 53 | > 54 | > One technique is to design within a 22pt bounding box so you can pick the exact vertical bearing of your icon within the whitespace. 55 | (We did this for the original Touch Bar icons. We allow “full bleed” content there, so the icons were uniformly produced in a 30pt tall canvas.) 56 | > 57 | > — Jeff Nadeau \[[tweet 1](https://twitter.com/jnadeau/status/1346714319174606849)] \[[tweet 2](https://twitter.com/jnadeau/status/1346711906636087296)] 58 | 59 | --- 60 | 61 | ### Code Signing 62 | 63 | Code signing is one of the most confusing and complex parts of developing for Apple platforms. Here are a few helpful guides to help make sense of the process. 64 | 65 | - [Code Signing for macOS](https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Code_Signing_for_macOS) 66 | - [Notarization for macOS 10.14.5+](https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Notarization_for_macOS_10.14.5%2B) 67 | - [Apple Developer Certificates](https://wiki.lazarus.freepascal.org/Apple_Developer_Certificates) - A great reference of all the different types of certificates involved in developing for Apple platforms. 68 | 69 | --- 70 | 71 | ### Hardened Runtime 72 | 73 | - [Hardened Runtime Entitlements](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/hardened_runtime_entitlements) 74 | 75 | --- 76 | 77 | ### Logging 78 | 79 | - [Generating Log Messages from Your Code](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/os/logging/generating_log_messages_from_your_code) 80 | 81 | #### Making Logs Show in Console.app Correctly 82 | 83 | In order for dynamic log messages to show up in Console.app, you must use the `{public}` modifier on the value 84 | 85 | ```swift 86 | let variableToInsert = "hello" 87 | 88 | os_log(.debug, "message with variable: %@", variableToInsert) // prints: "message with variable: " 89 | os_log(.debug, "message with variable: %{public}@", variableToInsert) // prints: "message with variable: hello" 90 | ``` 91 | 92 | --- 93 | 94 | ### Responder Chain & Key View Loop 95 | 96 | - [NSResponder - AppKit](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appkit/nsresponder) 97 | - [Event Architecture - Cocoa Event Handling Guide](https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/EventOverview/EventArchitecture/EventArchitecture.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/10000060i-CH3-SW2) 98 | - [Debugging the Responder Chain | mjtsai.com](https://mjtsai.com/blog/2019/07/30/debugging-the-responder-chain/) 99 | 100 | --- 101 | 102 | ## Books 103 | 104 | - [Cocoa Programming for OS X](https://www.amazon.com/Cocoa-Programming-OS-Ranch-Guides/dp/0134076958) - Somewhat out of date, but filled with lots of essential Mac programming information, with examples in Swift 105 | - [Hacking With macOS](https://www.hackingwithswift.com/store/hacking-with-macos) - From Paul Hudson. Up to date with SwiftUI and his books recieve lifetime updates. 106 | 107 | --- 108 | 109 | ## Videos 110 | 111 | - [AppleProgramming](https://www.youtube.com/c/AppleProgramming) - by [Lucas Derraugh](https://derraugh.com) 112 | 113 | --- 114 | 115 | ## Blogroll 116 | 117 | Sites with high quality development content, that is sometimes or always focused on the Mac: 118 | 119 | - [Bitsplitting](https://bitsplitting.org) by Daniel Jalkut 120 | - [chris.eidhoff.nl](http://chris.eidhof.nl) by Chris Eidhof 121 | - [Cocoa with Love](https://www.cocoawithlove.com) by Matt Gallegher 122 | - [Hacking with Swift](https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles) by Paul Hudson 123 | - [inessential](https://inessential.com) by Brent Simmons 124 | - [Lapcat Software](http://lapcatsoftware.com/articles/index.html) by Jeff Johnson 125 | - [LostMoa](https://lostmoa.com/blog/) by Matthaus Woolard 126 | - [mjtsai.com](https://mjtsai.com/blog/) by Michael Tsai 127 | - [NSHipster](https://nshipster.com) by Mattt 128 | - [oleb.net](https://oleb.net/blog/) by Ole Begemann 129 | - [Rambo.codes](https://rambo.codes) by Gui Rambo 130 | - [Swift by Sundell](https://www.swiftbysundell.com) by John Sundell 131 | - [TrozWare](https://troz.net) by Sarah Reichelt 132 | - [tyler.io](https://tyler.io) by Tyler Hall 133 | - [User Your Loaf](https://useyourloaf.com/blog/) by Keith Harrison 134 | 135 | ## Chat Servers 136 | 137 | Online communities that are focused on macOS app development: 138 | 139 | - [AppKit Abusers (Slack)](https://join.slack.com/t/appkit-abusers/shared_invite/zt-1q2i2n9t0-MgwJEmyl6LS17udv7s9V1w) 140 | - [Core Intuition (Slack)](http://chat.coreint.org) 141 | 142 | ## Tweeters 143 | 144 | People on Twitter who (at least sometimes) tweet about macOS development: 145 | 146 | - [@\_inside](https://twitter.com/_inside) 147 | - [@brentsimmons](https://twitter.com/brentsimmons) 148 | - [@chriseidhof](https://twitter.com/chriseidhof) 149 | - [@cocoawithlove](https://twitter.com/cocoawithlove) 150 | - [@danielpunkass](https://twitter.com/danielpunkass) 151 | - [@jnadeau](https://twitter.com/jnadeau) 152 | - [@johnsundell](https://twitter.com/johnsundell) 153 | - [@kharrison](https://twitter.com/kharrison) 154 | - [@krzyzanowskim](https://twitter.com/krzyzanowskim) 155 | - [@lapcatsoftware](https://twitter.com/lapcatsoftware) 156 | - [@macsome](https://twitter.com/macsome) 157 | - [@mattt](https://twitter.com/mattt) 158 | - [@mjtsai](https://twitter.com/mjtsai) 159 | - [@mxcl](https://twitter.com/mxcl) 160 | - [@olebegemann](https://twitter.com/olebegemann) 161 | - [@patrickwardle](https://twitter.com/patrickwardle) 162 | - [@rydermackay](https://twitter.com/rydermackay) 163 | - [@sindresorhus](https://twitter.com/sindresorhus) 164 | - [@twostraws](https://twitter.com/twostraws) 165 | - [@UINT_MIN](https://twitter.com/UINT_MIN) 166 | 167 | ## Other Resources 168 | 169 | - [lists.apple.com Mailing Lists](https://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo) - old school mailing lists, but sometimes the only source of good information 170 | - [Open Source Mac Apps](https://github.com/serhii-londar/open-source-mac-os-apps) - a list of open source Mac applications on GitHub for your perusal 171 | - [TIL | macOS](https://jessesquires.github.io/TIL/macos/) by [Jesse Squires](https://www.jessesquires.com) - Another great list of macOS development resources 172 | 173 | ## About 174 | 175 | This document is maintained by me, [Isaac Halvorson](https://hisaac.net). I started this after making the jump from iOS development to macOS development, and noticing a distinct lack of good content pertaining specifically to developing for the Mac platform. After some chatter recently about this on Twitter, I figured it was high time someone started to catalog these things somewhere. 176 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------