Episode #548

Starting a Mastodon Client for macOS from Scratch

Series: macOS Mastodon Client

26 minutes
Published on March 14, 2023

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Gui Rambo joins us to build a Mastodon Client for macOS using SwiftUI. In this episode we'll show the app we'll be building and then start from a blank slate where we will cover some topics about how a SwiftUI macOS app is set up, how we can define some build settings using xcconfig files, and how to deal with building for different Apple Developer teams.

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Finding your team identity

security find-identity -v -p codesigning

Our initial config

// Run the setup.sh script to generate the TeamID.xcconfig file.
#include "TeamID.xcconfig"

// You probably don't need to change anything below this line.
CODE_SIGN_STYLE = Automatic
CODE_SIGN_IDENTITY = Apple Development
BUNDLE_ID_SUFFIX = .$(DEVELOPMENT_TEAM)
PRODUCT_BUNDLE_IDENTIFIER = com.ficklebits.oliphaunt.App$(BUNDLE_ID_SUFFIX)

The setup script to generate a team id config file

#!/bin/bash

echo "What's your Apple Developer Team ID? (looks like: 1A2345BCDE)"
read TEAM_ID

if [ -z "$TEAM_ID" ]; then
    echo "You must enter a team ID"
    exit 1
fi

echo "DEVELOPMENT_TEAM = $TEAM_ID" > App/Config/TeamID.xcconfig

This episode uses Xcode 14.2, Swift 5.7.