What is this?

An automated way to create and upload a new release of your MacOS app to Github Releases, as well as an example of how to integrate the Sparkle auto update framework into your app.

Why did I make this?

I did not want to open Xcode to archive and create a .app file of my MacOS application. I preferred a CLI option to do this.

Commands like agvtool do not work on newer versions of Xcode like Xcode 14.

Instead of using these commands, you can just directly edit the CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION in the project.pbxproj file using the sed command.

These shell scripts automate the whole process of archiving an app, creating a dmg, generating the Sparkle appcast.xml file, and uploading to Github Releases.

The app checks for updates from these Github Releases using Sparkle.

How to run it?

Edit the config variables in the shellconfig.sh file.

To generate a new release of your app and upload to github, run ./deploy_release.sh

Guides that helped me

https://github.com/matteospada/Sparkle-test

https://medium.com/@matteospada.m/how-to-integrate-the-sparkle-framework-into-a-swiftui-app-for-macos-98ca029f83f7

Dependencies: https://github.com/sparkle-project/Sparkle

(shell scripts deps) create-dmg - https://github.com/create-dmg/create-dmg