A simple app-updater for macOS, checks your GitHub releases for a binary asset once a day and silently updates your app.
- We make no allowances for ensuring your app is not being actively used by the user at the time of update. PR welcome.
- Assets must be named:
\(reponame)-\(semanticVersion).ext. - Will not work if App is installed as a root user.
- Full semantic versioning support: we understand alpha/beta etc.
- We check the code-sign identity of the download matches the app that is running before doing the update. Thus if you don’t code-sign I’m not sure what would happen.
- We support zip files or tarballs.
Hey there, I’m Max Howell. I’m a prolific producer of open source software and
probably you already use some of it (for example, I created brew). I work
full-time on open source and it’s hard; currently I earn less than minimum
wage. Please help me continue my work, I appreciate it 🙏🏻
package.dependencies.append(.package(url: "https://github.com/mxcl/AppUpdater.git", from: "1.0.0"))Then:
import AppUpdater
@NSApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {
let updater = AppUpdater(owner: "your-github-username", repo: "your-github-repo-name")
//NOTE this is optional, the `AppUpdater` object schedules a daily update check itself
@IBAction func userRequestedAnExplicitUpdateCheck() {
updater.check().catch(policy: .allErrors) { error in
if error.isCancelled {
// promise is cancelled if we are already up-to-date
} else {
// show alert for this error
}
}
}
}