MacOS Deployment to the Mac App Store

[HEIC-to-JPEG-Dev]

I'm looking at how to publish an App to the Mac App Store and the first sentance on the deployment guide states that "some extra legwork has to be done after your application has gone through the publishing process" - and no-where in the documentation is "publishing process" mentioned.

Is that something basic I'm miss-reading ? or is there some mysterious "process" you have to be in a club to know about.

[BAndysc]

Isn't it just dotnet publish? :) On Linux and Windows dotnet publish is pretty much enough to release the app, but it's not the case on macOS

Manual

First, publish your application (dotnet publish documentation):

dotnet publish -r osx-x64 --configuration Release -p:UseAppHost=true

[HEIC-to-JPEG-Dev]

The fact that you don’t know, says everything about the documentation. Documentation should be concise, detail the points, not use TLA’s until expanded, etc. maybe it is, maybe not, who knows? And why do I need the command line?

[timunie]

@HEIC-to-JPEG-Dev contribution to the docs are very welcome. That macos is harder to publish ia no Avalonia only issue btw.

[HEIC-to-JPEG-Dev]

I’d love to. But at the moment, I have no idea what to do. Once I figure it out, I’ll give my updates

[workgroupengineering]

https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/deployment/macOS

[HEIC-to-JPEG-Dev]

That points to the exact problem I’m talking about

[MikeCodesDotNET]

The document is a little long, but it does have everything you need. If you go to the Manual section, it includes information on how to publish.

[HEIC-to-JPEG-Dev]

I gave up. I also checked the MAUI documentation, but publishing doing all that manual work is too much hassle. It's easy in xcode so I'll just use that. Thanks for the help though. I'd come back to it if there was a wizard to help, even if the wizard was "click here to access site
URL and do this, download file to me and we move on" and "let me create the info.plist file for you".

[HEIC-to-JPEG-Dev]

Okay, I've been giving it another try. It's wildly out of date.

I'm at the "Getting Certificates" https://docs.avaloniaui.net/docs/deployment/macOS#getting-certificates

I'll be happy to help updating if I eventually get it working, but...

"go to Xcode > Preferences > Account > Manage Certificates..." should be "go to Xcode > Settings> Accounts > Manage Certificates..."

So next is to add "Apple Distribution" certificate - yep, that works
Next is add "3rd Party Mac Developer Installer" - that is not an options, those are...

Which one should I create ?

[HEIC-to-JPEG-Dev]

I'm also assuming this needs to be imported into the System Keychain, not the iCloud Keychain ?