AppUpdater

A simple app-updater for macOS, checks your GitHub releases for a binary asset and silently updates your app.

Caveats

• 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. See semantics Version
• Will not work if App is installed as a root user.

Features

• 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.

Usage

package.dependencies.append(.package(url: "https://github.com/s1ntoneli/AppUpdater.git", from: "0.1.1"))

Then:

// init
var appUpdater = AppUpdater(owner: "s1ntoneli", repo: "AppUpdater", releasePrefix: "AppUpdaterExample", interval: 3 * 60 * 60)

// check and auto download
appUpdater.check()
appUpdater.check { // success } fail: { err in // failed }

// install
appUpdater.install()
appUpdater.install { // success } fail: { err in // failed }
appUpdater.install(appBundle)

Demo:

struct ContentView: View {
    @EnvironmentObject var appUpdater: AppUpdater
    
    var body: some View {
        VStack {
            if let appBundle = appUpdater.downloadedAppBundle {
                HStack {
                    Text("New Version Available")
                    Button {
                        appUpdater.install(appBundle)
                    } label: {
                        Text("Update Now")
                    }.buttonStyle(.borderedProminent)
                }
            } else {
                Text("No New Version")
            }
            
            Button {
                appUpdater.check()
            } label: {
                Text("Check Update")
            }
        }
    }
}

Alternatives

• Sparkle
• Squirrel

References

• AppUpdater

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