A notarization stuck “In Progress” for 60 hours. A returning developer’s app failing validation with error 90286 because Automatic Signing prefixed the bundle ID with a 15-year-old Developer ID instead of a Team ID. A Canadian VoIP startup rejected under guideline 3.1.1 with no clear test for whether prepaid calling credits count as “intermediary currency.”…
Back to the Mac: How to Notarize Disk Images for Distribution Outside the Mac App Store
Distributing macOS apps as ZIP archives has been quaint since Sierra. Today’s macOS packaging requirements mandates notarization, otherwise it would say that your app is suspicious. This often means distributing apps within disk images since this container format can be signed, notarized, and stapled.
Code Signing Failure due to Symlink Folders
You try to reduce the application’s size by sharing resources in framework bundles and creating symbolic links so that other frameworks can find and use those resources. However this fell at odds with code signing (and probably notarization). Here is how to share code and resources in frameworks the right way.