Exploring Plugin Development and New Testing Solutions for Mac OS

Guest

• Matt Massicotte - Twitter @mattie
  • Chime

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Open Source and Mac App

• Fear of dependencies
• What’s the benefit of doing it in open source
• What kind of open source licenses are there
• How can you avoid your code being copied outside the license
• For a larger company what benefits do they get by open sourcing part of their code base?
• How does open sourcing work with iOS/mac apps and the App Store

ExtensionKit

• What is ExtensionKit and how are you using it?
• How is it related to XPC
• How does something like this get installed and distributed 
• How does Sandboxing relate to this
• What are some good candidates for using ExtensionKit
• Have you looked at the work iOS, watchOS, or tvOS?

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Credits

Music from https://filmmusic.io
"Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)
License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

• (00:00) - How Open Sourcing an App Works?
• (14:30) - What is ExtensionKit?
• (17:30) - What is XPC?
• (19:00) - On Sandboxing
• (24:00) - On the Mac App Store
• (35:30) - Selling outside the App Store
• (38:45) - Where to use ExtensionKit

• Edward Sanchez
• Steven Lipton