Become an apple "identified developer"

[Robert Leach]

USE CASE: WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?

Download, install, & run the app

STEPS TO REPRODUCE AN ISSUE (OR TRIGGER A NEW FEATURE)

1. Open System Preferences (on a mac)
2. Click Security & Privacy
3. If "Allow apps downloaded from" is not "Anywhere", select one of the other 2 options
4. Download the dmg
5. Drag the TreeView3.app file to /Applications
6. Double-click the app (for the first time)

CURRENT BEHAVIOR

An error about the downloaded app not being from an apple identified develoepr pops up:

EXPECTED BEHAVIOR

Opens without error

DEVELOPERS ONLY SECTION

SUGGESTED CHANGE (Pseudocode optional)

Contact apple about being an identified developer (identified as the Princeton Bioinformatics group? or a series of our individual developers or as the treeview dev team?)

FILES AFFECTED (where the changes will be implemented) - developers only

unknown - perhaps the gradle build script

LEVEL OF EFFORT - developers only

minor

COMMENTS

[Robert Leach]

Working on this now.

[Robert Leach]

I looked into (at least part of) what needs to be done in gradle. The following needs to be added to macAppBundle:

    certIdentity = "Acme cert"
    bundleExecutable = "${->project.name}"

And then after macAppBundle, you should add:

createDmg.dependsOn(codeSign)

Reference: https://github.com/crotwell/gradle-macappbundle/issues/6

[Robert Leach]

Also, I'm in contact with PU people about the university's apple developer identity needed to obtain the certification identity.

Notable details:

PU's identity according to apple's developer site is:

TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, THE
1 NASSAU HALL
PRINCETON NJ US

and our DUNS number is:

00-248-4665

[Robert Leach]

Matt Hood recently took ownership of Princeton's Apple Developer account. he invited me to the apple developer program, which should mean I should be able to generate my own code signing certificates. I'll dig into this later this week or next.

[Robert Leach]

I learned that "bundleExecutable" is only if you want a different app name from what appName is set to.

[Robert Leach]

I finally got this figured out. I will save a file in the documentation to describe how to do it. Also note that the certificate for the app expires on June 23, 2023.

[Robert Leach]

Merged to master.