AppUpdater

A simple app-updater for macOS, checks your GitHub releases for a binary asset once a day 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.
• 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.

Support mxcl

Hey there, I’m Max Howell. I’m a prolific producer of open source software and probably you already use some of it (for example, I created brew). I work full-time on open source and it’s hard; currently I earn less than minimum wage. Please help me continue my work, I appreciate it 🙏🏻

Other ways to say thanks.

Usage

package.dependencies.append(.package(url: "https://github.com/mxcl/AppUpdater.git", from: "1.0.0"))

Then:

import AppUpdater

@NSApplicationMain
class AppDelegate: NSObject, NSApplicationDelegate {
    
    let updater = AppUpdater(owner: "your-github-username", repo: "your-github-repo-name")

    //NOTE this is optional, the `AppUpdater` object schedules a daily update check itself    
    @IBAction func userRequestedAnExplicitUpdateCheck() {
        updater.check().catch(policy: .allErrors) { error in
            if error.isCancelled {
                // promise is cancelled if we are already up-to-date
            } else {
                // show alert for this error
            }
        }
    }
}

Alternatives

• Sparkle
• Squirrel