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)

// for auto checking

// If you only care about new updates: subscribe the observable object
appUpdater.$downloadedAppBundle
    .sink { newBundle in
        if let newBundle {
            // do success things
            print("newBundle")
            appUpdater.install()
        }
    }
    .store(in: &cancellables)

// If you prefer callbacks instead
appUpdater.onDownloadSuccess = {
    // do success things
    print("download success")
    appUpdater.install()
}

// and want to get notified when download fails
appUpdater.onDownloadFail = { err in
    // do failing things
    print("download failed")
}

// Get notified when install succeeds
// but now you won't get a callback because the application will restart when the installation is successful
appUpdater.onInstallSuccess = {
    // do success things
    print("install success")
}

// Get notified when install fails
appUpdater.onInstallFail = { err in
    // do failing things
    print("install failed")
}

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")
            }
        }
    }
}

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AppUpdater

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