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Does someone publisher their Compose Multiplatform macOS app (DMG/PKG) directly to the Apple App Store for macOS?

I tried this some time ago and it didn't work as Apple did not expect the binary in TestFlight.

I wonder if it works now.

<https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/CMP-5125/Upload-to-Apple-App-Store-Universal-macOS-Binary-required-signing-issues> at least one person seems to have successfully published

I hope someone reaches out and shows me his app on the store, so I can rest assured that there is a way to make it work. :smile:

well <https://apps.apple.com/app/id1462943921> is linked in the issue and <@UCM8F1FL3> is in this slack

Yes, Hue Essentials is written in compose using JVM target

So you had no issue uploading it to testflight?
How did you generate the DMG/PKG file?
jpackage or Conveyor?

Last time I tried it complained about that a beta version of XCode was used... but it wasn't

Yes, I got the same error for beta version, but there is an easy fix. You can customise the infoPlist properties with `extraKeysRawXml`. You need to add some stuff. Create a brand new (empty) xcode project, build it, and check the generated Info.plist in the app package. Add these values to your compose app (these are normally missing).

In my case:
```// Workaround for external testing on TestFlight: <https://forum.unity.com/threads/testflight-external-build-says-app-is-using-beta-version-of-xcode.1214448/#post-7885261>
// Grab the values by building an Xcode project and inspecting the generated Info.plist in the app package
appendLine("  &lt;key&gt;BuildMachineOSBuild&lt;/key&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;string&gt;22C65&lt;/string&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;key&gt;DTCompiler&lt;/key&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;string&gt;com.apple.compilers.llvm.clang.1_0&lt;/string&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;key&gt;DTPlatformBuild&lt;/key&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;string&gt;14C18&lt;/string&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;key&gt;DTPlatformName&lt;/key&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;string&gt;macosx&lt;/string&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;key&gt;DTPlatformVersion&lt;/key&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;string&gt;13.1&lt;/string&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;key&gt;DTSDKBuild&lt;/key&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;string&gt;22C55&lt;/string&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;key&gt;DTSDKName&lt;/key&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;string&gt;macosx13.1&lt;/string&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;key&gt;DTXcode&lt;/key&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;string&gt;1420&lt;/string&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;key&gt;DTXcodeBuild&lt;/key&gt;")
appendLine("  &lt;string&gt;14C18&lt;/string&gt;")```

Keep in mind that these values may be outdated, so best to grab the latest again

Great, if you encounter an error let me know, I probably got it as well in the past :slightly_smiling_face:

I've also pushed my macos app in the app store. I wrote so learnings here: <https://www.marcogomiero.com/posts/2024/compose-macos-app-store/>