After we create our ‘.app’ folder and link it to all the necessary libraries (described in part 1) we are good to go for the installer and other features which will make our application look more professional.
When you have your application ready and you want to share your awesome product with the rest of the world, it is time to deploy – and the problems to begin. There are many ways to deploy an application but during the deployment process you are likely to face a lot of problems with dependencies and dynamically linked libraries.
Installing applications on Mac is a very simple task, all you have to do is drag and drop your application in a special folder named “Applications”, this tutorial will help you to create an installer for your application and the automation of adding to the dock. Adding to the dock is a post install process and requires you running a special script which adds your program to the dock.
By assigning the file type to a specific file we can determine what kind of information and data we expect to find inside that particular file. There are a lot of applications that handle multiple file types, so we want to use specific one that can be reserved only for the given application. By double clicking on the file the default app will be launched and the file loaded into it.