macOS app store + helper program

[abcd1]

Hello, i have application, that i want to submit to app store. This application uses another application as child-process. Where should i put my second application in the bandle?
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/General/SubmittingToMacAppStore/_index.html
I read here about helper application. But is it my case? Should it be full application bundle, stored inside the main application bundle in the Contents/Library/LoginItems directory? Or it can be just executable file in the /Resourse/ or /MacOS/ directory of my main bundle?

 

[wrldwzrd89]

Hello, i have application, that i want to submit to app store. This application uses another application as child-process. Where should i put my second application in the bandle?
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/General/SubmittingToMacAppStore/_index.html
I read here about helper application. But is it my case? Should it be full application bundle, stored inside the main application bundle in the Contents/Library/LoginItems directory? Or it can be just executable file in the /Resourse/ or /MacOS/ directory of my main bundle?

Normally, embedded helper applications go in Contents/Resources, regardless of whether they are raw executables or bundles.

 

[gnasher729]

Hello, i have application, that i want to submit to app store. This application uses another application as child-process. Where should i put my second application in the bandle?
http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#releasenotes/General/SubmittingToMacAppStore/_index.html
I read here about helper application. But is it my case? Should it be full application bundle, stored inside the main application bundle in the Contents/Library/LoginItems directory? Or it can be just executable file in the /Resourse/ or /MacOS/ directory of my main bundle?

You are mentioning "LoginItems". If you want to add to the user's LoginItems directory, forget it.

 

[kainjow]

I read here about helper application. But is it my case? Should it be full application bundle, stored inside the main application bundle in the Contents/Library/LoginItems directory?

AFAIK, you can only use the SMLoginItemSetEnabled() API to install a login item if your app is going to be sandboxed, and that function requires it to be in the Contents/Library/LoginItems folder in your .app.

See /System/Library/Frameworks/ServiceManagement.framework/Versions/A/Headers/SMLoginItem.h

Normally, embedded helper applications go in Contents/Resources, regardless of whether they are raw executables or bundles.

Code signing + MAS submission gets fussy if you do this, so if you've got a non-login item app it should go outside of Contents/Resources - I've been using Contents/Helpers.

 

[abcd1]

wrldwzrd89, gnasher729, kainjow, thanks for your answers, i'll put my helpers to /contents/helpers

 

[abcd1]

I'm sorry, but i'm here again...
I put helper (it is bundle) to /contents/helpers.
and productbuild says to me:
"No package identifier specified and not exactly one component to derive it from"
If i remove helpers, productbuild makes pkg succesfully.

productbuild --component "/users/me/myapp.app" /Applications --sign "3rd Party Mac Developer Installer" "/users/me/myapp.pkg"