#Swift for mac install
#Swift for mac code

Somewhere in your main application you have to register your launcher application's identifier. This is a background app after all, so we don't need these stupid things to lay around. Link the amework to your main application and double check that the launcher app is embedded into your main application.ДЇrom the LauncherApplication's storyboard file delete your window and your view controller, also you can remove the ViewController.swift file from this target. The destination should be wrapper and the subpath should be Contents/Library/LoginItems. This will set your application as a background app, we don't really need user interface for a launcher tool, right?ДЄdd a new copy file build phase to your main application target to copy your launcher application into the bundle.

#Swift for mac install

For the LauncherApplication target in the build settings set skip install to yes.ДЇor the launcher app add a new entry to the ist file: Application is background only with the value: yes.

#Swift for mac code

Enable sandbox and code signing for both targets (main and launcher apps) under the Signing & Capabilities tab. Name this new target for example LauncherApplication. Sandboxing is a crucial part of the process, so make sure that you follow every instruction carefully.Д¬reate a new target inside your current project. You also have to code sign your application with your Developer ID, otherwise it won't start after you log in to macOS. To do this you will have to create a new launcher application which will be launched later by your main application. You can register a bundle identifier embedded into your main application to get auto-launched by the system. With that function you can register an application bundle identifier to auto start when the user logs in, but you can not register your own app identifier. Now that we have the main application target, there is this nice little function available called SMLoginItemSetEnabled.

Name it for example MainApplication, use storyboards and of course select Swift as the default language, we don't need tests for this project at all. Let's start this tutorial by creating a new Xcode project with a macOS app template.