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I'm working on adding a finder sync extension to an app. The app is not sandboxed. In essence, the app is operating on files located in folders that the user chooses, the app stores the status information in an extended attribute for each file. The extension needs to monitor these folders and and assign a badge according to the state indicated in the extended attribute. Everything is working fine, I can get the app and extension to communicate which folders to watch, I can manipulate the files with the app, setting the extended attributes and the extension is getting requestBadgeIdentifierForURL called. However, attempting to read the the extended attribute using getxattr() is blocked by the sandbox. I tried creating an app group and to store the folder urls as security scoped bookmarks in the group but this fails when trying to resolve the bookmark. In retrospect this makes sense since the security scoped bookmark is supposed to be used for accessing the same url by the same app in the same sandbox which is not the case when dealing with an un-sandboxed app and a sandboxed Finder Find Extension. I read somewhere (here: https://developer.apple.com/forums/thread/66259?page=2) from someone, quoting DTS on a similar issue that he can either communicate to the main app process to get the information or use document scoped security scoped bookmarks but I'm having trouble finding information about document scoped bookmarks and I'm not sure if it makes sense either. Thanks in advance Eyal

I'm working on adding multiple window support to my app. My app is a document based app, with one view controller serving as the document browser (document selector) and a second view controller  for editing the document (document controller). The document selector is the root view controller. Normally, when the user taps a document icon in the selector, my app presents the document controler over the selector. When restoring the scene (when it has an open document)  I want to do the same (so to have the document selector underneath and on top of it show the document editor) but without showing the user document opening animations and so on. Problem is, if I try to do all the document opening before the window is showing I'm getting the follwoing error: [Presentation] Attempt to present <ERDocumentController: 0x7fd859020400> on <ERDocumentSelector: 0x7fd857c0cd60> (from <ERDocumentSelector: 0x7fd857c0cd60>) whose view is not in the window hierarchy. And if I do the document opening after showing the window, I see the animation (and even if I remove the animation, I still see the document selector for a little bit). Is there a way to setup this hierarchy before showing the window?

At the moment I'm distributing apps both via a DMG downloaded from our website as well as a zip file downloaded by the sparkle framework as an automatic update. My build script invokes xcodebuild to build the app and then does all the needed work to take the resulting app binary and packge it inside a DMG as well as a zip file for the sparkle updater.I would like to submit the app only once, (since it is the same binary) to the notary service, is that supported?Can I take the app binary, get it notarized and then staple the dmg and zip using the same ticket or do I have to have different tickets for the dmg vs the zip.In other words, when I submit a dmg, does the dmg gets notarized or is it the app inside that gets notarized? Also, when I staple a DMG, does this modify the app inside the dmg or is the staple attached to the dmg?

Hi,I want to make my app available for use with automation in "Shortcuts". More specifically, I would like to make available an action that receives files as input in the Shortcuts app. I know that Adobe are offering such an action with lightroom ("import to lightroom") so I guess this is available to third party developers but I'm unable to figure out how to make my application's action available there too.I've looked into Siri Kit and and Siri Shortcuts but the discussion there is concentrated around using Siri to invoke shortcuts, getting recommended etc. which is not relevant (I think) to what I'm trying to do. I don't understand how the Shortcuts app fits into that and I feel as there are two rather unrelated parts to this technology apple is marketing under "Siri Shortcuts" (invoking stuff via siri and automation) but I can only find documentation relevant to the voice stuff.To sum up, I would appreciate any input regarding the following three questions1. Where can I learn more about the shortcuts app, how to integrate with it and so on2. How do I make my action available in the shortcuts app (I'm not sure that the term, for the entities in the shortcuts app)3. How do I receive file input in that contextThanks!