Once we install our JVM with Java 7, we must go to one of the jdk or jre installations. We need Java 7 (in our OSX system, we find only Java 6 as preinstalled). Given those ingredients, we can start creating our app. Mac Developer account: essential to sign the app.It doesn’t have to be Oracle’s Java Virtual Machine, but it’s the one we used.
JRE or JDK: you need Java in your computer. You have to download it, compile and pack it with ant. App Bundler:, that’s going to convert our jar to app. This is an essential requirement to publish in the Mac Store and it has a different signature than Gatekeeper.īefore all of this, as you have imagined, it’s necessary to convert our jar in an app, whatever our commercial goal in OSX is. On the other hand, Sandbox is a tool that encapsulates you app and check it: if it’s harmful, then Sandbox aparts it from the rest of the operative system. User can disable Gatekeeper, but we consider that’s fair to demonstrate you’re a valid partner of Apple and you app is trustworthy. It’s conceived for those apps that come from another stores or websites not related to the App Store. Gatekeeper prevents third party apps to be run in the system without Apple’s signature and verification. Gatekeeper: to publish outside the store. In Jemchicomac, we used two process for this: This was a mandatory step to publish our game inside and outside OSX App Store. There is little information and very few tools to do it in fact, only one tool available to pack a jar file into an app. 
One of the most difficult tasks while developing Crazy Belts has been setting the game to OSX. We’re not going to explain how to do certain things, because the article would be too long. Note: we recommend to have a proper knowledge of OSX and Java.
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