Oh god, the app store does not need more slop. If you can't be bothered to open XCode (which I agree is a dumpster fire, but), you shouldn't be bothered to submit an app that a person has to review and another person has to filter out of their search results.

I thought this would be a flutter post. Love flutter, ... , well I like flutter compared to Kotlin and Swift

This is how i am developing keptrecipes.com. Been a pleasure this way TBH.

> notarytool authenticates using a stored keychain profile that you create once, interactively — it prompts for an app-specific password, and there’s no way around the prompt.

You can use `--password <password>` (yeah, yeah, passwords on the command line are bad; I'm just challenging "there's no way around the prompt.")

Later (contradicting itself):

> The one step that stays interactive is notarytool store-credentials, and that’s a choice rather than a limitation: you could pass --password and script it, but that means putting an app-specific password in your shell history.

You can configure your shell to ignore history when needed.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6475524/how-do-i-prevent...

https://superuser.com/questions/352788/how-to-prevent-a-comm...

(And if it's in a script, it won't be in your history anyway.)

> These passwords go stale silently whenever you change your Apple ID password

You can use an ASC API key instead. This can be either a team key ("developer" access level) or an individual key.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/appstoreconnectapi...

small issue: xcodebuild will just randomly fail sometimes. And the solution is to... open and close Xcode. I wish this wasn't true, but it is.

Skimmed the article. Pretty close to my workflow using fastlane with tauri.

Useful sanity check!

I spent seven years as a dev on the Xcode team and this is pretty much my exact workflow these days.

> Without Ever Opening Xcode

"Next, open Xcode"

Tangentially, I despise Xcode and love the Expo ecosystem and all the lovely tooling that they have built. It is React Native but Expo honestly makes it so trivial to build stuff from the CLI without ever needing to open that abomination of an app. And with AI, I have built a lot of side project apps onto my iPhone, like a homelab app for monitoring my cameras with push notifications whenever someone is at the door, starting my irrigation and a whole lot more. Plus Tailscale of course. Kind of a crazy world that we live in now.

The thing is, in a perspective, who would need any apps at all? Users will get what they want from AI directly.