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Open and Extensible with Matt Massicotte

Podcast |: Empower Apps
Publisher |: Leo Dion, Principal CEO and Swift Developer at BrightDigit
Media Type |: audio
Podknife tags |: Apple,; Business,; Interview,; Technology
Categories Via RSS |: Business,; Technology
Publication Date |: Sep 25, 2022
Episode Duration |: 00:41:14

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Matt Massicotte - Twitter @mattie
- Chime

Youtube Video: https://youtu.be/dc7x04Ao2xU

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Music from https://filmmusic.io "Blippy Trance" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com)License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

(00:00) - How Open Sourcing an App Works?
(14:30) - What is ExtensionKit?
(17:30) - What is XPC?
(19:00) - On Sandboxing
(24:00) - On the Mac App Store
(35:30) - Selling outside the App Store
(38:45) - Where to use ExtensionKit

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Matt Massicotte comes on the program to talk about the development of his app Chime and how he's using the new framework ExtensionKit along with Open-Source to be an extensible macOS app.