Moodle Desktop Electron version and app rejected from Mac AppStore due to private APIs

Moodle Desktop Electron version and app rejected from Mac AppStore due to private APIs

by Brian Y -
Number of replies: 4

Using Electron version 4.2.5, when submitted to the Mac App Store, Apple rejects with the following private APIs.

Your app uses or references the following non-public APIs:
• Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Electron Framework/NSURLFileTypeMappings
• Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Electron Framework/NSNextStepFrame
• Contents/Frameworks/Electron Framework.framework/Versions/A/Electron Framework/NSThemeFrame

The only customizations done on my end are colors and logos.

If I use a newer version of Electron, then there are aspects of the app (ie camera) do not seem to work.

Has anyone faced this challenge?

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Re: Moodle Desktop Electron version and app rejected from Mac AppStore due to private APIs

by Dani Palou -
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Hi Brian,

so far we've been able to publish the Mac app. Maybe they only checck that for new apps.

We have an open issue (MOBILE-3543) to upgrade the Electron version, but we don't have a timeline about when will it be done.

Cheers,
Dani
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Re: Moodle Desktop Electron version and app rejected from Mac AppStore due to private APIs

by Brian Y -
This is unfortunate.

I cannot get Apple to approve it using Electron 4 due to private apis being used and if I upgrade to a newer version of Electron, I can't get the camera to work.
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Re: Moodle Desktop Electron version and app rejected from Mac AppStore due to private APIs

by Dani Palou -
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Hi Brian,

you can fix the camera with this change:

https://github.com/moodlehq/moodleapp/commit/d1b1c68e0e82853106e73d4a4442e1bc9a1517ce

It's currently in integration branch, it will be moved to master branch once version 3.9.3 is released.

Please notice that the Moodle Desktop app will be discontinued:

https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=413350

Cheers,
Dani
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Re: Moodle Desktop Electron version and app rejected from Mac AppStore due to private APIs

by Brian Y -

Thank you Dani, I appreciate this information.

In light of this, we will likely stop devoting energy to the desktop versions.

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