Homebrew tap for Round Robin

Casks published by Round Robin Solutions.

Bridgey by Round Robin

Bridgey by Round Robin connects an Android phone and a Mac over your own Wi-Fi. This cask installs the Mac app.

brew install --cask round-robin-solutions/tap/bridgey-rr

That taps this repository and installs Bridgey by Round Robin.app into /Applications. The app needs macOS 13 (Ventura) or later, and a current Homebrew (the cask uses postflight_steps).

Homebrew 6 and later only load casks from non-official taps you trust. Installing the fully qualified name above trusts just this one cask. To install by short name instead, run brew tap round-robin-solutions/tap and brew trust --cask round-robin-solutions/tap/bridgey-rr first.

To remove it:

brew uninstall --cask bridgey-rr          # keep settings and paired devices
brew uninstall --cask --zap bridgey-rr    # also delete them

How updates work

The app updates itself. In-app updates use Sparkle with an EdDSA signature check, on the channel you choose in Settings (Stable, Beta or Nightly), so the cask declares auto_updates true. Plain brew upgrade skips the cask for that reason; use brew upgrade --cask --greedy bridgey-rr if you prefer Homebrew to do it.

The cask itself is pinned to one release (a version and a sha256). It is updated after each release by scripts/rr/bump-cask.py in the Bridgey repository, so a fresh brew install gets a recent build, and the app then keeps itself current.

Which release the cask points at

The cask points at the newest Stable release. No Stable release exists yet, so for now it points at the newest beta (currently 0.6.0-rr.1-beta.13). This note goes away when the first Stable release is out. Beta releases are pinned only when the release is made with --bump-cask.

Ad-hoc signing and the quarantine flag

The Mac app is ad-hoc signed: Round Robin has no Apple Developer membership yet, so it is not notarised. A quarantined copy would be stopped by Gatekeeper on first launch. The cask therefore runs xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine on the installed app in its postflight step. That removes only the download flag from this one app. The download is still checked against the sha256 in the cask. If you would rather keep Gatekeeper's prompt, install the DMG by hand from the releases page, then right-click the app and choose Open.

Checks

brew style round-robin-solutions/tap is clean. brew audit --cask --online reports only that the pinned version is a GitHub pre-release, which goes away with the first Stable release. With --new it also reports that the repository is a fork and that the ad-hoc signature does not meet Gatekeeper's requirements; both are expected for this app.

What zap removes

~/Library/Application Support/in.roundrobin.bridgey, ~/Library/Caches/in.roundrobin.bridgey, ~/Library/Preferences/in.roundrobin.bridgey.plist, and the app's HTTP storage, WebKit and saved window state.

Licence

The cask files are MIT licensed, like Bridgey.