platformize-app-ios

A good starting point for packaging native iOS apps.

For command-line tools, see platformize-bin-ios.

Included

• SKILL.md: app and daemon setup, packaging, third-party license collection, and release guidance.
• template/: a one-time CHECKLIST.md to finish before writing code, configuration, packaging files, a native depiction, a Pages workflow that loads release notes from GitHub, an fd-based executable watcher for updates and removal, a quiet exit, the roothide root check, and a skeleton that builds as it is: a two-target Xcode project, an app, and an on-demand daemon that authenticates the app and answers its hello over XPC.
• scripts/: new-app.py, which scaffolds a new app repo, the checklist gate for make check, deployment compatibility and SF Symbol checks, an accessibility gate that refuses a label UIKit will never read, a gate that refuses a string key Xcode marked stale, a gate that refuses app entitlements missing the GPU list, a renderer that turns an Icon Composer icon into a three-JPEG icon set (megabytes smaller), plus localization cleanup that keeps a translation it cannot account for.

Get Started

Read SKILL.md, pick the daemon shape, then scaffold the repo in one run:

scripts/new-app.py ../MyApp --name MyApp --from Inspector --description "…"

It copies the template, fills the placeholders, takes Scripts/, Makefile and the CI/Release pair from the sibling checkouts, renames them, wires the checklist gate, and prints what is still open. Nothing of it is copied into the new repo. Then work through CHECKLIST.md: make check refuses to run until every box is ticked.

Use the largest banner from your README for the depiction and write its Details copy for your app. Package installation and removal use uikittools triggers for app registration. Follow the release-workflow setup in the skill.

Run python3 -m unittest discover -s tests -v to validate the rendered templates.

Run scripts/audit-ios-floor.sh to check deployment compatibility before release.

License

MIT. See LICENSE.