Documentation how to release macOS catalyst apps on App Store

[rstolpe]

Description

The iOS documentation are great and I got it working right away, but the documentation for mac catalyst applications release as signed on Apple Store are non existing and I don't get it to work.
please provide proper documentation

Public API Changes

none

Intended Use-Case

All users

[mattleibow]

@davidbritch are we missing mac catalyst docs?

[davidbritch]

@mattleibow Yes.

[mattleibow]

Should we move this to the docs repo or do we have an issue already?

[rstolpe]

@mattleibow @davidbritch I got some things figured out that was missing in the info.plits and Entitlements.
I have not successed to publish it as I get the following error now:

Asset validation failed (90259)
Bad Bundle Executable. You must include a valid CFBundleExecutable key in your bundle's information property list file. (ID: a630ade7-1660-45f4-b69b-xxxx)

I have added it in the info.plits but no success with that either.
Same code works to publish to iOS.

Also when you compile it as arm-64 it won't start or it do start but it closes / crashes.

You can't even create arm-x64 when you debug it only works with x64.

Same with new project.

[rstolpe]

@mattleibow @davidbritch where is the doc repo located?
I got this figured out now after working around a bunch of bugs etc.

Have everything written in a guide ready to be uploaded tomorrow.

[rstolpe]

Uploaded the guide in a Feature request.
dotnet/docs-maui#1187

If you have any Q just ask in that issue and I'll answer it.

[ghost]

We've moved this issue to the Backlog milestone. This means that it is not going to be worked on for the coming release. We will reassess the backlog following the current release and consider this item at that time. To learn more about our issue management process and to have better expectation regarding different types of issues you can read our Triage Process.

[cdavidyoung]

So I have worked through dotnet/docs-maui#1187 but have yet to get it to work. Even if I get it to work my question is, why is this so much harder and convoluted than iOS deployment to the App Store? With the latest VS2022 it seems to have gotten even easier because I was able to upload my iOS app to the App Store within VS. However, the same app for Maccatalyst is stuck in this provisioning purgatory. From the App Store Connect perspective is there really much difference between submitting Maccatalyst and iOS?

[jfversluis]

This is currently being worked on and being tracked in multiple issues that can be found here: https://github.com/dotnet/docs-maui/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+mac+catalyst