{"id":11580,"date":"2015-06-25T16:15:46","date_gmt":"2015-06-25T20:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=11580"},"modified":"2015-07-09T13:33:10","modified_gmt":"2015-07-09T17:33:10","slug":"map-kit-outside-of-the-mac-app-store","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/25\/map-kit-outside-of-the-mac-app-store\/","title":{"rendered":"Map Kit Outside of the Mac App Store"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/prerelease\/mac\/releasenotes\/General\/rn-osx-10.11\/index.html#\/\/apple_ref\/doc\/uid\/TP40016209\">OS X El Capitan Developer Beta 2 Release Notes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/prerelease\/mac\/releasenotes\/General\/rn-osx-10.11\/index.html#\/\/apple_ref\/doc\/uid\/TP40016209\"><p>MapKit APIs can now be used by developers in apps that are distributed outside of the App Store.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosyna\/status\/613454770465046528\">Rosyna<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosyna\/status\/613577019620589568\">Keller<\/a>, who asks:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rosyna\/status\/613577019620589568\"><p>Which <em>public<\/em> OS X APIs are still restricted to Mac App Store apps? GameKit, iCloud\/CloudKit, Remote Push Notifications, what else?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good news, although it won&rsquo;t help those deploying on earlier versions of Mac OS X. I hope that apps like Fantastical and Lightroom will continue to offer integrated Google Maps, which I find to be more accurate and easier to read.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2015-06-25): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mpweiher\/status\/614169897116041217\">Marcel Weiher<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mpweiher\/status\/614169897116041217\"><p>I am at a complete loss &#8230; I think it&rsquo;s the first time since introduction of the stores that the screws have been loosened.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Update (2015-07-09): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/619181663512326144\">Daniel<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/619182426271694848\">Jalkut<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/619181663512326144\"><p>FYI the provision about MapKit outside the Mac App Store is no longer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.apple.com\/library\/prerelease\/mac\/releasenotes\/General\/rn-osx-10.11\/\">beta 3 release notes<\/a> :-\\<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/danielpunkass\/status\/619182426271694848\"><p>At least in practice I have confirmed the relaxation is still working in beta 3. Hopefully just an oversight.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/incanus77\/status\/619194920360935424\">Justin Miller<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/incanus77\/status\/619194920360935424\"><p>Fantastical uses @Mapbox, not Google, FWIW.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OS X El Capitan Developer Beta 2 Release Notes: MapKit APIs can now be used by developers in apps that are distributed outside of the App Store. Via Rosyna Keller, who asks: Which public OS X APIs are still restricted to Mac App Store apps? GameKit, iCloud\/CloudKit, Remote Push Notifications, what else? Good news, although [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[928,194,245,30,39,1199,474,106,71],"class_list":["post-11580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-lightroom","tag-fantastical","tag-googlemaps","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-mac-os-x-10-11","tag-mapkit","tag-maps","tag-programming"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11580"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11639,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11580\/revisions\/11639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}