{"id":2962,"date":"2011-01-07T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T16:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2962"},"modified":"2011-01-09T20:55:05","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T01:55:05","slug":"unique-mac-app-store-bundle-ids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/07\/unique-mac-app-store-bundle-ids\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Mac App Store Bundle IDs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/felttip.tumblr.com\/post\/2634607387\/mac-app-store-bundle-ids\">Lucius Kwok<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/felttip.tumblr.com\/post\/2634607387\/mac-app-store-bundle-ids\"><p>Turns out I should have picked a new, unique Bundle Identifier. Unique in the sense that it can&rsquo;t be the same as the one from the previous version of the same app. Currently it&rsquo;s com.felttip.SoundStudio. Something like com.felttip.SoundStudio.mas would have fixed it. But I never thought about doing that, because then it would mean that the preferences and document associations with the old app would not carry over to the Mac App Store version.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being that my applications aren&rsquo;t yet approved for sale, I&rsquo;m trying to figure out whether I made the right choice in registering separate bundle IDs for my Mac App Store builds. I thought this made sense because, even with the same version numbers, the features will be different. However, there are certainly disadvantages to unique IDs <a href=\"http:\/\/felttip.tumblr.com\/post\/2640183602\/the-bundle-id-dilemma\">as well<\/a>, and now I&rsquo;m leaning the other way. It&rsquo;s unfortunate that Apple has been silent on this and so many other issues.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2011-01-09): Apple advised <a href=\"http:\/\/felttip.tumblr.com\/post\/2644994215\/bundle-id-resolution\">Lucius Kwok<\/a> to use the same bundle ID.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lucius Kwok: Turns out I should have picked a new, unique Bundle Identifier. Unique in the sense that it can&rsquo;t be the same as the one from the previous version of the same app. Currently it&rsquo;s com.felttip.SoundStudio. Something like com.felttip.SoundStudio.mas would have fixed it. But I never thought about doing that, because then it would [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962","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=2962"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2979,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2962\/revisions\/2979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}