MacGap

The MacGap project provides HTML/JS/CSS developers an Xcode project for developing Native OSX Apps.

The project exposes a JavaScript API for OS X integration, such as displaying native OS X 10.9 notifications. The MacGap project is extremely lightweight and nimble; a blank application is about 380KB.

Features:

• open-source
• tiny compiled app sizes
• Mac App Store compatible
• access to many Mac OS X-specific features

Pre-requisites

MacGap 2 works on OSX 10.9 and later. MacGap 1 works on OSX 10.6 and later.

API

MacGap exposes an object called MacGap inside JavaScript.

Attributes

MacGap was forked/ported from Phonegap-mac. It’s under the same license (MIT).

Custom Build

To build, make sure you have installed the latest Mac OSX Core Library. Download at http://developer.apple.com/.

Just clone the repository and build in Xcode. The file public/index.html is loaded on startup.