Launch app at login in OS X 10.10 Yosemite

Question

I need to add my application to the login items in the system preferences when then user presses a button. I've seen other answers around Stack Overflow, but many of them rely on <10.8 or <10.10 and deprecated APIs like LSSharedFileServices. Some of the answers refer to LSSharedFileServices, to which I can't find the documentation on Apple's website.

I did find this but it seems like that is vastly over-engineered.

Should I just give up on Cocoa and use a bash script?

Answer 1

The website you mentioned is a very good approach. It seemes over-engineered, but it is quite simple to implement. I used this idea myself and it is ok for the Mac App Store. You should give it a try, if you don't like it, you can still look for something else