Missing CFBundleShortVersionString when distribute Flutter app with ShareExtension

Question

I have a Flutter application which use receive_sharing_intent package, and as requested by the plugin, I've created a Share Extension.

My app and the extension build and work correctly, but when I archive and distribute my app (App Store Connect), at the end of the uploading I have the following error messages:

ERROR ITMS-90057: "The bundle 'Payload/Runner.app/PlugIns/ShareExtension.appex' is missing plist key. The Info.plist is missing the required key: CFBundleShortVersionString."

ERROR ITMS-90056: "This bundle 'Payload/Runner.app/PlugIns/ShareExtension.appex' is invalid. The Info.plist is missing the required key: CFBundleVersion."

ERROR ITMS-90360: "Missing Info.plist value. A value for the key 'CFBundleVersion' in bundle Payload/Runner.app/PlugIns/ShareExtension.appex is required."

ERROR ITMS-90360: "Missing Info.plist value. A value for the key 'CFBundleShortVersionString' in bundle Payload/Runner.app/PlugIns/ShareExtension.appex is required."

But in my ios/ShareExtension/Info.plist file I have:

    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
    <string>$(FLUTTER_BUILD_NAME)</string>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>$(FLUTTER_BUILD_NUMBER)</string>

I also tried with:

    <key>CFBundleShortVersionString</key>
    <string>$(MARKETING_VERSION)</string>
    <key>CFBundleVersion</key>
    <string>$(CURRENT_PROJECT_VERSION)</string>

which remove the error for CFBundleVersion but CFBundleShortVersionString is still invalid.

By explicitly setting my app version and build number in the extension plist the upload succeed.
But is there a way to use FLUTTER_BUILD_NAME and FLUTTER_BUILD_NUMBER variables in the extension plist?

NOTE:

I'm using Xcode 11.6

Answer 1

Sharing my C program per @Aidan David request, but:

• I don't think this is the correct solution, but only a workaround.
• Use at your own risk :-)
• Also adding the zsh script I'm using to inject the required plist values.

ZSH script:

 ./plist_replace_value ./NotificationService/Info.plist CFBundleVersion `grep ^version: ../pubspec.yaml | awk -F'[\\+ ]' '{print $3}'` ./plist_replace_value ./NotificationService/Info.plist CFBundleShortVersionString `grep ^version: ../pubspec.yaml | awk -F'[\\+ ]' '{print $2}'` ./plist_replace_value ./Share\\ Extension/Info.plist CFBundleVersion `grep ^version: ../pubspec.yaml | awk -F'[\\+ ]' '{print $3}'` ./plist_replace_value ./Share\\ Extension/Info.plist CFBundleShortVersionString `grep ^version: ../pubspec.yaml | awk -F'[\\+ ]' '{print $2}'`

C Program, plist_replace_value.c:

 #include <string.h> #include <stdio.h> #define MAX_LINE 256 void print_usage(char *programName) { printf("\\nUsage:\\n%s <plist file> <key> <value>\\n", programName); } int main(int argc, char *argv[]) { FILE *plist_file, *output_file; int replaced = 0; char line[MAX_LINE]; printf("Plist key-value parser. Supports replacing values.\\n"); fflush(stdout); if (argc < 4) { fprintf(stderr, "Insufficient number of parameters."); print_usage(argv[0]); return 1; } plist_file = fopen(argv[1], "r+"); if (plist_file == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Unable to open %s, aborting...\\n", argv[1]); return 1; } output_file = fopen("temp.plist", "w"); if (output_file == NULL) { fprintf(stderr, "Unable to create temporary file, aborting...\\n"); return 1; } fgets(line, MAX_LINE, plist_file); while (!feof(plist_file) && !replaced) { fprintf(output_file, "%s", line); if (strstr(line, argv[2]) != NULL) { fprintf(output_file, "\\t<string>%s</string>\\n", argv[3]); // Skip the next output line fgets(line, MAX_LINE, plist_file); } fgets(line, MAX_LINE, plist_file); } fclose(output_file); fclose(plist_file); remove(argv[1]); rename("temp.plist", argv[1]); return 0; }

Answer 2

I had the same problem when app version had no version code. With version like 1.0.0 ios app had missing plist key error. Try to add version code like 1.0.0+0