Deprecated API Usage - Apple no longer accepts submissions of apps that use QuickTime APIs.

tk.fs

Did anyone find a solution for this? We have a mixed QWidget/QML app that does not include any video support and just got declined with the same message:

This happened after the iTunesConnect update last week using Qt5.3.1. We successfully submitted another edition of this App previously without getting an error message.

We've used MacDependency to browse through all linked libraries, but could not find any links to QuickTime.Framwork. Does anybody know if Qt5.3.1 is really built without QutickTime dependencies? My guess right now is that Qt (= digia Qt) and Qt (= QuickTime) are too similar, but I want to make sure before opening a support Ticket with Apple.

SGaist

Hi,

For QuickTime it's QT

Anyway, AFAIK, VLC got their own application in the AppStore, so it's probably possible to submit an app using their library.

@tk.fs What version of Xcode and OS X are you running ?

tk.fs

@SGaist: the problem occurs with the latest edition needed to submit iOS8 and OSX10.10 apps (XCode 6GM on OSX 10.9.4). The problem also occurred with Xcode 5, but in both cases only after the "new" iTunesConnect interface for uploading Apps got online. It seems Apple made some changes to the validation routines with the interface update.

SGaist

Sounds like you should take a look at the "bug report system":http://bugreports.qt-project.org to see if it's something known, if not please consider opening a new report providing as much details as possible to reproduce the failure.

Does it also happen with a minimal default project ?

qtuser2014

Yes, QT = Quicktime and Qt or qt = digia qt. I suspected that this might be an issue too, but it wasn't.

My programmer looked deeper into my libraries and it turns out that some of my libraries did have QTKit (which Apple released years ago) references in them. My app is video based and uses ffmpeg and vlclib and it was somewhere within these libraries that he found QTKit. He removed them and my app was accepted recently to the App Store.

Here's more info about QTKit: https://developer.apple.com/quicktime/

Can you use MacDependency to search for QTKit instead of QuickTime.Framework?

SGaist

It's not qt, it's Qt.

Good point about QTKit though, Apple is getting tricky with their frameworks

tk.fs

We've verified all libraries linked with our app and found that libqqt7engine.dylib links agains QtKit.

https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-41326

I'm not quite sure why the dylib was copied to our app bundle by macdeployqt in the first place - we don't use multimedia features in our app.

SGaist

Webkit ? Got QT += multimedia somewhere in your project ?

tk.fs

no, we don't

SGaist

What modules are you currently using ?

tk.fs

QT += qml quick widgets webkitwidgets network sql xml script macextras printsupport concurrent gui-private

Other than that only weak links to Apple's EventKit for calendar integration

SGaist

webkitwidgets wouldn't surprise me as having a dependency on multimedia.

You can use otool -L on the libs to check

tk.fs

Just to finalize discussion: Yoann Lopez fixed the issue for Qt5.4 - there was an outdated reference to QuickTime, which is for supporting Mac OS X 10.6. As support for Mac OS X 10.6 was dropped, this is no longer needed in the future. This solved the issue for me! Thanks!!!

https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-41326

SGaist

Nice !

Then please update the thread title prepending [solved] so other forum users may know a solution has been found :)