Add helper to check/add app to auto start

2 files changed, 41 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/app/lib/platform.android.js b/app/lib/platform.android.js
index 1dc450b359..5b3abb4496 100644
--- a/app/lib/platform.android.js
+++ b/app/lib/platform.android.js
@@ -9,6 +9,14 @@ const getAppVersion = () => {
   return version;
 };
 
+const getOpenAtLogin = () => {
+  throw new Error('Not implemented');
+};
+
+const setOpenAtLogin = (_autoStart: boolean) => {
+  throw new Error('Not implemented');
+};
+
 const exit = () => {
   BackHandler.exitApp();
 };
@@ -21,4 +29,4 @@ const openItem = (path: string) => {
   MobileAppBridge.openItem(path);
 };
 
-export { log, exit, openLink, openItem, getAppVersion };
+export { log, exit, openLink, openItem, getAppVersion, getOpenAtLogin, setOpenAtLogin };
diff --git a/app/lib/platform.js b/app/lib/platform.js
index ecbd32a27a..0e46341149 100644
--- a/app/lib/platform.js
+++ b/app/lib/platform.js
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 // @flow
 import { remote, shell } from 'electron';
 import electronLog from 'electron-log';
+import { execFile } from 'child_process';
+import { promisify } from 'util';
+
+const execFileAsync = promisify(execFile);
 
 const log = electronLog;
 
@@ -8,6 +12,33 @@ const getAppVersion = () => {
   return remote.app.getVersion();
 };
 
+const getOpenAtLogin = () => {
+  return remote.app.getLoginItemSettings().openAtLogin;
+};
+
+const setOpenAtLogin = async (openAtLogin: boolean) => {
+  // setLoginItemSettings is broken on macOS and cannot delete login items.
+  // Issue: https://github.com/electron/electron/issues/10880
+  if (process.platform === 'darwin' && openAtLogin === false) {
+    // process.execPath in renderer process points to the sub-bundle of Electron Helper.
+    // This regular expression extracts the path to the app bundle, which is the first occurrence of
+    // file with .app extension.
+    const matches = process.execPath.match(/([a-z0-9 ]+)\.app/i);
+    if (matches && matches.length > 1) {
+      const bundleName = matches[1];
+      const appleScript = `on run argv
+        set itemName to item 1 of argv
+        tell application "System Events" to delete login item itemName
+      end run`;
+      await execFileAsync('osascript', ['-e', appleScript, bundleName]);
+    } else {
+      log.error(`Cannot extract the app bundle name from ${process.execPath}`);
+    }
+  } else {
+    remote.app.setLoginItemSettings({ openAtLogin });
+  }
+};
+
 const exit = () => {
   remote.app.quit();
 };
@@ -20,4 +51,4 @@ const openItem = (path: string) => {
   shell.openItem(path);
 };
 
-export { log, exit, openLink, openItem, getAppVersion };
+export { log, exit, openLink, openItem, getAppVersion, getOpenAtLogin, setOpenAtLogin };