cacao VS Epic-Asset-Manager

This is really specific, but for this point in the article:

> There’s a long guide on Embedding a Command-Line Tool in a Sandboxed App, so I followed that, and then slowly, painfully, factored Xcode out of it, so that I wouldn’t have to figure out how to get a 10GB Xcode install onto the CI machine (remember, you need to be signed in to an Apple ID to download Xcode, and there’s no way to do it from the command-line).

You could actually solve this with Rust and no Xcode whatsoever. cacao [1] and cargo-bundle [2] will produce an app bundle you could sign/notarize/distribute without needing to ever open Xcode.

[1] https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao

I've had basic animation support in cacao for about a year now, but I don't think anybody even realizes it.

But I will reiterate what I say on many posts like these, which is that it would be even cooler if we could stop having a million projects reinvent this wheel - and I say this as someone who wrote a large Rust library that is backed by ObjC. madsmtm has an ongoing effort to put together a best in class ObjC Rust wrapper, which would be great to see even more support for.

MacOS; I have to call the AppKit API. I can use a library like this which offers Rust bindings for AppKit - otherwise I can write my own maybe?

Yes, you can: https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/cacao

I use the wonderful Epic Asset manager, available from Flathub

Also available through Epic Asset Manager. Required a slight fix, but is ok now. Not sure what to do with the bridge plugin though..

-There’s a flatpak called Epic Asset Manager (is also on AUR), there you can install the engine itself, you can download assets or even games from EGS (although for games I prefer heroic launcher)

The recommended way of getting Epic Asset Manager is through flathub so if you want to give it a go, try that route.

Epic Asset Manager is working to use official prebuilt binary instead of using Docker image/UE source code (#201) so I hope that remove the require to link Epic account with GitHub account.

Are you referring to this Epic Asset Manager?

My hope is that the community maintained asset manager gets more popular, since this kind of thing shouldn't be that hard to add.

That's all for now. I didn't test how unity works because I have no experince with Unity but hopefully this guide is helpful. Also I will write a guide soon about how to install Unreal engine without compiling from source using containers. Spoiler alert: by using Epic Asset Manager [EAM](https://github.com/AchetaGames/Epic-Asset-Manager) which is far more simpler

You can use https://github.com/AchetaGames/Epic-Asset-Manager for assets and you can try installing engine that way (not sure how well it works, i compile UE from source)