Thursday, July 24, 2025
Tags
- App Wrapper
- Liquid Glass
- Tahoe
Adopting Liquid Glass with a Xojo made application
Thursday, July 24, 2025 - Sam Rowlands
A Xojo 2021 built application running on macOS 26 Tahoe.
At WWDC 2025, Apple showed off their UI overhaul, calling it Liquid Glass. It's a polarizing style with some loving it and some hating it. Which ever camp you fall into, if your app doesn't support Liquid Glass, it will look out of place for a customer running Tahoe or newer.
At the time of writing, Xojo made apps don't use Liquid Glass, making them look out dated. But not to worry as with App Wrapper's help they can easily be made to adopt Apple's latest UI.
App Wrapper is currently part of this years Omegabundle, grab it and 10 other Xojo add-ons for a massively discounted price.
To make your Xojo app compatible with Liquid Glass
Follow these steps to make your Xojo application use Liquid Glass.
If you're making Universal Binaries, please download App Wrapper 4.9 either from https://ohanaware.com/appwrapper/prerelease.html or https://ohanaware.com/appwrapper
- Open the Xojo made application in App Wrapper.
- Click the "Options..." button next to Code signing.
- Select the "General" tab in the advanced options window.
- Check "Executable minimum macOS and SDK".
- Enter "26", "0", "0" into the SDK fields.
- Enter in your desired minimum OS version.
- Save the settings.
- Now wrap your application or build from Xojo if you're using a Xojo script.
This is the same technique that we used to make our Xojo built apps macOS 11 Big Sur compatible.