Hello, I’m a 15-year-old winner of the Swift Student Challenge (in the regular group). When applying to attend WWDC, it asks me to choose who I am requesting for. The options are my name, and then “An attendee who is 13–17 years old.” If both are true for me, which do I choose? I’m mainly asking because if I don’t choose the latter, it doesn’t ask me for my parent‘s contact info. Please let me know! Thanks in advance.

Since there is no theme for the Swift Student Challenge, could we prepare an app far ahead in advance? Like, work on the 2025 challenge right now?

Swift Student Challenge 2024: Swift Student Challenge main page Swift Student Challenge > Eligibility Swift Student Challenge > Terms and Conditions, aka the fine print News and Updates > Announcing the Swift Student Challenge 2024 News and Updates > Swift Student Challenge applications open February 5 News and Updates > Apply for the Swift Student Challenge now through February 25 Share and Enjoy — Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

The eagle-eyed amongst you might have noticed a recent change to the information about deployment targets in the Swift Student Challenge fine print. Here’s a short FAQ about that. If you have any follow-up questions, post them below and I’ll answer them there. Can I use iPadOS 17 APIs in my submission? Yes. We expect to review your submission on the latest public release of iPadOS. Does that include APIs introduced in a dot release? Yes. Right now the latest public release of iPadOS is iPadOS 17.3.1. If your submission relies on an API introduced in, say, iPadOS 17.2, that’s absolutely fine. My iPad doesn’t support iPadOS 17. Can I ask for a review on iPadOS 16? iPadOS 17 is generally compatible with iPadOS 16. If we notice problems with your submission on iPadOS 17, we’ll retest it on the latest public release of iPadOS 16. What about macOS? It’s basically the same story. So, if your submission targets macOS, we expect to review it on the latest public release. Share and Enjoy — Quinn “The Eskimo!” @ Developer Technical Support @ Apple let myEmail = "eskimo" + "1" + "@" + "apple.com"

Hi, I have submitted my playground for the Swift Student Challenge 2024. As in the competition guidelines it does not state that the app is going to be tested on a certain iPad Pro model- 12.9 or 11. However, my playground is only optimized for 12.9 as there are no specific rules on thee device it is being tested on. I have already submitted my playground so how will I inform the judges which iPad they have to test it on? Thanks :)

Hello, I have submitted an application about a day ago before the deadline, but still have not received a confirmation email. I've tried to contact customer service about it, but I haven't gotten an answer back yet. Is there still a chance that they received my application?

Hello, I’ve been trying to play system sounds in my app, but this hasn’t really been working. I am frequently switching between speech recognition (Speech framework) and sounds, so perhaps that’s where the issue lies. However, despite my best efforts, I haven't been able to solve the issue. I've been resetting the AVAudioSession category before playing a sound or starting speech recognition (as depicted in the code snippet below), to no avail. Has this happened to anyone else? Does anybody know how to fix the issue? recognizer = nil try? AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(.playback, mode: .default, options: []) try? AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true) AudioServicesPlaySystemSound(1113) try? AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setCategory(.record, mode: .spokenAudio, options: []) try? AVAudioSession.sharedInstance().setActive(true) recognizer = SpeechRecognition(word: wordSheet) recognizer!.startRecognition() Thank you.

I've built an Apple Watch app. And, I'm not able to export it as a playground. Am I screwed? Or is there a way I can still submit it as a .swiftpm?

Hi, I'm using SwiftData in my app with the @available(iOS 17.0, *) annotation. It runs perfectly on iOS 17, but I encounter a weird memory error I can't seem to solve on iOS 16. Can I still submit my app, or will it be disqualified for not running on iOS 16? Thanks!

Hello! I have a question about using the camera in my app. I created it using Xcode 15 app playground, and it is working properly on iPhone and iPad, the problem is that in the application form, it says that the playground app created in Xcode will be tested in the simulator. But as we know, the camera does not work in the simulator. My app uses AR resources and I need to use the camera, how can I proceed? Can I ask them to test it on a real device?

Hi ! I need help for coding something : I want a function to erase random words on it, I tried everything found in the internet, nothing's worked. (here's my code : ) Anyone could give an eye to it? Many thanks struct ContentView: View { @State private var showScannerSheet = false @State private var texts:[ScanData] = [] var body: some View { NavigationView { ZStack { Color.white .ignoresSafeArea() VStack{ if texts.count > 0{ List{ ForEach(texts){text in NavigationLink( destination:ScrollView{Text(text.content) .padding()}, label: { Text(text.content).lineLimit(1) }) } } } else{ Button(action: { self.showScannerSheet = true }, label : { VStack { Image(systemName: "doc.text.viewfinder") .resizable() .frame(width: 200, height: 200) .font(.title) VStack { Text("Scan here to begin !") }.padding() } }) .sheet(isPresented: $showScannerSheet, content: { makeScannerView() }) } } } } } private func makeScannerView()-> ScannerView { ScannerView(completion: { textPerPage in if let outputText = textPerPage?.joined(separator: "\n").trimmingCharacters(in: .whitespacesAndNewlines){ let newScanData = ScanData(content: outputText) self.texts.append(newScanData) let numberOfWordsToRemove = 5 let modifiedText = removeRandomWordsInScanData(newScanData, numberOfWordsToRemove : numberOfWordsToRemove) newScanData.content = modifiedText return ScannerView(completion: { }) } self.showScannerSheet = false }) } } #Preview { ContentView() }

Hi, I'd like to separate each paragraph of a text in a list, I'm trying to find how to do it, I know it's certainly a dumb question but I'm new at coding, please be kind haha, may someone help me? thanks a million

I just clicked submit on my application to the swift student challenge and it brought me back to the screen where I login in with my developer account. After I logged in again all of the information from my application was gone. Does this mean my application went through or was I supposed to get some type of confirmation email?

Hi there! I have been working on a small project to submit to the Swift Student challenge this year, but I noticed when going to submit that there is a checkbox in the submission process that asks: I certify that I am not working full time as a developer and not employed by Apple in any capacity at the time of application. Completing three coop terms (internships) is a required part of my program, which are all full-time work- and I am currently in a co-op term. These are considered "classes" according to my university, but I'm worried that it would be considered as normal developer work in the eyes of Apple. Am I safe to submit, or will I have to sit this year out? Thanks, Simon

Should I leave comments I made in my code or delete them before I submit? Thanks!

Hi Developers, I got a question about Reality Composer Project. How do I compress a Reality Composer Project as mine is showing up to 125MB. The file size limit is 25 MB for the Swift Student Challenge Thanks :)

Hi! I just read the updated terms and conditions, and I have a question regarding the submission requirements: Your app playground must be fully functioning, and be built with and run on Swift Playgrounds 4.4 on iPadOS 16 or macOS 13.5 or Xcode 15 on macOS 13.5 or later. You may incorporate the use of Apple Pencil. This means that the app can be built on iPadOS 17 / macOS 14 as well (and perhaps add some features specific to iPadOS 17 / macOS 14 or later using features such as SwiftData?) but does the app need to be fully compatible with earlier versions as well? I think this means it should be compatible with all versions from iPadOS 16 / macOS 13.5 onwards?

Hello! For my Swift Student Challenge 2024 Project I'm using some Illustrations from OpenDoodles (opendoodles.com). Open doodles is free for commercial and personal use and the creator has no copyright claimed. My question is whether I have to clarify the use of these Illustration when submitting the project.

My app looks the best when it's run on an iPhone simulator, since that is what I was targeting from the start. I’m aware that an Xcode app playground submission will be run on MacOS in the Simulator only, but is there a way for me to limit/ask the Simulator to only use the iPhone? I'm seeing a few posts on this forum giving the impression that submissions will primarily be run on either the iPad, or Swift Playgrounds on Mac. Furthermore, my app depends a lot on some of the new iOS 17 features (SwiftData, @Observable macros, etc.) I followed this thread to modify my Package.swift file to target iOS 17 and above only. Is this still a good idea, or should I instead wrap the whole app in a if #available version check?

Hey everyone, I'm making a Playground targeting specifically iPadOS. I've read the Terms and Conditions and it says it will be run on iPad OS 16 and newer. Does anyone know if this means 16.6 or truly 16.0? I have a view modifier which is only supported in 16.4 in later.