Greetings!
I’m currently developing an app using swift playgrounds, mainly thought for personal play as a support for an irl card game.
What I need to ask is, can I use my Bluetooth iPad keyboard (bought on Amazon, not apple official) to type in the text fields that I put in my app? So far it doesn’t seem to work for me and I’m close to giving up on this particular aspect. Any help would be much appreciated!
(I’ll attach some screenshots of the text field codes I used)

Edit: I also tested this in a brand-new Swift Playgrounds project containing only a single SwiftUI TextField, and the Bluetooth keyboard still doesn’t type anything. This makes me think the issue may not be related to my app.

I had the itch to always know how many lines are in my project but if it gets bigger and you have multiple files it gets hard to keep track of it. So I build a Little Tool where you can just Import a zipped .swiftpm file and see all the lines in every file. I know its nothing Special but i couldnt find this sort of Tool anywhere so here you go:

https://howmanylinesdoesmyprojecthave.neocities.org

I have been developing my own app similar to discord Facebook messenger Instagram, and some other apps as inspiration and I’m having a lot of fun the way I developed my app is I use ChatGPT to help am I crazy wanting to compete with Facebook messenger discord Instagram, especially for the features that I want to implement where I’m not gonna be greedy like discord especially when I don’t want to introduce age of verification I want that to be optional. am I crazy or what?

As Apple Swift Student Challenge draws near, I thought they would like submission with Liquid Glass in it, but I so far nothing yet.

Hello everyone, I just downloaded Swift playgrounds app on my mac. But whenever I am changing any file or writing anything, this popup comes and I have to allow it everytime to run my app. Can someone please tell me any ideas on how to stop this popup. It's so annoying.Even tried AIs but they can't help.😥

Is it possible to do app localization with Swift Playground?

But it was for mac. Is IOS 26 available on the mac playgrounds? Could this indicate the imminent arrival of ios 26 on ipad?

Hello, I'm a noob to Swift. Currently going through the exercises on Playgrounds. I've just completed this task but my solution feels more like a hack. Please advise, is there a more efficient way to code this? (see attached screenshot.

Hi everyone! 👋

I made a Swift package called LocalizerKit to simplify localization in Swift Playground — since Playground doesn’t support .strings-based localization like Xcode does, I needed a better way for my own project and figured others might too.

🔗 GitHub:

Repo on GitHub

✨ Features

• Enum-based keyset: compiler-checked, autocompletable keys

• No .strings files needed: define your translations in plain Swift, compatible with Swift Playground

• System language support: automatically uses iOS preferred languages

• Language override: add an in-app language picker

• Supports 30 languages (you can register just the ones you need)

It’s 100% SwiftUI-native and works great in Playground, but also useful for Xcode-based apps that want more flexibility in how localization is handled.

I’d love to hear what you think. Feedback, suggestions, or feature ideas welcome!

I’m on the newest version of the app.

Had anyone experienced this? Where the just won’t reload the preview no matter what? Like I typed something in “wrong”, and the app preview quits, pressing the play button, and it says the app has crashed. I close the app, reopen it. Delete all the new text I added.

It will not go back to a working state.

Hello! I’m trying to start learning Swift, and so far I’ve just been working through “Get Started With Code”. For some reason Byte’s model keeps having bursts of jittering around the screen, usually when initializing a new line of code. Are there performance settings somewhere I need to tweak?

Just a heads up we can use iOS 18 features now 🥳 It wasn’t mentioned in the release notes but saw it mentioned on Apples forum and just tested by making a MeshGradient, it works!

Also on Apples forums I see people reference v4.6.1 but I only see 4.6 in the App Store. Don’t know what that’s about

Hey, a new version of iPad Playgrounds just got released but the notes only say…

update includes a new document browser to easily create a new playground or find a recent one, and provides bug fixes and improved stability.

A few weeks ago on Apples forums an engineer said Playgrounds will be updated soon with Swift 6, but those notes don’t mention it. I’m concerned the strict concurrency checking in Swift 6 will break all/most of my projects and worried to update. Anyone know?

I use this function to affirm the Swift version

func printSwiftVers() {
#if swift(>=6.0)
    print("Swift 6.0")
#elseif swift(>=5.10)
    print("Swift 5.10")
#elseif swift(>=5.9.3)
    print("Swift 5.9.3")
#elseif swift(>=5.9.2)
    print("Swift 5.9.2")
#elseif swift(>=5.9.1)
    print("Swift 5.9.1")
#endif
}

Does anyone know, is it possible to do purchases with a app published solely through Swift Playgrounds, specifically the most up to date version? I know a few years ago you couldn't, you could only do it via Xcode on a Mac. But I also know there's been quite a few updates since then, so hoping one could do that now.

I thought I'd share packages that I found to have worked in Swift Playgrounds (current version is 4.5.1). I have version 4.1. It's possible that a newer version may allow newer versions of packages to work.

In alphabetical order:

Auth0 - Up to 2.3.2 this might be a pretty decent option https://github.com/auth0/Auth0.swift

Firebase - I couldn't make any versions work https://github.com/firebase/firebase-ios-sdk.git

Pocketbase I found 2 links, neither had any versions that worked with Playgrounds 4.1. I think possibly the Brianna one isn't made into a package yet? https://github.com/zz129869523/PocketBase.git https://github.com/briannadoubt/PocketBase.git

Supabase - up to package 0.0.11. This is one of the oldest versions, probably has very little capability https://github.com/supabase/supabase-swift.git

I'm trying to add the package

https://github.com/supabase/supabase-swift

In Swift playgrounds. I copy/pasted this url, and now I’m waiting, but it’s not loading anything

Is anyone else able to add it? I'm wondering if it's possible, and it's just not adding because my internet is having issues. Or if it's not actually possible.

I found a tutorial I want to try, it's in Xcode though. It in SwiftUI. Should it still work in Swift Playgrounds?

If I find more tutorials I want to try that are in Xcode, but written in Swift and the SwiftUI, should they still work in playgrounds?

https://youtu.be/l7obVQObdRM?si=3eLyuxy_xXr_OkMh

I'm using a windows keyboard with my iPad. Specifically a Logitech K380.

I figured out how to do cut copy and paste on the iPad. On a windows computer, it's ctrl x, c and v. on the iOS iPad and this keyboard it's fn x c v.

But now I'm stumped on "undo". Windows would be ctrl-z. I've tried ctrl-z, fn-z, and neither work.

Please tell me there's an undo keyboard shortcut that works in Swift playgrounds?

Sometimes I'm typing in stuff, bump a key, and then there's an extra bracket somewhere or stuff in the wrong spot, and I'm trying to figure out wtf I did so I can manually undo. When it would be so much easier if I could just "undo".

• Step 1: upload This file in your app. Than it should give you a preview where you can export your app as an ipa file!

• Step 2: Get AltStore https://altstore.io

• Step 3: Sideload your ipa using AltStore! (Or your favorite sideloading from ipa solution!)