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The next update to Swift Playgrounds is supposed to allow full iOS app development and submission to the App Store with no Mac involved.

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> The next update to Swift Playgrounds is supposed to allow full iOS app development…

May or may not be pedantry, but it’s not allowing the UIKit APIs, only SwiftUI. Still possible to make a full app, but on top of the IDE features that it lacks from Xcode, it’s specifically shutting out important parts of current iOS app development in 2021.

That’s not to say there’s not good reasons for it too, but it’s worth pointing out.

FWIW, Swift Playgrounds currently allows apps to load any library–I would be surprised to see technical restrictions preventing the use of UIKit. App review might not like it, but other than that it doesn't seem like there would be much stopping it.

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