Connecting to online database?

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Created Jan ’22

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The WWDC requirements say:

Submissions will be judged offline. Your Swift playground should not rely on a network connection and any resources used in your Swift playground should be included locally in your ZIP file.

So how is it possible to connect to databases to access stored data? I'm confused since last year's winning project (https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/06/apples-wwdc21-swift-student-challenge-winners-code-to-change-the-world/) seemed to have had to use an online connection (for its matching volunteers to individuals system). Or is it simply that I submit an app with data internally stored (but that seems weird to me)? If that is the case, do I even need to code a framework to send data to a database?

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Graphics and Games Engineer OP

Apple

Jan ’22

Hi! You should follow the rules as written on the submission page. I read through the article you linked, and it’s not clear to me if the highlighted apps were also submitted to the student challenge, they might be apps that were developed separately from the student challenge. So you should store any data you need locally, and how you do that is up to you.

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