Can we use third-party Swift Packages in our App Playground?

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Created Apr ’23

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Hi everyone,I am currently working on building an App Playground using Xcode 14 on macOS 13. As the guidelines mentioned on the official website:

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

However, I am unsure if I can use third-party Swift Packages in my App Playground. My app itself does not require a network connection to run. But if I added any Swift Package, I think Xcode needs to resolve the dependencies from GitHub before building it, which might require a network connection. I don't know if that would violate the "offline" rule.

Many thanks for your reply!

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cretu OP

Apr ’23

Hey! I'm also also participating in the Swift Student Challenge and would like to use a third-party service. Whilst initially I added it as a package (using Swift Playgrounds), I've then looked into files and seen that the only reference that package has is a dependency link:

dependencies: [
        .package(url: "https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;simibac&#x2F;ConfettiSwiftUI", "1.0.1"..&lt;"2.0.0")
    ],

which seems that it indeed needs a network connection to resolve the package. What I ended up doing was including the source file from the GitHub repository (MIT Licensed) with credits and links.

Best of luck on your app!

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