I am developing my app for the Swift Student Challenge 2024. I have made significant progress on it and have been building it on a M1 Mac, where it works perfectly. However, when testing it on some iPads (specifically, the iPad Pro 2018 and iPad Air 5 M1), it did not perform well on these devices.
I am wondering if I can specify whether the app should be reviewed on a Mac (M1 or later) or if it will be reviewed on an iPad.
Last year, you had to pick from one of these options:
I guess it will probably be similar this year, if not the same. While it didn't specify if Apple Silicon Macs will be used, I suppose that will be the case, though I believe your project may work fine on Intel-based ones too.
I'm curious why your app doesn't work well on iPad, including M1 ones. Sounds like your app uses quite a lot of processing power, but I guess it should work on M1 iPads as well. Maybe you need to make some additional changes to fully support them. But, in any case, I think you will be able to select one of the options above. What I'm curious about is what run destination will be chosen in Xcode (iPhone / iPad Simulator, Mac Catalyst app etc.) - but since I made my app fully support all platforms last year, it did not really matter for me.
If you have other any specific instructions to run your playground, last year I received this response, and it might also apply this year.
Do not rely solely on this information and be sure to check the updated terms and conditions on February 5th! A link to the terms should appear here when the challenge opens.
Thanks for your great response! I am also corcened about why it dosen't run well on iPad, my app uses a lot the processor because it heats my mac hahaha. Maybe that is the reason.
Well, perhaps that is the reason then (not the heating, but rather the high CPU usage). What is your app about in broad, vague terms, if you feel comfortable sharing - and what causes it to be this CPU-intense? If you don't want to share your idea I understand. Maybe there are ways to adapt your app for iPads. As I said, you might be able to run it on a Mac only, but I guess also trying to adapt it for iPads would be a fun learning exercise :)
