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Apple has announced that the annual worldwide developer conference will take place virtually free of charge on June 22nd in the Apple Developer app and on the Apple Developer website for all developers. The company also announced the Swift Student Challenge, an opportunity for student developers to demonstrate their love of coding by creating their own Swift playground.

Now, in its 31st year, WWDC20 offers millions of creative and innovative developers around the world the ability to early access to the future of iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS and watchOS and learn from Apple engineers as they work on creating App experiences that enrich the lives of Apple customers around the world.

"WWDC20 will be our largest to date, bringing our global developer base of more than 23 million unprecedentedly together for a week in June to learn more about the future of Apple platforms," ​​said Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of Worldwide Marketing . “We can't wait to meet with the global developer community online in June and share with them all the new tools we've been working on to help them build even more incredible apps and services. We look forward to sharing more details about WWDC20 as we approach this exciting event. "

"Students are an integral part of Apple's developer community. Last year, more than 350 student developers from 37 different countries participated in WWDC," said Craig Federighi, Apple's senior vice president of software engineering. “As we look forward to WWDC 2020, we'd like to acknowledge and celebrate the creative contributions of our young developers from around the world, although our meeting this year will be virtual. We can't wait for this next generation of innovative thinkers to turn their ideas into reality through the Swift Student Challenge. "

Fast playgrounds is a revolutionary app for iPad and Mac that makes learning the Swift programming language interactive and entertaining. Now until 11:59 p.m. PDT on May 17 / 7:59 a.m. BST On May 18, student developers from all over the world can submit to the Swift Student Challenge by creating an interactive scene on a Swift playground within three minutes can be experienced. The winners will receive an exclusive WWDC20 jacket and pin set. More information can be found on the website here.

Developers are encouraged to download the Apple Developer app, which will release additional information on the WWDC20 program in June, including Keynote and Platforms State of the Union details, session and lab schedules, etc. Information is also available on the Apple Developer website and via email.

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