Sophomore Vedant Malhotra was a winner of the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference Swift Student Challenge. | University of Nevada, Reno press release.
Sophomore Vedant Malhotra was a winner of the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference Swift Student Challenge. | University of Nevada, Reno press release.
A computer Science and Engineering major at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR) has won the Apple Worldwide Developer Conference Swift Student Challenge.
Reno, Vedant Malhotra, a sophomore at UNR, won the challenge and is also involved in the Digital Wolf Pack Initiative's App Development with Wolf Pack project, according to a news release issued by the school.
Malhotra said that he competed in the challenge last year and when he didn’t win, he started brainstorming for this year’s competition.
According to Malhotra: “I applied for the Swift Student Challenge competition in 2021 and didn’t win so I started drafting and working on ideas for the next year trying to think of what could be fun for the event using Apple devices. It was a great year developing and attending the app development workshops in the Knowledge Center.”
This year's challenge was based implementing a Swift Playgrounds app project into a three-minute interactive scene with students choosing the topics and displaying their coding skills.
According to Malhotra: “My submission was based around a story that puts the user on a mission to save WWDC. In the scenario, a character named ‘Craig’ forgets to update his iPad to iPadOS 16, and he needs the new software to present. He reaches out to the user for help. Within the app, there are three mini-apps — DeviceRestore, iPadOS 16 preview and WWDC 2022. The app uses SwiftUI, UIKit, ARKit, PencilKit and QuickLook. SwiftUI powers the main interface of the app, and ARKit and PencilKit power the iPadOS 16 preview and the WWDC 2022 mini-apps.”
Despite his deep knowledge of coding and app development, Malhotra is adamant that those interested in developing web programs can get a head start by utilizing the Digital Wolf Pack Initiative and going through the app-based Wolf Pack courses.
According to Malhotra: “It’s insane what you can do with an iPad, the sky's the limit. There’s a lot to do in the app development classes and you can pick-up a lot more like catching-up on new features, such as accessibility changes. There is always something new to learn.”
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