Thoughts on Swift Playgrounds — Fraser Speirs

The other thing that is not entirely obvious is that Playgrounds has full access to the entire iOS API. This means that there is effectively no limit on the complexity of Playground that you can build. You can use APIs like Core Location, WebKit, MapKit, Core Motion, Networking and Core Bluetooth. One of the demos given in the session on Playgrounds was of Playground Swift code controlling a Sphero robot over Bluetooth. I already did the standard daft Browser-in-five-lines-of-code trick that we used to do on the Mac.

Source: Thoughts on Swift Playgrounds — Fraser Speirs

Although Swift Playgrounds is limited to the iPads, Fraser’s in depth review of Playgrounds shows that Playgrounds is pretty powerful, and is probably a no-brainer to roll out in schools that have iPads.