Chinese student wins Apple Swift challenge with passion, creativity

Xinhua

10th June 2025

Chinese student wins Apple Swift challenge with passion, creativity

"Application development is more than just writing code. It is a form of creative expression, and I love the journey of building something from scratch," said Tianyu Xu, a Chinese university student who won Apple's 2025 Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC25) Swift Student Challenge.

Xu, a senior student at the Shanghai Institute of Technology, was among 350 students selected globally as winners of the 2025 challenge.

She was also one of 50 distinguished winners recognized for outstanding submissions and invited to Apple's Cupertino campus for a three-day experience during the WWDC week.

Xu said she participated in the competition for the first time with her Swift Playground project called "SignBridge," which aims to address communication barriers between hearing-impaired and hearing individuals on campus.

When designing "SignBridge," her primary goal was to create an intuitive and engaging experience for the users who are new to sign language.

https://english.news.cn/20250610/31eaa00c72f040f48a72fe538848fce3/c.html