Exceptional iOS Apps Built for Apple's World

Elegant, high-performance native iOS apps that delight users and drive business results

Facing These iOS Development Challenges?

Ecosystem & Version Complexity

  • Adapting UI: Ensuring flawless layouts across diverse iPhone & iPad screen sizes and orientations.
  • OS Updates: Maintaining compatibility and performance through major iOS version releases.
  • App Store Hurdles: Navigating Apple's review guidelines and submission process efficiently.
  • Device Variations: Testing complexity across different iPhone/iPad generations and capabilities.

Performance & Polish Demands

  • Native Experience: Achieving the high polish and intuitive feel Apple users expect.
  • UI Sluggishness: Performance bottlenecks killing user engagement and retention.
  • Battery Drain: Complaints from users about excessive power consumption.
  • Instability: Laggy animations, slow transitions, and app crashes impacting user trust.

Development & Platform Evolution Hurdles

  • Talent Scarcity: Difficulty finding experienced Swift/Objective-C developers.
  • Rapid Changes: Keeping pace with Apple's evolving APIs, SDKs (SwiftUI, Combine, etc.), and best practices.
  • Backward Compatibility: Maintaining functionality for users on older iOS versions.
  • Integration Complexity: Seamlessly integrating with Apple-specific services (iCloud, HealthKit, ARKit, Apple Pay).

Why Leading Companies Trust 1985 for iOS Development

Our founder Sharath personally guides the architecture of all iOS projects, ensuring your application is built on solid foundations from day one. With experience spanning the evolution of iOS from its early versions, we create apps that work flawlessly across the entire Apple ecosystem while leveraging the latest iOS platform capabilities.

What you get from us

  • Performance-Driven iOS Development

    Our iOS implementations deliver measurable results:

    • Silky smooth UI performance (targeting 60/120fps)
    • Optimized battery consumption
    • Minimal crash-free session rates
    • Compact app size via App Thinning
  • Complete iOS Ecosystem Mastery

    We excel at all aspects of iOS development:

    • Modern Swift-first development
    • MVVM/VIPER/Clean Architecture
    • SwiftUI & UIKit expertise
    • Adherence to Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)
    • Complex native integrations (CoreML, ARKit, Metal)
  • Business-Focused Development

    Beyond code, we deliver business impact:

    • Higher user retention rates
    • Increase in in-app conversions
    • Seamless updates and maintenance
    • Future-proof architecture

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Our Android Development Process

How We Help You Succeed in Three Steps.

  • 1

    Discovery & Planning

    Setting the foundation for success:

    • Business goals & requirements analysis
    • Target audience & Apple device profiling (iPhone, iPad, Watch)
    • UI/UX planning & prototyping (adhering to Human Interface Guidelines)
    • Architecture selection (SwiftUI/UIKit, MVVM/VIPER, etc.)
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  • 2

    Agile Development

    Building with quality and speed:

    • Modular Swift development 
      • Continuous integration (via Xcode Cloud / CI tools)
      • Automated testing (XCTest, UI Testing)
      • Regular client demos (via TestFlight)
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  • 3

    Optimization & Testing

    Ensuring exceptional user experience:

    • Performance profiling (using Instruments)
    • Battery consumption optimization
    • Cross-device testing (across relevant iPhone/iPad models & iOS versions)
    • Security hardening (ATS, Keychain services)
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Frequently Asked Questions

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A Few Words from Our Clients

  • The team at 1985 produces excellent work, and yet they’re very humble people. That’s a breath of fresh air for me.

    Donavon Urfalian, Founder - Kodo