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Projects where the native app is you: which screen goes up in SwiftUI, which Objective-C gets maintained and who signs the App Store release. Shakers connects you with teams that need Swift in production.
What gets read about the role is 2022 guides and the eternal debate on whether the app should have been native. None tells you how you come in to keep a real app alive by project: what goes up in SwiftUI, how the App Store review gets crossed and who answers when a signing profile expires. Here is that.
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Join ShakersThe decisions an iOS Developer owns every week
An iOS Developer builds and sustains native apps for iPhone and iPad: Swift as the language, SwiftUI and UIKit as frameworks, Xcode as the workshop and the App Store as the end of the road, with TestFlight before publishing. Objective-C stays alive in maintaining the legacy. Their proof of level is the store: passing review, holding versions and deciding what moves to SwiftUI without breaking what works. The choice between native and cross-platform belongs to mobile strategy; executing the native is their craft.
You decide which screen goes up in SwiftUI and which stay in the UIKit that works, what goes into the next TestFlight build and which Swift version the project holds. You also decide what the app refuses: a build that does not pass the tests does not go up. The product belongs to the team; the way to the store, to you.
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How Shakers works for talent
Create your profile
Tell us who you are, what you can do, the projects you want to work on and what your availability and rate are.
Get your certification
We certify your experience and your use of AI so companies understand and trust what you bring.
Match with projects
We connect you with well-paid projects that fit your expertise and your preferences.
Software Engineering projects that live up to your expectations
Work on real projects, with teams that need your expertise, without wasting time looking for opportunities.
Projects that fit you
Work with companies that need your stack and experience to take their projects to production.
Opportunities that come to you
Our AI matching connects your profile with the projects that fit your preferences.
You build. Shakers handles the rest
Set your own terms based on your seniority. We manage contracts, payments and paperwork.
What an iOS Developer delivers on a Shakers project
The brief arrives with the app
The project comes with an app behind it: published, in the making or about to launch. It starts from the pain (a screen, a review), not from technologies.
Builds that cross the review
Versions tested on TestFlight, signing and profiles in order and the App Store review passed. Delivery measured against the store, not a promise of code.
What moves to SwiftUI
You decide which screen goes up in SwiftUI and which stays in the UIKit that works: by value and by risk, never by fashion.
The store, told
Having published and kept real apps alive, and knowing how to tell it: your worst review, how you solved it and what you instrumented so it would not repeat.
The complete dialect
Swift first, UIKit when the legacy asks for it, Xcode day to day and TestFlight before every release. The whole ecosystem, not just the screen.
Where your brief ends
You build and hold the native app; the framework is decided by mobile strategy and the backend has its page. If the project slips out, you say so at kickoff.
Frequently asked questions
Any other questions? Write to us and we will reply.
Is there still demand for iOS in Spain?
Yes, and measurable against the rumour of contraction: LinkedIn Spain lists 590 positions for the role and Shakers analysis sees 61 job ads with the ios skill. The native niche keeps publishing.
Where do you find iOS projects to work on in Spain?
The question has sat orphaned in forums for years: global marketplaces serve it in English. The certified-talent route in Spanish arrives with briefs from Spanish companies and closed scope.
What is Swift in programming?
The language Apple builds its platforms on: SwiftUI and UIKit, the interface frameworks, sit on top of it. A native iOS project today is written in Swift.
Can you take on iOS projects as a junior?
Briefs ask for sustained production, and that adds up: the real way in is certifying published work (apps in the store, releases maintained) and entering through tightly scoped projects.
How much do you earn as an iOS Developer by project?
The market and the scope set it: which app you keep alive, with which stack and how much maintenance comes in. At Shakers you agree the budget per project before accepting.
How do you join Shakers as an iOS Developer?
You create your profile, pass the certification process and enter the collective: only 4 percent make it. Then you choose which iOS projects you take on.
The daily shape of the craft
The screen that goes up in SwiftUI, Apple's review crossed with no rejections, the signing profile that expires in the worst month. An app real people hold up on thousands of iPhones.
The tools are the craft
61 active tech job ads in Spain carry the ios skill and Objective-C shows up in 73, according to Shakers market analysis (n=31,162, September 2026). LinkedIn Spain lists 590 positions for the role.
How people get here
Two frequent doors: the web developer who crossed to Swift with the interface learned, and whoever inherited an Objective-C app and held it until mastering it. Both arrive with half the craft done.
What this role is not
The cross-platform framework is not your lexeme: that conversation belongs to mobile strategy. If the brief is the other mobile store or the app's backend, each has its own page. The boundary gets declared at kickoff.
The roles an iOS project crosses
Four roles from the collective cross your path holding an iOS app, from the umbrella that picks the framework to the QA that tests releases.
Mobile Developer
The umbrella picks the framework; you execute the native side: the native-versus-cross-platform debate lives on their page; the execution in Swift, here.
Android Developer
The other shore of native: when the brief covers both stores, the split between pages gets agreed in the same project. You hold Apple's.
Full Stack Developer
The full stack iOS formula lives in CVs more than in briefs: when the app needs its own backend, the project draws the line with this page.
QA Engineer
They test what you publish: regression over every version that goes up to the store, with the suites in the team's own pipeline.
Boundaries between these roles are agreed per project: the job title doesn't set them.
Take the next step with Shakers
Want to keep apps alive on thousands of iPhones?
Pass Shakers certification and choose which iOS projects you take on.
