Mastering all the facets of iOS development is essential to us. The way Apple suggests you structure your app is a good starting point, but it shows its limitations as an app grows ever-more complex. The codebase becomes messy, difficult to debug, and hard to maintain. We thought it shouldn't be like that, so we spent months studying all the latest and most appreciated design patterns adopted by developers on a variety of platforms. We used that knowledge to create Katana.

We believe that Katana is one of the very best solutions out there for writing a mobile app. It's a modern and elegant framework, written in Swift, which allows you to give structure to all the aspects of your app. Using Katana, your codebase will be predictable, efficient, simple to write, and easy to debug—even as it grows. We're so proud of it that we just couldn't keep it all to ourselves, so we decided to make it an open-source project, available on our GitHub page. Developers around the world have shown their appreciation, and we couldn't be happier about it.

We’re going to let you into a secret. Nobody in the world knows as much as we do about the number of downloads and the revenue generated by every single product on the App Store. This superpower has a name: Crystal. We process data for hundreds of thousands of apps in all countries on an hourly basis. We then convert that information into the number of daily downloads and revenue thanks to the pinpoint statistical models developed by our Data Science team, which boasts an ex-Googler and an ex-CERN researcher.

All this data is presented on a web interface (our version of a crystal ball), which makes tapping into this knowledge embarrassingly easy. Crystal is an incredible competitive advantage for Bending Spoons. It informs our strategic decisions, helps benchmark our performance against the competition, and so much more. Crystal is the quintessential example of the crucial role data plays within Bending Spoons.

Mastering all the facets of iOS development is essential to us. The way Apple suggests you structure your app is a good starting point, but it shows its limitations as an app grows ever-more complex. The codebase becomes messy, difficult to debug, and hard to maintain. We thought it shouldn't be like that, so we spent months studying all the latest and most appreciated design patterns adopted by developers on a variety of platforms. We used that knowledge to create Katana.

We believe that Katana is one of the very best solutions out there for writing a mobile app. It's a modern and elegant framework, written in Swift, which allows you to give structure to all the aspects of your app. Using Katana, your codebase will be predictable, efficient, simple to write, and easy to debug—even as it grows. We're so proud of it that we just couldn't keep it all to ourselves, so we decided to make it an open-source project, available on our GitHub page. Developers around the world have shown their appreciation, and we couldn't be happier about it.