Developing cross-platform mobile apps with a single code base is not only attractive in terms of costs. Focussing on one technology is also useful for development teams und improves code quality. With the framework NativeScript software engineers can use existing Angular- / TypeScript know-how to provide iOS and Android as well as Web apps from the same code base. 

Markus Schlichting, Senior Software Engineer and co-founder of Karakun, wrote an article about the open source framework NativeScript in the latest issue of Java aktuell 03/20. NativeScript enables you to build truly native apps for iOS, Android, and the Web, from a single JavaScript code base.

Read the full article (German)

Customer service is a hard business for insurance companies. The competition is tough and insurance products become more and more complex. Plus, EU regulations to increase consumer protection mean additional work for the insurance advisors, longer processing times and longer waiting times for customers. 

Together with the German insurance company Debeka, we developed the Foto-App to reduce complexity and increase efficiency of the work of their sales representatives. 

Want to know more about this app and how we address compliance and data privacy issues? Just click on the video below.

On this day in 2018, Karakun AG was founded in Basel, Switzerland. And our second year was really exciting. This is the time for a look back.

First of all, we defined a completely new corporate identity. Our company logo and the newly designed website now look fresh and friendly. As the whole company was involved – some more, some less – the result is really ours.

We did not only move forward in regards to marketing. We also had the chance to work on very exciting projects. A few of them are published on our showcase page.

Many new colleagues joined Karakun during the last 12 months. Once again welcome to all of you. As our offices became too small because of this steady growth we moved to our new home near the train station Basel SBB. But that’s not all: we also opened new offices in Mumbai (India) and Dortmund (Germany).

And last but not least we were (and are) very happy to welcome René Stierli and Luc Haldimann as new members of our board of directors.

However, our journey is not over yet. Stay tuned for more news…