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[Ayres G.J. <g.j.ayres AT swansea.ac.uk>]

Hi,

> Can you please elaborate slightly on what the improvement is? We currently
> shy away from recommending the cat tool to our android users as it requires
> them to have GPS/location services turned on which is not always practical
> as for one most don't know what that means and describing it for most
> devices simply increases the instructions we put out to our users.

The app uses coarse location (as google puts it), which does not use GPS.
It makes use of Wi-Fi and cell tower localisation. 
So the profile discovery will work if the location services are on (they are 
by default I believe) and even if GPS is off.

In some versions of android, GPS and location services are separate options 
made clearly visible to enable/disable independently.
In some versions of android (certainly in 6) there is one location services 
option, but it has 3 modes:
High Accuracy (GPS+Wifi+cell)
Battery Saving (Wifi+cell)
Device Only (GPS only)

So the app will work if any of these modes of Location Service are on.
I appreciate this is not clear for users, but this is android by design.

> So if the improvement is that it initially tries location services and
> perhaps falls back to discovering it based on IP (like it does on the
> website) would massively help.

The details improvements are:
1. Profiles/IdPs with redirects set in CAT are now supported in the discovery 
process.
2. The frequency that location services are checked and updated has been 
increased/improved.
3. The feedback if location services are on/off, and if sufficient accuracy 
on location is available has been added/improved.
4. Profiles found in SCAD now request the correct locale from CAT website 
during discovery.
5. The version of android on the device is now used to get the specific 
android version eap-config file, if it exists on CAT website.

GEOIP has been added as a feature request, and the cat.eduroam.org website 
has an undocumented API call to support this.

I will push this up the list of priorities for the next release, as it has 
been asked for a couple of times now.

Gareth.

> 
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> Mohamed
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ayres G.J. 
> > [mailto:g.j.ayres AT swansea.ac.uk]
> > Sent: 26 February 2016 12:02
> > To: 
> > cat-users AT lists.geant.org
> > Subject: [[cat-users]] android eduroamCAT app update
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > I would like to make you aware that the latest beta of the Android
> > eduroamCAT app has been pushed to production on Play today.
> > So users with the app installed will see it update automatically in the
> coming
> > days.
> > (New version is 1.1.18)
> >
> > The main updates are:
> > Translation added for Czech, Polish, French, Greek, Croatian, Spanish.
> > Fixed the marshmallow (android 6) bug/change which blocks programmatic
> > removal of manually created eduroam SSID. Doesn't hang app now, and
> > warns user to remove eduroam profile first.
> > Plus other minor bug fixes.
> >
> > Any problems or feedback with the latest release, please let me and/or the
> > list know.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Gareth Ayres.
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