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The market for this product is governments who stubbornly refuse to use the exposure notifications framework because they think they know better. It’s a pile of

The market for this product is governments who stubbornly refuse to use the exposure notifications framework because they think they know better. It’s a pile of trash that drains the battery, particularly on older phones. https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe/mobile-ios/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aclosed https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe/mobile-ios/issues?q=is%3Aiss...

senectus1 6y ago
is Herald the one Covid-safe in Australia uses? That thing utterly murders the battery on new phones as well. I have a Note 10 + 5G and my wife has the S20 Plus and running that means having to recharge the battery multiple times a day or risk running around without any phone. Sometimes my wife has noticed that the battery will go DOWN while being charged. so we uninstalled the app and the problem has gone. I was an advocate for it when they were talking about releasing it... but as usual the Australian Gov is technically incompetent.
- steve_taylor 6y ago
  Yes, Australia’s COVIDSafe app uses Herald.
  - mcbain 6y ago
    On iOS it only switched to Herald in v2.0 which - according to my phone - was installed 2 days ago.
    - steve_taylor 6y ago
      That’s when I finally uninstalled it.
lloeki 6y ago
After a first app failure (stopcovid19), France uses the ROBERT protocol in its second app TousAntiCOVID (which is just a rebrand+slight pivot into focused news); apparently the protocol is joint-developed between Fraunhofer (Germany) and INRIA (France). The irony is that Germany uses iOS contact tracing, so as I live near the border I miss detection of a high vector. Scratch that, I -would miss-, it I used the app, which I don’t because it has to be opened, manually toggled on, and stay in the foreground to do any contact tracing. Even if it were not for the battery use, the power of defaults means that the app is rarely activated by people, (when it’s installed at all since it’s not listed in the initial iOS alert you get and pick France). Desperate posters “here I activate TousAntiCOVID” are being placated in shopping malls and stuff. It’s ridiculous. https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19/accueil https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19/accueil
- joachim4 6y ago
  But France showed repeatedly that they don't understand science, do want to listen to it, and don't want to learn from it. From the masks to the current christmas holidays who will create a 3rd wave, they proved they don't handle this virus very well. Add to that a bit of science nationalism from the De Gaulle era, and we ended up with that app.
- wut42 6y ago
  ROBERT was used in the first app too.
captn3m0 6y ago
India: https://github.com/nic-delhi/AarogyaSetu_Android/issues/385 https://github.com/nic-delhi/AarogyaSetu_Android/issues/385

senectus1 6y ago

is Herald the one Covid-safe in Australia uses? That thing utterly murders the battery on new phones as well. I have a Note 10 + 5G and my wife has the S20 Plus and running that means having to recharge the battery multiple times a day or risk running around without any phone. Sometimes my wife has noticed that the battery will go DOWN while being charged. so we uninstalled the app and the problem has gone. I was an advocate for it when they were talking about releasing it... but as usual the Australian Gov is technically incompetent.

steve_taylor 6y ago
Yes, Australia’s COVIDSafe app uses Herald.
- mcbain 6y ago
  On iOS it only switched to Herald in v2.0 which - according to my phone - was installed 2 days ago.
  - steve_taylor 6y ago
    That’s when I finally uninstalled it.

lloeki 6y ago

After a first app failure (stopcovid19), France uses the ROBERT protocol in its second app TousAntiCOVID (which is just a rebrand+slight pivot into focused news); apparently the protocol is joint-developed between Fraunhofer (Germany) and INRIA (France). The irony is that Germany uses iOS contact tracing, so as I live near the border I miss detection of a high vector. Scratch that, I -would miss-, it I used the app, which I don’t because it has to be opened, manually toggled on, and stay in the foreground to do any contact tracing. Even if it were not for the battery use, the power of defaults means that the app is rarely activated by people, (when it’s installed at all since it’s not listed in the initial iOS alert you get and pick France). Desperate posters “here I activate TousAntiCOVID” are being placated in shopping malls and stuff. It’s ridiculous. https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19/accueil https://gitlab.inria.fr/stopcovid19/accueil

joachim4 6y ago
But France showed repeatedly that they don't understand science, do want to listen to it, and don't want to learn from it. From the masks to the current christmas holidays who will create a 3rd wave, they proved they don't handle this virus very well. Add to that a bit of science nationalism from the De Gaulle era, and we ended up with that app.
wut42 6y ago
ROBERT was used in the first app too.

captn3m0 6y ago

India: https://github.com/nic-delhi/AarogyaSetu_Android/issues/385 https://github.com/nic-delhi/AarogyaSetu_Android/issues/385