eduroam CAT

GÉANT Association

About this app

If you are using Android 8 or higher, please use the geteduroam app instead.
This app is preserved in the Play store only for users on Android 7 and below, and is not actively maintained.

A tool to allow users to configure their device for eduroam wireless networks. This tool requires a configuration file from your home institution in order acquire the configuration settings needed. Due to limitations in the Android OS, the application needs to set up a screen lock if none is already set. The configuration file is in a standardised file format and can be obtained from eduroam Configuration Assistant Tool deployments (such as https://cat.eduroam.org and others). The tool also provides some status information on the eduroam connection.

Ratings and reviews

App ist rubbish. The config search feature doesn't work at all. As a workaround, install the app, go to the eduroam Website in a browser and download the config file from there. When you tap on the download, the app will open it and install the configuration. The search feature on the website is also poor. My institution was not found, so I typed in my city and the institution appeared in a list of all institutions in that city. To repeat... HORRIBLE APP!

It worked, but the journey was tedious. Local area search is broken and defaults to London universities. Managed to manually search (on mobile data) for my university and found it, though the "distance away" number was vastly incorrect and the wrong logo was shown. Still, I was able to successfully log in and install my profile effortlessly. Shame that this app has a terrible UI and broken features, otherwise it could be far more useful!

Unbelievably terrible app. The "nearby institutions" feature doesn't work at all, manual search is extremely user unfriendly. When I type the name of the institution into the searchbar, it returns different results each time within seconds. Also there's generally at least one institution with wrong logo displayed (not wrongly set, just wrongly displayed in the list), which means I can't rely on logos and have to read the whole names. Also, the way the logos are rendered in the list is really fascinating, haven't seen a design this bad since the 90s. All in all, everytime I have to use the app (and I actually have to support a few hundred users who need to use it from time to time), I feel the need to throw my phone over the rainbow.

What's new

Fix for manual search issue 39 (github)