eduroam CAT

GÉANT Association

About this app

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

totally useless: -Crash every time you load a configuration, it is impossible to go back to provide your credentials -It is unusable and counter intuitive -Search functionality is a great example of terrible design, it doesn't work and the GUI is annoying. Remove it from the store and go back to the design board, start over, is the best advice you will get.

Easily the worst app I've ever had the pleasure of using. Words can't explain how poor the GUI is, extremely confusing. The nearby feature doesn't even work even after asking for perms for your location so you have to manual search. Manual search takes tens of seconds and took a few tries to find my school. There's two ways to install the config, online or in the app. BOTH are a pain and both failed to work. I've tried multiple times, reinstalled the app 3 times. Cleared the apps memory and tried again. The app says everything is OK yet I'm still disconnected. I've watched youtube videos following everything exactly but no luck. Been at this for little over an hour and still no luck (to connect to WIFI....] in 2019). Fix your app eduroam.

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)