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

Eduroam is a great concept with a terrible execution. The whole system is buggy and usually results with organisations just defaulting to using no certificate, making the connection unsecure. Furthemore, the app is so bad. The local search doesn't work, the downloaded/installed profiles break constantly and need removing and redownloading. It DOES work, in the end, after you mess with it for 20 minutes and on the 5th attempt of doing nothing differently. The profile WILL break in < 14 days.

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.

What's new

Fix for manual search issue 39 (github)