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AU-COVIDSafe
mobile-android
Kotlin2020–2020
AU-COVIDSafe / mobile-android

mobile-android

COVIDSafe android app

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What it is

COVIDSafe android app

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Where it is used

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by month2 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2020-05-13 01:12:35 UTC to 2020-12-21 10:51:17 UTC.

012020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 commentsMay 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsAug 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsDec 2020

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
May 20202020-05-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC110
Jun 20202020-06-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Jul 20202020-07-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Aug 20202020-08-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Sep 20202020-09-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 20202020-10-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 20202020-11-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 20202020-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

2 sources
hiharryhere·Dec 21, 2020
I used the Australian COVIDSafe ios app today which uses herald. The only way it can keep the app receiving Bluetooth while in the background is to request location permissions and show the blue ios bar at the top that says “COVIDSafe is using your location”. It’s a hack. Nobody seems to spell that out in the media coverage about it. Yes it works some of the time, but only under very specific circumstances. Someone needs to tell it straight. It doesn’t work, we should just use the platform provided apis and be done with it. Edit: this is an excellent summary of what’s wrong with the Australian app: https://github.com/AU-COVIDSafe/mobile-android/issues/30
In Herald – Bluetooth contact tracing protocol

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