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Central repository to collect community feature requests and improvements. The CWA development ends on May 31, 2023. You still can warn other users until April 30, 2023. More information:
https://coronawarn.app/en/faq/#ramp_down
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Display the number of current contacts in range #262

Open kno10 opened 3 years ago

kno10 commented 3 years ago

Yes I know this likely needs to be done by Google and Apple. You can talk to them, they won't even answer our emails.

Right know, we do not know if the app is reliably registering contacts.

Because there is no indicator whether the app currently sees any other user. The app needs to get an indicator that says "3 contacts currently in range" or similar. I understand there are some privacy objections to this. But without this indication, we do not know if the app and Bluetooth is working. Maybe there is some metal blocking the bluetooth signal. Maybe someone turned off bluetooth without realizing that this disables the app. When meeting with people, we need to be able to verify that the contact is registered by the app.

Otherwise it makes more sense to use a paper diary.

Internal Tracking ID: EXPOSUREAPP-3671

achisto commented 3 years ago

You can actually already check whether your phone is sending its signature by opening covid-lens.github.io on another device. If it shows more than one ID just move your phone further away or cover it with something and watch for a formerly strong signal decreasing in strength.

I'm not sure however if something similar could be implemented directly into CWA.

Ein-Tim commented 3 years ago

Related to: #5

heinezen commented 3 years ago

Hello @kno10 ,

Thank you for the suggestion. We created an internal Jira ticked with ID EXPOSUREAPP-3671 for your request. The developers and the RKI will now review the suggestion and discussion if and how it is going to be implemented. We will notify everyone about updates on the current status in this thread.

Regards, CH

Corona-Warn-App Open Source Team