{"id":493,"date":"2011-07-19T20:15:36","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2011\/07\/19\/project-announcement-uzlgastennetlogin\/"},"modified":"2011-07-19T20:15:36","modified_gmt":"2011-07-19T18:15:36","slug":"project-announcement-uzlgastennetlogin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2011\/07\/19\/project-announcement-uzlgastennetlogin\/","title":{"rendered":"Project announcement: UZLGastennetLogin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One month ago, I bought an android smartphone and a few days later my first app was born: UZLGastennetLogin! =) <\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Note: <\/strong>This app is only useful to people working at or visiting the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uzleuven.be\">University Hospitals Leuven<\/a>. <\/em><\/p>\n<p>At UZLeuven we have a separate network to provide internet access to alien\/untrusted devices: patient, visitor or external company laptops, tablets, smartphones etc. You need a personal access code to access this network though. When you are not logged in, any website you try to access, redirects you to a login portal.<\/p>\n<p>There are 2 problems using this network on a smartphone:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Not all smartphone browsers can display the login page properly, so it is impossible to access the internet.<\/li>\n<li>Every time you turn off your wifi (to save battery) or loose signal (very likely in an elevator), you have to relogin, which is quite time-consuming.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is where the app will come in handy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Detect network changes (without polling)<\/li>\n<li>When UZLeuven guest network is detected, check whether we are logged in, if not login in the background using preconfigured credentials.<\/li>\n<li>Indicate current state through a widget.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first version of the app allows only manual login, but it already saves you from using the webinterface and re-entering your credentials over and over again. Today, I published it on the market.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/market.android.com\/details?id=org.gotdns.mattiesworld\"> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.android.com\/images\/brand\/60_avail_market_logo2.png\"      alt=\"Available in Android Market\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One month ago, I bought an android smartphone and a few days later my first app was born: UZLGastennetLogin! =) Note: This app is only useful to people working at or visiting the University Hospitals Leuven. At UZLeuven we have a separate network to provide internet access to alien\/untrusted devices: patient, visitor or external company &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/2011\/07\/19\/project-announcement-uzlgastennetlogin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Project announcement: UZLGastennetLogin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,15,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coding-excursions","category-mobile","category-uzlgastennetlogin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattiesworld.gotdns.org\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}