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Source code of the Beta of the NHS COVID-19 iOS app

7 mentions on Hacker News by 7 people: 1 story, 6 comments · first 2020-05-07 · latest 2020-06-18

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  1. …implemented the "background discovery of an iPhone" feature. It wasn't that clever, it didn't work: https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA/issues/2
  2. Just making something public is not enough though. The UK made their app public https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA But app only, none of the server-side projects. Germany and Italy https://github.com/immuni-app also made public…
  3. …on day of the binary "going live" to the public https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA
  4. …rare for the public sector - the UK Gov and NCSC are really leading on this sort of stuff. [1] https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA/blob/master/SE...
  5. …should roll over this. [1]: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/07/uk-coronavirus... [2]: https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA/issues/2
  6. …19 tracing app using Bluetooth, and the source code for the apps are now open source [0] [1] [0] https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-iOS-BETA [1] https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA
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    UK’s NHS Covid-19 App
    story by milen · 2020-05-07 · 23 comments