CoronaCheck app works with (almost) all Android browsers after update

‘Corona Check? A lot of responsibility for one app,” RTL Nieuws headlined earlier this week. Travelers to European countries can create their corona passport in it and if you visit a festival or nightclub, you will receive the corona certificate. The app does not work without any problems; an important problem with browsers on Android was solved on Friday.

Stiff start for CoronaCheck

After the CoronaCheck app was released last week for the creation of a corona proof or Digital Corona Certificate (DCC), users were showered with problems that played with DigiD. In addition, it turned out that people who had previously been infected and therefore in principle only need one shot with a vaccine and who have had it in the meantime, got stuck when creating the Digital Corona Certificate. That problem has now been solved and that also applies to a browser problem on Android since Wednesday, Tweakers reports.

Limited browser support

Several users have indicated in recent weeks that they cannot log in with DigiD via their standard browser. After logging in via DigiD from the CoronaCheck app, users received a notification that data retrieval had been interrupted. The reports that users received indicated that this may have been due to the busyness of retrieving data from DigiD. In practice, however, it was not the busyness, but the browser used that was the cause of the problem.

Jan Jaap de Groot, one of the developers of the CoronaCheck app for Android, confirms the problem via Github. Only Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox and Samsung Internet were supported in previous CoronaCheck versions. Users without one of the aforementioned browsers, which also applies to beta versions of, for example, Firefox and even Microsoft Edge, were shown the message and were therefore unable to complete the registration of their DCC or corona proof.

It was not a conscious choice, says Ivo Jansch, the software developer who was previously involved in the CoronaMelder app and this time is also working on the CoronaCheck app. Jansch says that a flag in the app was accidentally wrong, so not all browsers were supported.

CoronaCheck version 2.1

An update to the CoronaCheck app with version number 2.1, which has been available in the Google Play Store since Wednesday, fixes the problem and allows you to log in to DigiD via different browsers. It is not yet known whether all browsers that work on Android are now also supported. If this is not the case, then the ‘selection’ of supported browsers has in any case become wider. Later on, the use of the browser should become superfluous – it will then be possible to log in directly on your phone via the DigiD app.