Country restriction on Google Play store about swisscovid-app-android HOT 15 CLOSED

I have 2 phone numbers on my phone. A French and a Swiss. Yes... I'm a "frontalier". My phone and Google account are configured in France. How can I install SwissCovid app? Looks like I will need an app when I'm in Switzerland... and another one when I'm in France...

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Would you mind sharing what the legal problem was?

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I could download the app from the German Google Play store. Well done!

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Thank you for the feedback! We are aware of the issue and are currently checking if we can resolve this.

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Hi,
I installed the SwissCovid app, but it looks as if it goes dormant as soon as I use other apps.
So today for the whole day it says 0s in use.
Did you already encounter that?

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@gravax It's not depending on your phone's numbers, but on the Google Play country defined for your account. Details on changing it can be found there:
https://support.google.com/googleplay/answer/7431675?hl=en
Given that you can change the country only once per year, visitors, cross-border commuters, and tourists are mostly excluded from using this app, unless this restriction is lifted.

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visitors, cross-border commuters, and tourists are mostly excluded from using this app, unless this restriction is lifted.

Who happens to be very mobile users and should be in the scope of the app.

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Thank you for the feedback! We are aware of the issue and are currently checking if we can resolve this.

What is the difficulty? It's just a simple check mark in the Google developer console when publishing an app.

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Was not a technical but a legal problem ;-) But the app will be available in all countries for the public launch.

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Has this been resolved, ahead of the public launch?

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To the best of my knowledge, Google so far only allowed one app per country/state. I'm looking forward to check the German Play store for the Swiss app on Thursday.

Given that @simonroesch called it a "legal problem", I would also be curious to learn what legal action convinced Google to give up on geofencing.

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Given that you mention geofencing, do you know if such a problem would occur between say the German and Dutch Play stores? Are there EU regulations that would make this a non-problem outside of Switzerland?

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@simonroesch I would recommend to reopen this issue and keep it open until publicly solved.

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there is also a discussion on the german app github corona-warn-app/cwa-app-android#478

maybe the teams could coordinate to solve the issue?

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No legal problems with "Immuni" from Italy, apparently. It's available in all country's PlayStore.

@beckm-ethz
Google doesn't require geofencing or restrict the contact tracing apps to certain markets in the PlayStore. The one-app-per-country-policy is accomplished by certificates. Enforcing it only through PlayStore would mean that sideloaded applications could access the API, which is not the case.

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