Thank you for volunteering to test Badger Watch. Here's some information about the app.
After you've read this and had a go with the app itself, have a look at what to test and how to provide feedback.
Badger Watch exists to guide you through the process of understanding and documenting badger persecution and related forms of wildlife crime, help you gather relevant evidence, and ensure incidents are brought to the attention of Badger Trust, and where appropriate to the police and local badger groups.
The main way the app does this is by taking you through a series of information screens and questions. When appropriate, a report is generated based on your answers to these questions, which you can then review and send to Badger Trust by email.
Until further notice, anything you do in the app and any report you produce is for testing purposes only. You can therefore safely experiment with hypothetical reports and don't need to worry about anything you do in the app causing someone to believe an actual crime has occurred or that badgers are in danger.
Please don't use the app to report real incidents yet! If you have real information you would like to bring to the attention of Badger Trust while the app is in this phase of testing, please use the Reporting Centre on their website. During testing, your fake reports are sent to Badger Trust and to the app developer, but when we start receiving real reports they'll only go to Badger Trust plus anyone else you choose to copy in.
We will notify you when this changes and reporting goes live and remove the notices in the app that say it's in testing mode.
Due to a design decision made early in the project, the app does not send reports directly to a server, but helps you prepare them to be sent by email. This means you will need to have an email app set up on your device.
Changes and upgrades to the app are rolled out regularly. Please ensure your device is set to update its apps automatically so you can get these promptly.
The app is intended for use on iPhones and Android-based smartphones. It should also work on iPads and Android-based tablets, but has not been designed specifically for these devices. This is because most tablets are used on Wi-Fi and are less likely to be taken out into the field, and we don't anticipate as many users on tablets as on smartphones. The visual appearance of the app may therefore look odd on a large tablet screen, but it should still function.
Although tablet integration is a not a current development priority, if something that works on your phone does not work on your tablet, or if its appearance makes it impossible to use, please feed this back, including via our issue tracker (#14).
Page last updated 22 November 2022