The Wi-Fi sign-in page, signed in for you.
Your gym, hotel or café remembers your phone but not your login. Hop On remembers it, and types it in before you've put your bag down.
Teach it once. Then it's done.
Hop On doesn't know your gym's password and never will unless you type it. It watches you log in one time, then does the same thing you did.
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Log in inside Hop On
Next time the sign-in page appears, open it in Hop On instead of the usual pop-up and log in as normal. Hop On notes what you filled in and what you pressed.
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Hop On keeps watch
Whenever your phone joins that Wi-Fi again and the sign-in page comes back, Hop On notices, even with the screen off.
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You're online
It fills in the page the way you did, checks the internet actually works, and tells Android to stop asking. One quiet notification, no taps.
Install
Hop On isn't on the Play Store yet, so Android will ask you to allow the install. That's one extra tap.
- Download the app on your Android phone.
- Open the downloaded file. If Android says your browser isn't allowed to install apps, tap Settings, turn on Allow from this source, then go back.
- Tap Install, then open Hop On and allow notifications so it can tell you when it has signed you in.
- At your gym or hotel, tap Add network and log in once. That's the teaching done.
You can check what you downloaded: the app is signed with a certificate whose SHA-1 fingerprint is 69:A8:92:13:3D:46:D7:12:3B:84:C3:F0:06:08:C9:6F:0C:7F:9D:60. Updates will only install if they carry the same signature.
Questions
- Is it really free?
- Yes. No ads, no subscription, no "pro" version. It was built to fix one annoying gym, and it's shared in case your gym is annoying too.
- Where does my password go?
- Nowhere. It's stored on your phone, encrypted with a key that never leaves the phone's secure hardware, and it is only ever sent to the same sign-in page you taught Hop On, on that same Wi-Fi. There's no Hop On server. See the privacy policy for the full picture.
- Which sign-in pages work?
- Pages with a form: a password, a username, a tick box, a "Connect" button, or any mix of those. Pages that text you a code, email you a link or want a Facebook login are out, because they need you each time.
- Why does it ask for location?
- Android only tells apps the name of the Wi-Fi network if they can use location. Hop On uses the name to label your networks and nothing else. You can say no; it still works.
- What if the page changes or the password is wrong?
- You get one notification. Tapping it opens the page inside Hop On so you can log in by hand, and that becomes the new lesson.
- iPhone?
- Not possible: iOS doesn't let apps do this without a special entitlement from Apple.