Google announces integration of Ukrainian government official air raid warning system into Android



In order to support Ukraine invaded by Russia, Google has stopped displaying Ukraine's traffic information from Google Maps and published a report summarizing the actual situation of cyber attacks by hacking groups supported by the Russian government . Google announced on March 10, 2022 local time that it would expand its support for Ukraine, and announced that it would incorporate a new air raid warning system, Air Raid Alerts, into Android.

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On March 4, 2022, Google advertised that the Ukrainian government and Ukrainian developers have collaborated to create an air raid warning app ' Повітряна тривога ' on Google Play.

And on March 10th, Google announced plans to follow suit with the direct integration of 'Повітряна тривога' into Android. Google 'at the request and support of the Ukrainian government, will deploy an Android-integrated air raid warning system for Ukrainian citizens, which complements the country's existing air raid warning system and is already by the Ukrainian government. It is based on the alerts being delivered, 'he said, explaining that the plan is to integrate the official Ukrainian government air raid alert system into Android.

Google plans to deploy this air raid warning system as a Google Play service . The system itself has already been released as a standalone app called 'Повітряна тривога', so it is expected to work on any Android device. Android is known as an OS with a much lower update rate than iOS, but the air raid warning system is delivered as a Google Play service, so if a user updates any app, it will be added immediately. It seems that it will be different.

The announcement to integrate the Ukrainian air raid warning system into Android was also announced on the Twitter account by Android engineering vice president Dave Burke, 'utilizing the low delay warning mechanism built for earthquake warning . It is explained. This low-latency warning mechanism for earthquakes allows you to generate your own earthquake alerts by crowdsourcing accelerometer data from millions of Android smartphones. Since the system cannot detect air raids, the air raid warning system announced this time uses information obtained from the official warning system of the Ukrainian government.



'The system is rolling out today and will be available for all Android smartphones in Ukraine in the next few days. The engineering product UX team helped us reach the solution in a short order. Thank you. '

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