More and more autonomous communities are requesting the COVID passport to enter restaurants, nightclubs, gyms, residences or health centers. So, in order to prevent unvaccinated people from accessing some, we will always need to wear our COVID certificate for when they ask us to enter a business.
One of the most comfortable ways to wear your COVID passport always on top is with the mobile. We can take it in PDF, with Google Pay or other applications, but today we will see another more accessible way: take the COVID passport in an Android widget.
To get COVID passport on the home screen This is a very good option, because it saves us from having to open applications. By simply unlocking the mobile screen, we can access the QR of the COVID certificate directly from the home screen. This alternative is the most practical for the elderly of our family, because at most by swiping the home screen to one side, they will be able to show their COVID passport when they enter a bar, restaurant or health center.
Previous step: download the PDF
To add a widget with our COVID passport on our Android device the first thing we need to do is download the COVID certificate. The easiest and fastest option is to download the COVID passport in PDF format.
Intermediate step: add the PDF to a Passbook
After the PDF is downloaded to our mobile, now we can use the official Aena SpTH app to convert the PDF so that we can easily add a COVID passport in a Passbook compatible application.
Once the application is installed SpTH on our Android device we have to move forward through the home screens until we reach the option “Check compatibility”. By clicking on this option, it will ask us to touch “I am human”. If the application is compatible with our mobile, we touch Accept.
On the main page of SpTH we have to go My trips, Then in Set CCDs and finally click on the ‘+’ icon (Add). There we can scan the QR code or download the PDF file of our COVID certificate. We put an alias, for example COVID, and we already have our COVID certificate installed in SpTH.
If we click on COVID, or on the name we gave it, the certificate will open showing our vaccination data and the QR code, but here the option that interests us is “Add to portfolio”.
By pressing Add to portfolio and after selecting the language, we can add the booklet of our COVID passport in one of the compatible applications. The SpTH app will ask us which app to use. Here we want to install the ONE Wallet or PassWallet application first, as they will allow us add a widget with our COVID certificate.
A wallet
For me A wallet is the best application I have found to add a widget to our COVID passport, since it is the one that allows us display the QR code in a larger size
When we select ONE Wallet from SpTH, our certificate is imported and it will open automatically. In your editing options we can change logo, background color and passport name. By default it will try to display a barcode that doesn’t exist, so we have to drag it to show the QR.
Once our COVID passport is registered in One Wallet, we need to go to the home screen of our Android device to add a widget. We do a long press on an empty area of the screen, we select the widgets option and we click on ONE Wallet widget. We select the COVID card, we activate the QRCODE card type (Very important) and we give To create. We can now add our COVID passport to our home screen and adjust the dimensions of the widget so that the QR code can be seen at a correct size.
PassWallet
If in SpTH we select the application PassWallet, the COVID certificate will open with the selected application and just go back to the home screen and add the “Not Individual Passwallet” Widget. We put it on the screen and we adjust the size so that the QR code is displayed correctly.
With these two applications, we will end up having to open a PDF in which we have to enlarge its QR code or open an application. With the COVID passport in a widget, it will be more accessible, since at most you will only have to slide your finger to change the home screen.
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