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yeah, I'm just trying it out right now on my college wifi. It also says <unknown ssid> and I'm also on Android.

I have identified it as an issue with Android 8.1+, will submit a fix to the Play store shortly.

Pie requires coarse location permission for accessing SSID.

Yup, that was the issue! I just launched a new version (1.9) which fixes this.