Comment by acemarke
3 years ago
This looks great! I have loved the UI of Dark Sky (to the point of continuing to use the "Darker Sky" modified APK for Android, which is now due to die off in the next few days). So, seeing a replacement for the desktop site is wonderful. Also, I did try out the "Add to Home" instructions for mobile, and that works nicely!
I was about to comment that the multi-value graph at the top of the page was distracting and taking up space. Looking at it again, I can see a bit more use out of it, although perhaps still not my first preference. Comparing it vs the current Dark Sky site, I do prefer the existing large current temperature value as the initial visual focus.
The other thing I love about Dark Sky is the visual appearance and the resolution of the precipitation radar map on mobile, including the timing of animating the radar updates over time and the coloring of the base globe. I've tried out a bunch of other Android apps and haven't found anything that _quite_ replicates that. If you could reasonably replicate that, it'd be really neat.
Thanks for putting this together!
Nice to hear that the instructions for home icon are working well on Android as I only tested the ones on iOS :D
I agree on the weekly graph being a bit of a distraction. I thought about hiding it especially on mobile. We had a snowstorm and power outage because of strong winds over the holidays. I found it useful to get a general sense of safety with regards to wind speed/gust (up to 110km/h!) and precipitations. In the end, I decided to leave it there initially and maybe confine it to its own section later from the general feedback.
Your feedback on the map is great. I've held off on working on it now since it's a considerable effort and I don't have an API ready to consume that gives that. I wasn't really relying on it from the darksky website but it's definitely on my mind. Other than looking cute, I think there's good value in the precipitation overlay too.
Sure. I just spent a few minutes poking back through the other weather apps I've got installed on my phone to see how their radar maps look. The two I like best are Windy and Ventusky. Both feel pretty readable in terms of background layer and cloud colors, and have fairly good animation of the clouds. Not sure where they're drawing that virtual imagery from.