Comment by shaky-carrousel
1 day ago
A really good Android open source alternative is Breezy Weather: https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather
1 day ago
A really good Android open source alternative is Breezy Weather: https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather
I have been using breezy weather and I like it overall. But after reading this article I can't help but be bugged off that the information density in the main page is significantly worse here than in Dark Sky. Dark Sky showed hourly forecast with a 2h resolution. This is a negligible difference in precision IMHO (weather predictions are inherently imprecise anyway - and a more precise graph could be - is - one tap away), but it allows to show a time range that is twice as wide! On my screen, breezy weather is able to show me the forecast for the next 5h until I scroll - this is OK, but it's annoying. The hours are very spaced apart, and there is a 1h resolution. With tighter spacing and 2h resolution, 12 or 16 hours could be displayed at once - which is far more likely to cover the time I am going to spend outside, which as the article states, is the main reason why I might want to check an hourly forecast anyway.
All the other android apps mentioned here have the same issue.
I might try to open an issue in their GH, or even a PR... A toggle for "denser graphs" and a setting for hourly resolution could do wonders.
I prefer Bura[1] over it, Breezy doesn't communicate the daily things I need (and that the link talks about) as well for me
1: https://github.com/davidtakac/bura/
Breezy Weather and Weather Master right now are IMO the two best open source weather apps on Android
https://github.com/PranshulGG/WeatherMaster