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Breezy Weather is a free and open-source Android weather app, forked from Geometric Weather, adding new features, sources, modernizing code, fixing bugs, updating dependencies for security reasons, etc., while keep having a smooth user and developer experience in mind.
Features
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Weather data
- Daily and hourly forecasts up to 16 days
- Temperature
- Air quality
- Wind
- UV index
- Precipitation
- Feels like temperature
- Hourly forecasts
- Humidity / Dew point
- Pressure
- Cloud cover
- Visibility
- Precipitation in the next hour
- Air quality
- Pollen & Mold
- Ephemeris (Sun & Moon)
- Severe weather and precipitation alerts
- Real-time weather conditions
- Temperature
- Feels like
- Wind
- UV index
- Humidity
- Dew point
- Atmospheric pressure
- Visibility
- Cloud cover
- Ceiling
- Daily and hourly forecasts up to 16 days
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Multiple weather sources
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Large selection of home screen widgets for at-a-glance information
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Live wallpaper
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Custom icon packs
- Geometric Weather icon packs
- Chronus Weather icon packs
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Automatic dark mode
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Looking for radar? Check out this document
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Free and Open Source
- No proprietary blobs/dependencies (versions 5.0.0-alpha and later)
- Releases generated by GitHub actions, guaranteeing it matches the source code
- Fully works with Open-Meteo (FOSS source)
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Privacy-friendly
- No personal data collected by the app (link to app privacy policy)
- Multiple sources are available, with links to their privacy policies for transparency
- Current location is optional and not added by default
- If using current location, an IP location service can be used instead of GPS to send less accurate coordinates to weather source
- No trackers/automatic crash reporters
Note: If the link isn’t working for you or if you can’t find the app, update the default F-Droid repository in your F-Droid client.
Sweet! Was looking for a weather app that was a tad more indepth and customizable after trying clima for the last few months. Looks good so far for my usecase
I’m trying it. This was the kick in the ass I needed to finally go ahead and get F Droid. Anything else I should be getting from there? I’ve heard of some good apps through it but idk what a sorta “standard” user might be interested in.
Firstly, check if certain apps you use from Google Play are on there too. Some, like Bitwarden, Wikipedia, or Jellyfin, are on fdroid too without Google’s bullshit. Some even have functionality on fdroid that they’re not allowed to have on the Play store.
After that, the Fossify suite of simple apps are very basic, no bullshit, non-Google system apps. Gallery in particular is popular.
If you like Sid Meiers Civilization, search for Unciv.
NewPipe for ad-free YouTube.
TrackerControl will let you block ads system wide. It’s kinda touchy and takes some finagling, though.
Seconding Fossify Gallery, IIRC it’s a fork of the superb Simple Gallery, prior to it being sold to some dodgy data gathering company. It’s great.
Some are, like Bitwarden or Wikipedia or Jellyfin, are on fdroid too without Google’s bullshit. Some even have functionality they’re not allowed to have in the Play store.
To be fair, there are also some features that also rely on Google’s builds. For example, Bitwarden’s “Log in with Device” only works on the Google Play version.
Not seeing bitwarden on fdroid
It’s not in the official F-droid repo
TrackerControl will let you block ads system wide. It’s kinda touchy and takes some finagling, though.
What sort of finagling are we talking? Also, I’ve been using AdAway for the past few weeks with mixed results. Could these tools be used in tandem or is that just silly?
Since they both need the VPN slot, you can’t use both at the same time. Personally, I’m a fan of NextDNS which uses Android’s Private DNS feature to block requests to ad- and tracking servers.
Heliboard (keyboard) just released on F-Droid. (Its the continuation of Openboard which is no longer maintained.)
Netgaurd - blocks apps from acessing WiFi or cell. Great for crippling spyware and getting misc apps with background updates to be WiFi only.
I use K-9 Mail for email. Eventually its going to be taken over by Thunderbird to become their long over due mobile client.
I’ve been checking F-droid first for miscilanous utilities I need, such as a .txt editor or PDF viewer.
I’d recommend just taking an hour or so to scroll through all of the recently updated apps, I found a ton of super cool small “utility apps” that way.
Get droidify, I made the switch about 2years ago.
It doesn’t seem able to display in my silly American units. At least not Wind speed or visibility. It would also be amazing to have current temperature, wind, and humidity on a single widget.
The units can be adjusted in Settings > Appearance > Units, or are you missing options there?
That is the very obvious place to have that and yet still I some how missed it. Thanks!
The only thing that has been annoying me is the hourly widget only showing the next 5 hours which is basically useless as it doesnt tell me if its gonna rain during my time out of the house. So i still have to open the app if i want actually useful information.
I just installed this and checked out the widgets. I get that you’re not getting what you are looking for, but I’m impressed with the variety and quality of the widgets they do offer.
This is a quality app.
Oh yeah for sure, its really good :) Its just this one thing, but overall its the best i could find too
Does privacy-friendly imply that other weather apps are not privacy friendly?
Is someone selling my once or twice a day check of the weather?
“oh yes, this individual is only particularly interested in the weather when they’re getting dressed for the day or when weather intensity picks up” - literally describes like everyone.
You think it’s only tracking you when you have it open?
Damn this is a nice looking and very informative app.
As a farmer, I love this app. Great backend and UI, and generally very accurate. This will be the second year I use it to time fieldwork and spraying since the wind information has been spot on.
If you like the interface but the data predictions start to not work, you can investigate and see if they provide any other weather source more accurate for your zone. That’s the beauty of the provider agnostic apps, that their focus goes into the information presentation and the content itself can be swapped into whatever works for you.
Love the app, but have serious issue with widget not updating. I’ve tried all of the supposed fixes due to battery optimization and overzealous OS limiting, but nothing seems to work. I still use the app, just have to tap the icon like some kind of Luddite.
Release and embrace your inner Luddite and throw away the phone altogether.
It’s very nice, but unfortunately is not very navigable on Android TV.
There’s a feature request for this on the GitHub issue tracker, it’s open for contributions: https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather/issues/566
Thanks!
@ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world Maybe include a link to Breezy Weather’s installation instructions in your post?
This looks very cool. I love that the rain always falls down the way even as you tilt your phone left or right, that’s a lovely touch.
Where is the forecast data coming from?
Edit: Found it in the app description: Sources Available worldwide weather sources:
- Open-Meteo
- AccuWeather¹
- MET Norway¹
- OpenWeatherMap¹²
- Pirate Weather¹³
- HERE¹³
- Météo France¹
- Danmarks Meteorologiske Institut (DMI)¹
I can’t speak for other countries, but for the U.S, all weather apps get the majority of their data from the National Weather Service. This includes apps like AccuWeather. The NWS publishes all weather data free and open, so it’s likely this app gets U.S. based weather information from there.
I got this a few days ago. Previously I was using Geometric Weather, but then in Feb or so it got stuck. I’m very happy that this app (or rather the fork) is now maintained again!
Add 3x1 “daily” widget, set view style to tile, change subtitle data to custom and paste this line on the field
$cuv$ $cps$ $ch$ $cv$ $0ss$ $0dp$ $1dp$Been using breezy weather for a few moneths so far, I really like it. Im using the daily tile and the clock+daily 4x2 widgets (I have stacked them) and I get almost every info I want.
This is the app I have. Quick question:
Why doesn’t the widget update itself?
