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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

  • 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
  • Multiple weather sources

  • Large selection of home screen widgets for at-a-glance information

  • Live wallpaper

  • Custom icon packs

    • Geometric Weather icon packs
    • Chronus Weather icon packs
  • Automatic dark mode

  • Looking for radar? Check out this document

  • 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)
  • 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.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Just found it and managed to load it into Niagara launcher.

Excellent looking, but it's only been running for 5 mins so I can't really judge it ;-)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Great app, just wish they had a radar.

Also for my American brethren that also use Freedom units, you might have to set speed, temperature, volume, pressure measurements to something our smooth brains can understand:

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Why does it send intermittent notifications stating the update failed?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

I ended up just disabling that notifications channel cuz I don't care that much it it fails in the background.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I had to mess around in Android/Samsung settings to give it permissions to run in the background.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

That's probably why that happened to me, on Android as well. I set the location setting to work only while using the app. I think since I turned off notifications, it stopped sending the failed update message.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does it have any widgets lines the cure day/time/weather or 5 day outlook.

I'm one of those people that would rather have a weather widget on my home screen than opening an app every time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yes it has tons of widget option with clock + weather being one option and weekly weather being another

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Glad I saw this post today, downloaded and love it straight away! So clean and exactly what I wanted out of a FOSS weather app.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The application sounds very good, it is open source and has good functionality, but… is it true that it does not have proprietary dependencies? Because if I'm not mistaken they must depend on a meteorological center and I doubt that it is free material

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

They have three choices of API to use. One of which is NOAA whose data license is compatible with F-Droid's free network resources definition

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, they build several versions: google play version, fdroid version, and standard version (I am assuming distributed by izzydroid).

You all of them are available on github, and you can choose which one you want to get by using obtainium or download from specific app store / repos.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

It's the best weather app for Android. Beautiful design and great optimization.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Nice app. I'm currently using the yr app from the Norwegian weather services. It would be great if that API could be implemented.

I only have one choice for weather data as it stands.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

From what I see, MET Norway is an option for weather sources, is that the right one?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

It looks like it's excluded from the F-Droid build.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It only gives me the one option in the app. But MET Norway should be it...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

For me it's when I add a new location, then I get to choose what sources to pull from

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but there are not as much options there as the 'help me choose' GitHub link suggests. Open météo is the only option.

Will have to look into this later.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Very strange. I installed through the neo store a week or so ago and have a couple options

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I'll try the neo store version later and see if it differs somehow. In the documentation there's some take about 'flavors' of the same app, which is a bit bizarre imho.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

The version is 5.1.8_fdroid, which is the same one I also see in fdroid

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In neo store it allowed me to install the Izzy version, which lets me select multiple sources. It's weird not to have that in every install, though

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Definitely strange... Glad it worked out, though

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Been using it for a while now. Great Weather App

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Ohh I'm so glad. I was on geometric weather and it stopped working a few weeks ago. It's a beautiful app.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Downloaded and using now instead of "Tiny weather forecast germany"

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Does it have beautiful widget for home screen ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Multiple, and very customisable

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Tried it, decided to stay with Weawow which is beyond excellent.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Best weather app since DarkSky. I love the notification of impending rain! Very helpful in Belgium where it rains half of the year sporadically.

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