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Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather (f-droid.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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 7 months ago (1 children)

Can it show something like a dashboard with forecasts for multiple cities at once?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Yep, it has a widget for that.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

Ive been using it for over a year now and it has been a breeze

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

any benefits over omWeather?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago

But what's wrong with the regular app for weather on my Redmi 13? It seems to work just fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Neat, tossed a widget on my home screen!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Hey, I use this app! It's awesome. They also included lots of information about the air quality measurements, which I appreciated. For example:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Than you very much! I've been using this app for moths and I didn't know this. Cool feature.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Been using it for months now. Can recommend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cool looking app. I wish it was available on Google Play for people not familiar with third party app downloads.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

A lock screen daily or weekly display would make this perfect

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

I'd been using Geometric Weather for many years, and I noticed a few weeks ago that it was misbehaving, not fetching data sometimes. I didn't realise it had not had an update for almost 3 years!

I had switched to Google's weather app, but maybe I'll switch to this instead. Thanks for the heads-up.

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

Is this "breezy weather" in the google play store? It looks similar but that's an app with 100M users, doesn't sound Ned...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

I installed mine from fdroid. Just searched on the play store and couldn't see the same one on there or even anything with the same name.

The icon is a yellow Pinwheel on a blue background.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

What's with all of the permissions?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago

The release notes mention why they request each one.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My weather app of choice for about a year now. Really nice interface and solid performance.

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I guess I'll keep this in the back of my mind, but I already migrated over to QuickWeather when Geometric Weather went unsupported. It stinks that I can't swipe between locations anymore, but the built-in radar and higher information density outweigh switching back for me.

[–] [email protected] 68 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Best weather app I've used. FOSS but unlike most FOSS weather apps, it doesn't FEEL like your typical FOSS alternative.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago

I discovered this after giving up on the BBC weather app because it wants me to sign in.

It's been really good, I love the details and it's been getting regular updates. Recommended.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 7 months ago

I've been using it for a while now and I love it. FOSS and pretty and customisable.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

How is the report generated andwhere is the data sourced from? I often have huge issues with weather reports being very wrong or not up to date fast enough to be useful so I end up just using the national report but their app is terrible.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago

You get to choose. I use NWS

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Recently discovered it myself. Absolutely excellent.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

I was searching for a new weather app a few months ago and landed on Breezy - definitely the best one currently out there for Android!

[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago (1 children)

My favorite feature is the 1-row weekly weather widget for my home screen. I have that next to its 1x1 widget for everything I want at a glance using minimal space.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Customized widgets is my number 1 desire for most apps

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 7 months ago (3 children)

it also supports Gadgetbridge integration, so I get the weather data from it on my watch.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Here's the TIL I need.

Thanks noodlejetski (c:

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Same, thanks original commenter!

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