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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 5 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] 1 points 5 months ago

I love the app, though I wish I could set a location for it to check instead of having to leave my location on in order for it to work.

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

How to update default repisitory? I cannot find an option to and Google isn't particularly helpfull.

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

Try searching org.breezyweather in fdroid. For some reason I had to type it exactly like that.

https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather/blob/main/INSTALL.md

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

Thanks that worked for me.

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

Does anyone have issues with the time showing as wrong. It's always 6 hours out for me. Not found out why...

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

I'm case anyone finds this comment this looks to be fixed in v5.2.0

Seems to be: Fix current location keeping old timezone on some sources, when travelling to a different timezone

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

This is neat!

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

wX (on Fdroid) is a bit geekier alternative. It has a textual weather description, links to AFD (Forecast Discussion by a human meteorologist), and fantastic radar features.

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

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.

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

Mine, I add some unicode emojis to make it look nice.
First line for weather details.
Then a blank space, or for alerts if any.
And a calendar line.
💧$ch$ 🧭$cps$ 🌎$l$ @ $ut$
$enter$
⚠️ $als$
$enter$
📆$d$ , 2024 $w$

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

I don't see where I can change it to Tile, or data too custom.

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

At least on my device, you have to pick the Daily 3x1 widget (it's the 3rd for me).

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

Ah! For me it's "Daily 2x1" I don't have the option in 3x1

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

This is great, but for mysterious reasons the icon doesn't appear on either my home screen or in the app tray. I installed the basic apk from github. It does open and it does appear if I go settings:all apps, so it's definitely there.

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

Check under "weather". While the app is called breezy weather, in your app drawer it's simply weather. I hate this so much. Why can't developers follow naming conventions...

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

Thank you, before reading this I ended up reinstalling it and that fixed it for some reason (icon appeared on the home screen like normal). Good catch though.

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

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

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

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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.

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

You think it's only tracking you when you have it open?

[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Lots of weather apps, since they have access to your location, sell that location data to data brokers or use location API services that do.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It got my hyped up when I saw you can have custom sources of weather, but according to github it doesn't support the public Spanish provider, AEMET, so weawow it is for now.

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

@[email protected] Maybe include a link to Breezy Weather's installation instructions in your post?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Breezy weather my beloved 🥰

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

How do I get this app?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

You can either install the F-Droid app store, and use it to download Breezy Weather, or download the APK file directly from GitHub releases. You can also use Obtainium to auto-update the APK from GitHub.

Edit: I just realized that Breezy Weather even has an installation guide: https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather/blob/main/INSTALL.md

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Could you fit more flags in your name? Lmao

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

Yeah no problem

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

Using app it's nice and all just wish I could set it for other cities like I had on my other weather app. Like Yellowstone National Park isn't showing up.

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

I don't know why it doesn't work for you, but I just tried searching for Yellowstone National Park and it showed up. But for some reason it's at the very bottom of the search results.

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

Didn't pull up all. Shows Yellowstone but countries and cities nowhere near the park.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Thank you.

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

It's very nice, but unfortunately is not very navigable on Android TV.

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

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

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

Thanks!

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