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Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather
(f-droid.org)
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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
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So it doesn't feel better than the typical bloated half working must pay now and "sacrifice your first born" app?
I think they mean it doesn't feel like it was designed in 1999
In my experience, FOSS apps are not the alternative, they are what any app should be. They look, feel and work better than any paid app, yet people continue to call them "alternatives"
They're often "alternatives" to significantly more polished and popular apps that have names that people actually recognize. That's why they're called alternatives.
You could just as easily say the mainstream app is an "alternative" to the FOSS one, and it still doesn't mean either one is necessarily better than the other, but most people wouldn't know WTF you're talking about.
Lack of polish stems from open source apps having engineers write the code without necessarily having input from a UX designer, would you think?
Meanwhile if you have a paid app, you can use your budget to hire UX/QA etc.?
I mean you can attribute it to any number of things. Most of it being probably lack of funding.
Someone or several someones are volunteering their time to create this, and may not take the additional time required to make it "polished", and only enough time to make it functional.
Heroes, they are. <3 FOSS devs
Any idea how many UX designers help with open source? KDE looks way better than windows (IMHO) and having used it for 20 years I just seriously wonder why people pay hundreds of dollars for windows crap while they can have something better for free