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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] 68 points 7 months ago (8 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 54 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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[–] [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] 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] 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] 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] 13 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [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 (3 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.

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

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

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

Does it have beautiful widget for home screen ?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

Multiple, and very customisable

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

Recently discovered it myself. Absolutely excellent.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago

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

[–] [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] 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 (2 children)

Uploading to Google Play involves significantly more work.

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

A lock screen daily or weekly display would make this perfect

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

Been using it for months now. Can recommend.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 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 7 months ago (9 children)

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

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

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

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

Why does it send intermittent notifications stating the update failed?

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

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

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[–] [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] 3 points 7 months ago

any benefits over omWeather?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 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.

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

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

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

Been using it for a while now. Great Weather App

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 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] 10 points 7 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] 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 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.

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