I am a recent android convert, and wasn't a decent weather app. I am coming from bb and used berryweather. I entry my home location to be found via gps and update at regular intervals. But I also wasn't to have a bunch of cities saved to scroll through.
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^^^ 1st of all, welcome to the Android World.
I have beautiful widgets which is pretty cool.
It has a weather widget which shows the weather like the one on HTC Phones.
Just Google it, Yahoo it or Bing it.
I'm quite happy using the GenieWidget.apk pulled from the nexus one, this gives you 3 widget options to add to your homescreen, news, weather, and news with weather combined.
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Beautiful Widgets coalited with The Weather Channel works great.
another BW fan here!
I like weatherbug elite...it does what you are describing!
Beautiful Widgets for me, great app and very customizable.
Fancy Widgets... all the way mate.. it looks amazing and its free
since you're on ur XDA app ... maybe this link will take you to the Market... market://details?id=com.fancywidget.androidClick here
weatherbug elite is nice, i dot use widgets but when i open the app it shows a lot of info. they have a free version.
Before I switched to this vibrant I had a 9700 bold and I used berryweather. The home screen thing was neat, and there is nothing exactly like it, but Weatherbug Elite does alot more, the radar is much much better, but you can't customize it like Berry weather. I love in Berry weather , it showed an arrow which way the storms were going, that was nice, but android is 1000% better then 'the industry standard" blackberry.... haha
i like stock froyo news/weather app/widgets
In terms of raw info, weather data, and speed of map data, I have found My-Cast to be the very best. It's clearly the best on the iOS platform, but on Android, while presenting almost as much info, isn't nearly as refined - it's simply another animal altogether, but still very good. I love to scroll through the weather maps.
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what app/widget is this one? looks clean enough. right now im using the weather channel app
How about "The Weather Channel"
+1 Beautiful widgets! yeah you have to pay. but i think its hands down the prettiest UI.
I use the free WeatherBug app. It now has an animated radar so you can see where the storms are moving. This one and Tide Prediction are my two favorite apps that I use while boating in South Florida.
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what app/widget is this one? looks clean enough. right now im using the weather channel app
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That's stock Froyo app/widget which comes with news also. It pulls data from weather channel and has by hour forcast too. I think its the best
For a simple 1x4 widget (other formats are available), I'm pretty happy with the uncreatively-named "Weather Forecast Widgets v2" by Francois Deslandes.
I like a simple weather/temp list for the next several days, and it can be easily configured that way. You can select NOAA or Google servers (I find Google to be more accurate, which is kind of lame when you think about it...)
http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/org.koxx.forecast_weather.v2/
Still, I'm going to give Animated Weather a shot, it looks pretty cool...
Weather and toggle widgets on the market. The clocks and weather are customizable and the animations are great. There are so many ways to change it to your aesthetic preference.
Vibrant vibrating nicely now,Kthx!
Is anyone else experiencing this on their phones? When clicking Beautiful Widgets that would normally launch say Alarm & Clocks from hitting the time, or Calender from hitting the date, or the weather from hitting the weather, it doesn't launch - or takes multiple presses to launch? Anywhere else on the screen I touch will respond, just the BW area doesn't. BW recently had an update via Market, so I'm not sure if this bug is new. I've reached out to the developer, but have yet to heard from him, and wanted to see if anyone else was experiencing this too...
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I was just curious how many people keep the standard HTC flip clock with weather on their home screen by default ?
I used to like it on my EVO 4G the first couple of months, but then got sick of the HUGE numbers, made me feel like an old man with such a big clock on my screen, and changed to Beautiful widgets clock instead, I run some custom clock skin, and custom weather, to give me that all black and white look. I wish we could make the HTC flip clock smaller, the big one makes me feel like I am blind, and need large granny numbers to see it.
Opinions ?
I like the clock but it takes up too much screen real estate. I'd rather have another row of widget space.
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I like the clock but it takes up too much screen real estate. I'd rather have another row of widget space.
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I agree, if it could be shrunk down just a tad smaller, and allow for 1 row of a news widget below it, would be perfect.
I currently run a clear engadget news ticker under my beautiful Widget clock. I transferred this APK, from my EVO 4G, and it works perfectly, just like the stock engadget news ticker, expect with no border, and it's transparent background.
with the clock and current widget size their is more than enough room for a third row of apps, if they just shift them down slightly and take away the app name it would be perfect, leave the name in the app drawer but we all know what the icons do by now it's not like we need to read the name on the any of the home screens
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with the clock and current widget size their is more than enough room for a third row of apps, if they just shift them down slightly and take away the app name it would be perfect, leave the name in the app drawer but we all know what the icons do by now it's not like we need to read the name on the any of the home screens
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Would be perfect if I could have three rows below the big clock. One for a news ticker running right below the clock, and then two rows for app icons.
I love the clock, I've always left it there on all my HTC phones. I like a clean home page so there's only my Handcent and K-9 mail icons other than the clock. I like the left page also so I leave that intact and then add a couple icons to the right page.
I always use it...kinda why I could never get into non-Sense ROMs.
Really old screenshot from the EVO, but multicon was/is my best friend...unfortunately it doesn't look quite as good on the 3D.
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I use fancy widget pro. Clock and weather on one row.
I don't use it. I have a clock on the notification bar and one thing I hate is redundancy. I leave my main homescreen blank so I can look at my wallpaper and each page is themed. One for media like music and youtube widgets, one for messages, one for social etc.
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I use fancy widget pro. Clock and weather on one row.
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+1 for Fancy Widget Pro, but I use the 4X2 widget with battery % and no background most of the time. Once in a while I use the G-Tab Simi clock for a change.
I used to like it but prefer the simplistic style of Clockr...great app.
Fancy Widget Pro, got it free on Amazon 1 day. Great little app.
Hey guys, did some searching and could not find the answer.
Im coming from a Motorola Milestone and just got the Evo 3D last night. On my milestone I used beautiful widgets as a 'Super Clock'. This app was able to get my current location and specify the weather accordingly. The stock clock widget on the Evo does not do this though. I have tried turning GPS, sync and everything else on, I have checked all settings I can find.
Is there anyway of syncing the stock clock/weather widget with my current location?
I like some features of the stock one, thats why I dont want to just use Beautiful Widgets.
Thanks guys,
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Like that has weather and location
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holdfast043 said:
Hey guys, did some searching and could not find the answer.
Im coming from a Motorola Milestone and just got the Evo 3D last night. On my milestone I used beautiful widgets as a 'Super Clock'. This app was able to get my current location and specify the weather accordingly. The stock clock widget on the Evo does not do this though. I have tried turning GPS, sync and everything else on, I have checked all settings I can find.
Is there anyway of syncing the stock clock/weather widget with my current location?
I like some features of the stock one, thats why I dont want to just use Beautiful Widgets.
Thanks guys,
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I would say just make sure network location and GPS are turned on in settings, and then in acct/sync make sure weather is set to sync too.
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I would say just make sure network location and GPS are turned on in settings, and then in acct/sync make sure weather is set to sync too.
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I have checked all settings and they are all turned on.
What clock are you using,
Go to personalize then add widget, hit clocks and the first one should be weather clock.
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What clock are you using,
Go to personalize then add widget, hit clocks and the first one should be weather clock.
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As I said, I am using the Stock weather clock. All that shows up beside the weather is "Ontario" Yes I am in Ontario, but thats a pretty big place. I want it to sync to my GPS location.
click on the weather portion of the clock to bring up the forecast and such, the click your menu button, press add, then search for your specific city or area and it should gove you weather for that place you select.
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As I said, I am using the Stock weather clock. All that shows up beside the weather is "Ontario" Yes I am in Ontario, but thats a pretty big place. I want it to sync to my GPS location.
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A city is a city, and weather is an estimation, at best. It sounds like it is tracking you just fine. To get any better weather you will have to walk outside.
EDIT: could be a Canada thing too... Maybe it is limited by how far north you are.
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A city is a city, and weather is an estimation, at best. It sounds like it is tracking you just fine. To get any better weather you will have to walk outside.
EDIT: could be a Canada thing too... Maybe it is limited by how far north you are.
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The problem was it was focused on ONTARIO, that's a pretty huge estimation IMO.
A Canada thing? How north I am? I am more south then a good number of Americans. Dont think my Igloo stops GPS that much!
I got it to work after deleting the widget and adding it again then deleting all added cities and just leaving it over night, it finally synced with my location after about 8 hours.
I'm reposting this from another thread I was in, but I wanted some general thoughts from the community.
One thing I think that iPhone does better is the lockscreen. I know Apple stole the notification bar from Android, but they do a better job with the lockscreen.
I can't figure out why Android won't put more information on the lockscreen. Info like text messages, who called me when (missed calles), email.
I used an app on the iPhone that was nice, the Lockinfo program. It required a jailbreak, but it was cool. http://www.lockinfo.net/ It was really nice.
I've tried a few alternatives in Android, but nothing seems to work quite as smooth. I've tried widget locker + pure messanger. Wasn't a smooth experience.
Thoughts?
I actually find the iPhone lockscreen to be quite cluttered. I recently came from an iPhone to a Nexus S i9020a and loving ICS so far and the great community.
I still have my iPhone but I've had times where I would get multiple notifications on the lockscreen and the entire screen is filled with clutter. First there's the date and clock area, then you got the bottom slide, then the middle gets filled with notifications. I find it bothersome actually. I much prefer the lockscreens on Android and Windows Phone.
I guess I enjoy seeing my background more than who called or contacted me. I can see that when I go into the app itself.
I guess its a personal preference to what you would like in the lock screen. However all your notification do appear in the notification bar.
Try MiLocker
Actually, Android has a much larger variety of what you can have on your lockscreen. I've had simple setups that just show missed calls and texts. I have my current setup that shows missed calls, texts, new emails, and allows me to go directly to those as well as music, camera, and home screen from the unlock slider.
If you run MIUI you can also run a setup that not only shows current status updates but also gives you a preview of the most recent. Take a look: http://gadgetdesire.blogspot.com/2011/12/miui-theme-slidescreen-ls.html
Bottom line is you can have as few or as many updates as you like on Android, just a matter of your preferences.
And if you want something simple to use with android search the web for txtmissed. Great app, just no longer under development.
TXTmissed on my old Widget Locker Screen. Takes you directly to calls log or default text service:
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I'm reposting this from another thread I was in, but I wanted some general thoughts from the community.
One thing I think that iPhone does better is the lockscreen. I know Apple stole the notification bar from Android, but they do a better job with the lockscreen.
I can't figure out why Android won't put more information on the lockscreen. Info like text messages, who called me when (missed calles), email.
I used an app on the iPhone that was nice, the Lockinfo program. It required a jailbreak, but it was cool. http://www.lockinfo.net/ It was really nice.
I've tried a few alternatives in Android, but nothing seems to work quite as smooth. I've tried widget locker + pure messanger. Wasn't a smooth experience.
Thoughts?
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totally agreed. it would be nice to have a pop-up on LS when i have a missing call or a text.
MIUI rom will show you how android does with the lockcscreen, its never been better
Seconding MiLocker here. Didn't want full blown MIUI but the lock screen choices are pretty ridiculous in number. Been happy with it and it seems to be fully customizable.
you can use widget locker i think
i find it not enough configurable... i want to see my coming sms.
Maybe give GO Locker a try
Go Locker needs Go Laucher to work. Sadly
On my old HTC Tilt 2 I had an animated weather part on my home page that updated automatically.
What app can I get to have this type setup? Free is preferred.
GO Weather is what I'm using, sounds like what you'd like. Widget, lock screen and/or live wallpaper.
This appears to be the one I want. How do I get it to replace the one on my home page?
I'm on GO Launcher, so not sure if TouchWiz is the same, but if you want to swap widgets, a long press on the existing should give you an option to delete. Then menu-->add-->widget should give you a menu option of GO Widget, where you'll find weather.
Try 1 or both of these...
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Beautiful live weather is a live wallpaper, You can set your own background picture and just use whatever clock etc you have on top of it
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I have tried the ones mentioned, but have not found the one I want. The one I had with my old phone would show rain and windshield wipers if it was raining and wind if it was windy, etc.
Are there any like this out there? It also would automatically update the temperature every so many minutes.
Beautiful Weather has the options for unlock animations which looks pretty sweet.
HTC sense 3.5 4.0
I assume your last phone was HTC with sense 3.0 or 3.5 sadly there isn't any company that does software like HTC does alot of companies try but just can't get it exactly like HTC so your out of luck there. Beautiful weather is as close as it gets to what your looking for. HTC does best software lacks in hardware and displays. Samsung does best in Displays and hardware software they leave that to app developers unless it's Bada . Motorola ok software good hardware ok displays software may get alot better now that Google owns them we'll see. Sony pretty good software, last years hardware, ok displays. I wish we could get HTC sense on Sammy phones it would be sick. Oh this is all my opinion so please don't flame too much.
I tried Beautiful Weather, but it would not take my location which is Dallas, Texas. When I did the auto it came up with New York.
There is a Sense app, so I may try it.
I am also hoping to get an app that will automatically pick up the local weather wherever I am. For example if I am in New Orleans, it would show New Orleans weather plus what locations I have saved.
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I tried Beautiful Weather, but it would not take my location which is Dallas, Texas. When I did the auto it came up with New York.
There is a Sense app, so I may try it.
I am also hoping to get an app that will automatically pick up the local weather wherever I am. For example if I am in New Orleans, it would show New Orleans weather plus what locations I have saved.
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Weather bug elite is pretty decent and stays upto date with just about everything weather wise. Nothing really compares to sense.
I like beweather and I got it for free from getjar
What you describe with windsheild wipers, rain, etc. is on my wife's Android, I believe as a live wallpaper. She's had hers for over a year so its been out a while.
Do you know what app it is?
I just checked, it is a HTC phone, not sure where/how that setting is made - it appears on top of her personal wallpaper.
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On my old HTC Tilt 2 I had an animated weather part on my home page that updated automatically.
What app can I get to have this type setup? Free is preferred.
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HD widgets is hands down the best. its beautiful, it has widgets for every screen size from 4" up to 10.1" including specific sizes for the Note. It as plenty of options too.
Where did you get this?
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HD Widgets is on the market, search the market.
Everybody likes weather & clock widgets, so I was thinking of making a small guide of different weather widgets here on Xperia forum. I hope it will be easier for you now to choose a nice weather widget for your phone.
Enjoy!
You can also post your screenshots of weather widgets here, so people can see and choose which one they like.
Ps. I will add more weather widgets later and pictures of weather main screen, but now I must go to school/college.
Index of weather widgets.
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Weather Eye is nice minimalistic weather widget and good predictions but it has no clock and it couldn't find my city (only my neighbour city cause it is bigger).
Its free on Play Market (free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.citc.weather&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5jaXRjLndlYXRoZXIiXQ
Weatherwise with little bit different style from others, with moving landscape and downloadable skins. Its free from Play but skins cost money.
Download link (free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.localwisdom.weatherwise&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5sb2NhbHdpc2RvbS53ZWF0aGVyd2lzZSJd
This one is called Recast, and has pretty main weather screen that you can change and edit background and good forecast too. It also have clock widget. I use this one now and I am very happy with it (for me its the best)!
Here is XDA-thread(free): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1658159
WeatherPro is best-in-test in a computer magazine here in Sweden.
Download link (paid): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mg.android&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5tZy5hbmRyb2lkIl0.
This is called Weather Flow and has nice screen for viewing prognos but only small widget.
Download link from Play Market(paid): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=hu.distinction.weatherflow&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImh1LmRpc3RpbmN0aW9uLndlYXRoZXJmbG93Il0.
Accuweather has good forecast screen but no clock and only small widget.
Here is download link from Play(free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.accuweather.android&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5hY2N1d2VhdGhlci5hbmRyb2lkIl0.
This is aWeather from Play Market and it is nice.
Download link is here(free):https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.devexpert.weather&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kZXZleHBlcnQud2VhdGhlciJd
This is Clockweatherwidget from here at XDA.
Link is here(free): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1665349&highlight=lg+clock
This is one of my favorites now, it has many settings, weather is accurate and it has downloadable skins.
Its called Digital clock & world weather and it is free from Play market.
You can download here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droid27.digitalclockweather&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5kcm9pZDI3LmRpZ2l0YWxjbG9ja3dlYXRoZXIiXQ..
BeWeather is ugly and stupid, needs 50MB download for animation after install.
Download link(free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bellshare.beweatherfree&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5iZWxsc2hhcmUuYmV3ZWF0aGVyZnJlZSJd
Everybody knows Beautiful Widgets and here it is.
Link for Play Market(paid): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.levelup.beautifulwidgets&feature=search_result
Weather Services is free from Market and has many settings, maps etc (it has clock widget too but stupid weather prediction).
You can get it here(free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.clockweather&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5jbG9ja3dlYXRoZXIiXQ..
Weather Neue, a nice minimalistic new stuff (shake to update), but no widget yet.
Download link (free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.switchsoft.weather&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5zd2l0Y2hzb2Z0LndlYXRoZXIiXQ..
This is a new one Everfriends and it changes background after the weather, but not many settings and no main weather screen.
Here is Play Market link(free): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ifree.everfriends.widget&feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5pZnJlZS5ldmVyZnJpZW5kcy53aWRnZXQiXQ..
This weather is taken from an Asus thread, but it works on Xperia also (but only 4x3 size and no main screen).
Link is here(free): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1638541
This skin is nice Samsung SIII Clock and must be used with UCCW.
Here is XDA-thread(free): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1697628
This one is LG weather clock 2 skin, you must use with UCCW.
It has many nice background images depending on the weather condition, but no main screen.
Here is XDA-thread(free): http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27696938&postcount=5233
I've tried a lot of weather app's and so far i think WeatherPro is the one that has proved most accurate. I dont however like the WeatherPro widgets. As i like the clean minimalistic look of Sonys Androidbuild (is it called build?) i use SiMi Clock Widget.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...iY29tLnRoLmFuZHJvaWQud2lkZ2V0LlNpTWlDbG9jayJd
A lot of customization options with tapping action, location aware weather etc.
/#LOUDmouth#
Added one more weather widget today
Nice and useful thread I just started using Weatherwise https://play.google.com/store/apps/...xLDEsImNvbS5sb2NhbHdpc2RvbS53ZWF0aGVyd2lzZSJd
I've been using Weather Eye for a while. Supply all my wants: https://play.google.com/store/apps/...?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNvbS5jaXRjLndlYXRoZXIiXQ..
Another vote for Simi clock widget from me, looks good, easy to setup and it's free
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Thanks! i will try some of these that look good :silly:
I ended up with Weather Eye, likes the simplistic design, thanks.