Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather - eviltoast

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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.

  • MrVilliam@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Maybe I’m stupid, but I can’t get glide typing to work. I don’t see it in the settings for heliboard.

    Also, is there any reason to switch to newpipe if ReVanced is serving me well?

    Edit: Nevermind, I got glide typing to work! That took some digging. If anybody else has trouble, download this and go to heliboard settings, advanced, and go to the bottom where you can load in a gesture library, which is what I linked to.

    • N4CHEM@lemmy.ml
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      8 months ago

      Also, is there any reason to switch to newpipe if ReVanced is serving me well?

      I guess for most people not, but there can be some:

      • privacy: NewPipe doesn’t require you to log on to a Google account (but it so connects to Google servers if you watch YouTube videos). You can, however still follow channels (only locally, obviously)
      • ability to download videos or just audio. An extra is that on ReVanced you can have the download function through a 3rd party app, you can choose from several and NewPipe is one of them.
      • NewPipe can also play content from other sources, like Bandcamp or SoundCloud.

      A reason to not switch would be… the interface is not very ptetty

    • Andromxda 🇺🇦🇵🇸🇹🇼@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      8 months ago

      ReVanced lets Google collect a lot of data about you, since it’s based on the proprietary YouTube app. NewPipe and Tubular on the other hand are complete FOSS reimplementations that use an unofficial API to fetch content from YouTube. They are way better for privacy, as they don’t collect any additional information. LibreTube is even better, because it doesn’t connect to Google at all, it uses a proxy called Piped.