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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 2 months ago by ForgottenFlux 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] 4 points 2 months ago

I love it.

I had to disable most of it to have only the basics and that's great :) you can choosr what you want

[–] TheGiantKorean 3 points 2 months ago

Installed. Looka really good!

The cards don't seem to be chsnging for me when I rearrange them. Otherwise I'm really liking it.

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

Impressive.

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

Hrm, I can't find that on my FDroid install. Anyone else having that same issue?

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

I can. Have you tried updating the repository information in your app?

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

Ahh that did it. Well, more accurately it led me to the problem - I had installed fdroid on a now deleted alternate profile. Uninstall and reinstall fixed it.

Cheers!

[–] ClearCutCoconut 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's on the IzzyOnDroid repo!

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

But also on the main F-Droid repository. I can see both results when I search (see screenshot in my other reply).

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

Couldn't find in FDroid or using GDroid, had to download from website.

Didn't matter, location search is completely broken. Can't find any location.

New York? Nope. LA? Nope. Berlin? Nope. None. 😕

[–] PainInTheAES 2 points 2 months ago

I also had this problem but after setting my current location which requests location permissions it works. I think there's a slight bug where it doesn't ask for location permissions on launch. Similarly, the rain notification was failing because it only asked for location permissions while using the app not constantly.

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

Works fine for me

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago

Yea, who knows - these things happen.

I'm just disappointed - looks promising.

[–] techt 2 points 2 months ago

Thanks! I hadn't gotten around to finding a GW replacement yet, super happy this came up!

[–] Ekpu 2 points 2 months ago

Very nice. Searched some time for a GW replacement but none fullfilled my needs like this!

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

Thanks for this, switched from Weather Underground

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Any idea why:

I can't find it on the F-Droid app?

The Droid-ify app says it could not validate?

Edit:

Had to unselect then reselect the repository to update F-Droid. Version 5.1.8_FDROID showed up and installed without an issue.

Droid-ify was trying to install 4.??-beta even after updating the Droid-ify app. Maybe that was the issue. Uninstalled Droid-ify.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

You need to add the IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repo.

I've been using Breezy since it replaced Geometric Weather. It's a fantastic app.

I sends notifications for weather warnings and has a lot of info depending on the meteorological data provider.

I use OSS Weather also as a complement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Had related issues and not only with Breezy. Had to switch back to the F-Droid app. Too bad.

I use my own API keys with it and it is great. Highly recommend. All that is missing is Radar. I use a different app for that.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

I've been very impressed with Weawow

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

Nice! Been missing GW!