[Feature Request] Rain in the next hour for MeteoFrance/MfWeather Api

[Pierre-Andre]

First of all: thanks for this wonderful App.

I have a feature request for the MeteoFrance/MfWeather Api: I would like the Rain in the next hour displayed in the app (a feature very useful for rainy places, ie not Marseille ;) PS I am using Fdroid 3.013 version

[papjul]

This requires first to be able to add precipitation information to the minutely widget, which is not possible atm.

We will then have another issue: Météo France doesn't give the precipitation quantity, it only says "no rain", "light rain", "medium rain", "strong rain" so it will not be possible to implement precipitation bars.

[Pierre-Andre]

Thanks for considering my feature request and thanks for the app !

If you have time to think about this feature request, I just have the following remarks: 1) add precipitation information to the minutely widget -- this is developper's private matters --

2) precipitation quantity prevision are given as qualitative variable but with the following breaks: [http://pluiesextremes.meteo.fr/france-metropole/Intensite-de-precipitations.html]()

thus a quantitative number can be roughly estimated as the center of each bin :

• "no rain" -> 0mm/h
• "light rain" -> 2 mm/h
• "medium rain" -> 5.5 mm/h
• "strong rain" -> 11 mm/h (this is a rough estimate and in France it can reach up to 100 mm/h but this is an app not a professionnal tool.)

3) If you implement this feature, I think that using a color code (as done in meteo france) when drawing precipitation information would be far more informative for end-user (like me) than the height of a bar (thus a bar with height and appropriate color would be perfect)

And one more time thanks !

[papjul]

2. I can handle the Météo France implementation with the given numbers.
3. Color changes according to the theme (sunny, clouds, etc). You don't want to mix too many colors. A better way could be to play with the opacity to make the bar more or less visible, although there is already some opacity currently (on daily/hourly). I will pass on this one, as this is more a core feature.

[papjul]

Side note regarding the above pull request: this will not exactly how we described it. It will work like what is currently done in AccuWeather provider: an horizontal bar filled proportionally according to the number of minutes with rain in the next hour. I believe this is the best implementation we can currently make, and it is in harmony with what is currently done on AccuWeather side ;)