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darkmoonight / Rain

🌦️ Weather application
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Add a view to easily see precipitation and temperature during the day. #172

Open Stradvr opened 3 months ago

Stradvr commented 3 months ago

I think it's important to have an overview of the day (or future days) where you can easily see how the temperature or the wind, or expecially the precipitation (probability and amount) evolves during the day, something like this: Screenshot_20240303-232434_OSS Weather~2 Because for now you can only see a simple summary of the days like this: Screenshot_20240303-233222_Rain~2 or you have to manually slowly check every hour by clicking here: Screenshot_20240303-233300_Rain~2 which I think really hurts usability. Really like the app (and the widget) though, works and looks great, this one thing would make it almost perfect for me (would only be missing some features like air quality and the moon phase).

Rafee-M commented 3 months ago

I feel like a more accurate title would: Charts showing trend of certain data.

Personal thoughts:

Although I think a chart doesn't necessarily goes with the theme of the app, it could be something that the dev could add if they want to.

My take on the implementation:

  1. A card could be added similar to how Breezy Weather does it (shown in video), but instead of the horizontal scrollable bar a vertical drop down menu could be used.
  2. An option to hide the card would also need to be added in the settings
  3. Also, would it be only hourly or daily as well?

https://github.com/darkmoonight/Rain/assets/69535896/6fb7350e-b871-4d8b-96f8-adc0703a9f34

GlassedSilver commented 3 weeks ago

Nobody beats the old Partly Cloudy iOS app that sadly isn't available anymore, but still works for anyone who bought it back in the day.

Within 1 second you immediately have a sense over what happens during the day and precisely when and which conditions combine during specific moments. You just know from a glance because everything is projected on an analog clock face, and you can move the handle to fast-forward the time and glance at future days or the second half of the day if using the 12h regular clock face rather than a zoomed out 24h analog clock.

To this day I'm dying to get that experience on Android since it makes planning your day around weather so easy even on days with rapidly changing conditions.

Here's a lovely little German language demo of the app, YouTube's auto-translated subtitles seem pretty good on this one, but let me know if there are any questions left. :)

https://youtu.be/BNaNZGFvcp4

Screenshots Partly Cloudy Screenshots

Source: CultofMac Article