About Weather (Privacy Friendly)
Privacy Friendly Weather lets you watch the weather for cities and locations you are interested in. The app has been developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More info can be found on...
Privacy Friendly Weather lets you watch the weather for cities and locations you are interested in. The app has been developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More info can be found on https://secuso.org/pfa
The weather includes current weather as well as a hourly and daily forecasts. The weather data includes details such as temperature, a short description of the current weather condition and humidity, wind and rain. A dark theme as well as 4 different home screen widgets are availble with current day or future day informations.
Furthermore, Privacy Friendly Weather provides a radius search. This makes it possible to find the locations around a given location which have the best weather conditions at the moment. The search space can be set by the user.
The unit of temperatures can be set to Celsius or Fahrenheit and the unit of distances to kilometres or miles. Multiple wind units are available also.
All weather data is retrieved from the OpenWeatherMap by using their API (http://openweathermap.com/api) which provides a free service.
1. Minimum permissions
Privacy Friendly Weather requires only the minimum amount of permissions, the INTERNET permission which is necessary to make HTTP requests to remote servers for retrieving weather data. The two other permissions for binding services and keeping the phone awake are needed for background data handling.
2. Radius Search
Find the locations around a given location which have the best weather conditions at the moment.
3. No advertisement
Other free apps display advertisement which might result in privacy violations, shorten the device's battery life or use mobile data.
Previous Versions
Here you can find the changelog of Weather (Privacy Friendly) since it was posted on our website on 2016-12-31 00:00:49.
The latest version is 3.0.3 and it was updated on 2024-04-22 10:08:26. See below the changes in each version.
Weather (Privacy Friendly) version 3.0.3
Updated At: 2021-12-17
Changes: - changed About page
- translation fixes
Weather (Privacy Friendly) version 3.0.2
Updated At: 2021-06-05
Changes: - Updated permission descriptions
- Fixed potential crash for empty network-errors
- Fixed crash on adding city without selecting from list
Weather (Privacy Friendly) version 3.0.1
Updated At: 2021-05-20
Changes: UI
- fixed raindrop view and made more intuitive
- added wind speed unit choice
- easier to read weather icons
- added rain probability to the relevant views
- new intra-day widget available
- rain amount is shown more precisely
- dark theme is implemented
Internal
- added Backup functionality compatible with PFA Backup App
- more requests available per day, widgets update more frequently
Weather (Privacy Friendly) version 2.4.2
Updated At: 2021-01-29
Changes: - Widget reworked
- Improved layout of information display
- Added wind, rain and UV data
- Rain for next 60 minutes is displayed in details
- Added rain radar view from rainviewer.com for cities
- Improved city overview
- Database rework
- Fixed many bugs
Weather (Privacy Friendly) version 2.2
Updated At: 2020-06-02
Changes: - Added timezone support
- Added adaptive launcher icon
- Added improved widget support and design
- Fixed decimal numbers displaying incorrectly in some languages
- Fixed the activity being unnecessarily recreated after the dialog closed
- Fixed some database errors on migration
- Fixed some layout issues
Weather (Privacy Friendly) version 2.1.1
Updated At: 2019-03-28
Changes: - fixed some bugs and crashes
- you can now see a list of all cities you can swipe between
Weather (Privacy Friendly) version 1.1
Updated At: 2016-11-11
Changes: - Bug Fixes,Search Field scrollable,- Refinement of help page,- Update to Android 5
Disclaimer
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