Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather
Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather
A powerful, open-source Material Design weather app.
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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
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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
- Daily and hourly forecasts up to 16 days
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Multiple weather sources
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Large selection of home screen widgets for at-a-glance information
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Live wallpaper
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Custom icon packs
- Geometric Weather icon packs
- Chronus Weather icon packs
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Automatic dark mode
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Looking for radar? Check out this document
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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)
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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.
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
4 0 ReplyInstalled. Looka really good!
The cards don't seem to be chsnging for me when I rearrange them. Otherwise I'm really liking it.
3 0 ReplyVery nice. Searched some time for a GW replacement but none fullfilled my needs like this!
2 0 ReplyCouldn'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. 😕
2 0 ReplyI 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.
2 0 ReplyWorks fine for me
1 0 ReplyYea, who knows - these things happen.
I'm just disappointed - looks promising.
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I love this, but I wish it would display both F and C simultaneously.
2 0 ReplyThanks! I hadn't gotten around to finding a GW replacement yet, super happy this came up!
2 0 ReplyHrm, I can't find that on my FDroid install. Anyone else having that same issue?
2 0 ReplyI can. Have you tried updating the repository information in your app?
5 0 ReplyAhh 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!
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It's on the IzzyOnDroid repo!
1 0 ReplyBut also on the main F-Droid repository. I can see both results when I search (see screenshot in my other reply).
5 0 Reply
Impressive.
2 0 ReplyThanks for this, switched from Weather Underground
2 0 ReplyAny 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.
1 0 ReplyIt was on the IzzyOnDroid repo, not the main F-Droid repo
1 0 ReplyHad 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.
1 0 ReplyYou 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.
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I've been very impressed with Weawow
1 0 ReplyNice! Been missing GW!
1 0 ReplyWhy is this in privacy? It has like a million unnecessary permissions
4 12 ReplyReally? Such as?
5 0 Replyobviously a weather app couldn't possibly use your location for anything, must be spyware
14 3 Reply- read the contents of your shared storage
- run foreground service
- ask to ignore battery optimization.
- view network connections.
- view Wi-Fi connections.
- run at startup.
- set an alarm.
- expand/collapse status bar.
- run foreground service with the type "specialUse"
- run foreground service with the type "dataSync"
None of these are used in my other weather app =\
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