Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather (f-droid.org)

submitted 9 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/opensource@lemmy.ml

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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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[-] ChallengeApathy@infosec.pub 66 points 9 months ago

Best weather app I've used. FOSS but unlike most FOSS weather apps, it doesn't FEEL like your typical FOSS alternative.

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 53 points 9 months ago

it also supports Gadgetbridge integration, so I get the weather data from it on my watch.

[-] ace_garp@lemmy.world 16 points 9 months ago

Here's the TIL I need.

Thanks noodlejetski (c:

[-] harald_im_netz@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

Same, thanks original commenter!

[-] Ashen@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Can this be used on the Samsung Galaxy Watch 4?

[-] noodlejetski@lemm.ee 4 points 9 months ago

https://gadgetbridge.org/gadgets/

[-] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 37 points 9 months ago

My favorite feature is the 1-row weekly weather widget for my home screen. I have that next to its 1x1 widget for everything I want at a glance using minimal space.

[-] Lemming6969@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Customized widgets is my number 1 desire for most apps

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[-] uzay@infosec.pub 27 points 9 months ago

I've been using it for a while now and I love it. FOSS and pretty and customisable.

[-] Kase@lemmy.world 19 points 9 months ago

Hey, I use this app! It's awesome. They also included lots of information about the air quality measurements, which I appreciated. For example:

[-] N4CHEM@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Than you very much! I've been using this app for moths and I didn't know this. Cool feature.

[-] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 14 points 9 months ago

It's the best weather app for Android. Beautiful design and great optimization.

[-] UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk 13 points 9 months ago

I discovered this after giving up on the BBC weather app because it wants me to sign in.

It's been really good, I love the details and it's been getting regular updates. Recommended.

[-] Lettuceeatlettuce@lemmy.ml 12 points 9 months ago

My weather app of choice for about a year now. Really nice interface and solid performance.

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 1 points 9 months ago

I've landed on it as the best blend of accurate and not terrifying for security

[-] Peffse@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

I guess I'll keep this in the back of my mind, but I already migrated over to QuickWeather when Geometric Weather went unsupported. It stinks that I can't swipe between locations anymore, but the built-in radar and higher information density outweigh switching back for me.

[-] nfsu2@feddit.cl 8 points 9 months ago

Ive been using it for over a year now and it has been a breeze

[-] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 9 months ago

Ohh I'm so glad. I was on geometric weather and it stopped working a few weeks ago. It's a beautiful app.

[-] Foxfire@pawb.social 8 points 9 months ago

Glad I saw this post today, downloaded and love it straight away! So clean and exactly what I wanted out of a FOSS weather app.

[-] deweydecibel@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Recently discovered it myself. Absolutely excellent.

[-] yoz@aussie.zone 7 points 9 months ago

Does it have beautiful widget for home screen ?

[-] Hedlosa 6 points 9 months ago

Multiple, and very customisable

[-] traction@infosec.pub 6 points 9 months ago

I was searching for a new weather app a few months ago and landed on Breezy - definitely the best one currently out there for Android!

[-] ReakDuck@lemmy.ml 6 points 9 months ago

Downloaded and using now instead of "Tiny weather forecast germany"

[-] csm10495@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

Cool looking app. I wish it was available on Google Play for people not familiar with third party app downloads.

[-] delirious_owl@discuss.online 4 points 9 months ago

any benefits over omWeather?

[-] CyberDine@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

Great app, just wish they had a radar.

Also for my American brethren that also use Freedom units, you might have to set speed, temperature, volume, pressure measurements to something our smooth brains can understand:

[-] Kowowow@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 months ago

A lock screen daily or weekly display would make this perfect

[-] Armand1@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

I'd been using Geometric Weather for many years, and I noticed a few weeks ago that it was misbehaving, not fetching data sometimes. I didn't realise it had not had an update for almost 3 years!

I had switched to Google's weather app, but maybe I'll switch to this instead. Thanks for the heads-up.

[-] ManniSturgis@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago

Been using it for months now. Can recommend.

[-] Alxira5@lemmings.world 4 points 9 months ago

The application sounds very good, it is open source and has good functionality, but… is it true that it does not have proprietary dependencies? Because if I'm not mistaken they must depend on a meteorological center and I doubt that it is free material

[-] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 9 points 9 months ago

They have three choices of API to use. One of which is NOAA whose data license is compatible with F-Droid's free network resources definition

[-] baseless_discourse@mander.xyz 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Yeah, they build several versions: google play version, fdroid version, and standard version (I am assuming distributed by izzydroid).

You all of them are available on github, and you can choose which one you want to get by using obtainium or download from specific app store / repos.

detailed differences between each version is here: https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather/blob/main/INSTALL.md
releases: https://github.com/breezy-weather/breezy-weather/releases

[-] RalphWolf@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Tried it, decided to stay with Weawow which is beyond excellent.

[-] JustEnoughDucks@feddit.nl 3 points 9 months ago

Best weather app since DarkSky. I love the notification of impending rain! Very helpful in Belgium where it rains half of the year sporadically.

[-] David@lemy.lol 3 points 9 months ago

Been using it for a while now. Great Weather App

[-] apocalypticat@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Why does it send intermittent notifications stating the update failed?

[-] AnActOfCreation@programming.dev 3 points 9 months ago

I ended up just disabling that notifications channel cuz I don't care that much it it fails in the background.

[-] CyberDine@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

I had to mess around in Android/Samsung settings to give it permissions to run in the background.

[-] apocalypticat@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

That's probably why that happened to me, on Android as well. I set the location setting to work only while using the app. I think since I turned off notifications, it stopped sending the failed update message.

[-] vort3@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Can it show something like a dashboard with forecasts for multiple cities at once?

[-] barryamelton@lemmy.ml 2 points 9 months ago

Yep, it has a widget for that.

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[-] TDCN@feddit.dk 2 points 9 months ago

How is the report generated andwhere is the data sourced from? I often have huge issues with weather reports being very wrong or not up to date fast enough to be useful so I end up just using the national report but their app is terrible.