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Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather
(f-droid.org)
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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.
Firstly, check if certain apps you use from Google Play are on there too. Some, like Bitwarden, Wikipedia, or Jellyfin, are on fdroid too without Google's bullshit. Some even have functionality on fdroid that they're not allowed to have on the Play store.
After that, the Fossify suite of simple apps are very basic, no bullshit, non-Google system apps. Gallery in particular is popular.
If you like Sid Meiers Civilization, search for Unciv.
NewPipe for ad-free YouTube.
TrackerControl will let you block ads system wide. It's kinda touchy and takes some finagling, though.
Seconding Fossify Gallery, IIRC it's a fork of the superb Simple Gallery, prior to it being sold to some dodgy data gathering company. It's great.
To be fair, there are also some features that also rely on Google's builds. For example, Bitwarden's "Log in with Device" only works on the Google Play version.
Not seeing bitwarden on fdroid
It's not in the official F-droid repo
https://mobileapp.bitwarden.com/fdroid/
What sort of finagling are we talking? Also, I've been using AdAway for the past few weeks with mixed results. Could these tools be used in tandem or is that just silly?
Since they both need the VPN slot, you can't use both at the same time. Personally, I'm a fan of NextDNS which uses Android's Private DNS feature to block requests to ad- and tracking servers.