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Android weather app needed /for offline use/. Or does it already exist? (sopuli.xyz)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz to c/weather@feddit.uk

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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/45133785

There is only one FOSS weather app that claims to function offline, and it is broken. The f-droid.org repo shows many weather apps but none state that they work offline. It would be very useful to be able to quickly fetch the weather forecast when connecting to a hotspot, and then to later be able to view the latest forecast that was fetched. Because not everyone has a data plan or has continuous connectivity.

Anyone know of an Android weather app that can do that?

Update

I need it to collect the forecast for the next several days, ideally a week ahead.

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[–] tabris@lemmy.world 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Breezy Weather will effectively run offline. It syncs fairly regularly but if it can't update, it will still show the latest results it got and how long ago it was fetched. You can fully control your weather sources and locations, there's decent widgets, fully open source, can be installed from fdroid or using Obtainium.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Thanks for the tip. Someone suggested the Breezy Weather app but it seems to only cover the current day. I need several days.. ideally a week ahead.

(edit) Sorry, I was wrong.. The daily forecast goes 4 days out. That’s good enough.

[–] tabris@lemmy.world 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The daily forecast goes as far as the weather provider provides. Try different providers and see which ones have more days.

[–] freedomPusher@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

It turns out I was in fact getting 10 days ahead with the default weather source. I just did not realise it because I didn’t know the daily forecast scrolls further to the right.

Anyway, I’m sorted.. thanks!

[–] Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe 2 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

While I use a couple weather apps, I also use Widgetify to grab the NOAA website for my region. This keeps a widget on the home screen with multiple days on it.