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

submitted 7 months ago by ForgottenFlux@lemmy.world to c/privacy@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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[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Couldn'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. 😕

[–] PainInTheAES@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I 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.

[–] michael_palmer@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Works fine for me

[–] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 0 points 6 months ago

Yea, who knows - these things happen.

I'm just disappointed - looks promising.