Weather ACE receive weather data from several sources, automatically select the best weather source (based on calculated accuracy of available sources) and it also allows you to compare available weather forecasts from all available weather sources.
Feature list:
☆ Up to 16 days of daily weather forecast, up to 10 days for hourly (per hour or per 3 hours).
☆ The application could work to 10 days completely offline, with all the information on all widgets, views, notifications and weather alerts, based on saved hourly weather.
☆ Accurate weather forecasting by using generated forecast accuracy statistics.
☆ Phone and tablet optimized.
☆ Localizations for English, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Arabic and Simplified Chinese.
☆ Provides information about of temperature, feels like, precipitation, wind, dew point, barometer, humidity, cloud cover and lot of other information including data from environmental sensors from your device.
☆ Contains multiple views for weather information, daily, hourly and extended weather information. Possibility to compare weather information from different weather data sources.
☆ Space weather information. Geomagnetic Kp-index with forecast on several days and NOAA space scales.
☆ Different customizable weather charts.
☆ Detailed and customizable weather alerts and weather notifications.
☆ Home screen widgets, different widgets. Common widget (resizable), stack widget (stack widget required android 3.0+) and transparent 2x2 (resizable vertically) widget with lot of customization options. 2x2 transparent widget have widget constructor, that you can use for to create your our widget look from predefined content blocks.
☆ Multiple locations supported (millions). Auto-Follow location (GPS).
☆ Sun (sunrise, sunset, day length and more) and Moon (moon phases, current illumination and more) information. Most precise algorithms used for calculations.
☆ Lot of options for customization (most of colors, fonts, icon themes, units of measure etc). All three feels-like types of temperatures supported. Color customization for widgets.
☆ Possibility to use any image as application background. Also possible to use you home screen live wallpapers as application background.
☆ Detailed data update options.
☆ Application use as low as possible your phone/tablet battery.
☆ Internal application help
☆ Tasker support via Weather ACE API http://mycodefab.com/weather_ace_api.html.
☆ Ready to use for peoples who have impaired vision
* The free application include AdMob advertisements with blocked most of sensitive ads. You can remove ads for a small fee.
Weather forecasts usually made by using of weather forecasts models. Different weather forecast sources use different forecasts models. For to let you know which weather source is better for your location (or any world wide place), application gather forecast statistics by comparing current weather with that was predicted. Check internal application help for more details. All application widgets and views provides best (by statistics) data.
The application currently use two world-wide and one USA-only weather sources of data + 2 more sources that required a free keys (will be more in next versions).
Weather ACE application homepage still in construction.
· Increased range of icon size in the weather list (daily and hourly).
· Fixed rare crash in the Charts.
· Fixed wind speed and wind gusts speed for weather data from airports.
· MET.NO source will correct air pressure based on location height about see level.
· Other small fixes and improvements.
· [New] Support for Weatherbit.IO weather source. Its requires obtaining free (Personal use) key from Weatherbit.io homepage. The source provides lot of weather info, including UV index.
· Other small fixes and improvements.
· Fixed another bug with updating of widgets and notifications.
· Other small fixes and improvements. Including fix for delimiter in the feels-like temperature info.
· [New] Support for android 11.
· Fixed MET.NO source. It will also affect per-hour weather in the app and widgets.
· Fixed adding location by name.
· Other small fixes and improvements.
Hotfix 1.12.18 (19.12.2018)
· At least 4 users experience frequent crashes after last update (build 1.12.17). The hotfix should help with the problem. The crashes was related with custom background image.
In case you still experience frequent crashes - please contact to me by mail oleksiy.chekin@gmail.com
Please make sure that you have internet connection. It possible that you will need to refresh weather data after update.
· Lot of fixes and improvements for auto-follow location (a location that follow your phone (tablet) location).
· [New] You can disable any existing location via the Location Details page.
· [New] By default, WeatherACE will create auto-follow location automatically. For existing users that does not have auto-follow location already - it will be added in the disabled state.
· More fixes for NOAA source.
· Other bug fixes and improvements.
· Replaced font for temperature in the status line.
· Improved code that detect internet availability.
· Lot of other bug fixes and improvements. Please check Change log (Menu-Settings, at the end) for more info.
· Fixes for charts.
· [New] Added feels-like and UV to charts.
· [New] Changed way to switch data to charts.
· Other bug fixes and improvements.
· Fixed bug with UVI index.
· Fixed bug with language that used for returning information via WeatherACE API (for example via Tasker).
· Other bug fixes and improvements.
· Fixed some rare crashes and ANR.
· Fixed widgets refresh problems on some devices with Android 8.0 and 8.1.
· Other bug fixes and improvements.
· [Fix] Hot fixed 2 crashes (mostly happens on Huawei P20 Pro and Lenovo Zuk Z2 (Plus) devices). Check Changes Log for more details.
· Improved error handling for MET.NO weather source. Check Changes Log for details and use Menu-Settings-Update Setting-Weather Sources-Recheck_available_sources in such situations.
· Bug fix for unknown weather icon in some rare cases.
· Other bug fixes and improvements.
· Hot fixed issues with application permissions. Check Changes Log for details.
· [New] Menu-Settings-Widgets allows to configure added Weather ACE widgets.
· [New] Manual recheck weather sources for location(s).
· Bug fixes and improvements. Please check Changes Log for details.
· Preparations for a new free WeatherACE module that will be added to one of the next releases.
· Bug fixes, mostly for android 8+ (rare crashes) and android version less then 7.0 (notifications not show on some devices).
· Advertisement video now correctly remove banner for 4 hours (previously was 1 hour).
· [New] Support for Notification Channels for Android 8+.
· Fixed more crashes.
· More fixes for Android 8+. Fixed problems with showing notification and update problems.
· The app now ask for permission to read from file system (android 7+). Its requires in case you use external fonts and external weather icons.
· Other bug fixes and small improvements.
· Fixed MET.NO weather source.· Bugfixes.
· Several peoples reports about crashes in last version. I improved code and removed sending reports via mail for to have more info about the situation if it happens.· Fixed some other small issues.
· Another fix for bug with updating widgets and notifications on some devices with android 6.0+. Tested on Samsung Galaxy S7.
· Fixed bug with updating widgets on some devices with android 6.0+.· In some cases extended weather info on exact hour showed different data then list of hourly weather info.· Temporary limited sources of maps for offline maps.· Fixed some other small issues.
