secuso / privacy-friendly-weather

Privacy Friendly App for Android that can display weather for cities.

Privacy Friendly Weather App

⚠️ ⚠️ ⚠️ Please note: This project is no longer officially maintained. In an attempt to focus our maintenance efforts, we have decided to stop the maintenance of some projects, including this one. This means that there will be no further feature updates or bugfixes planned for this app (exceptions only in cases of severe security or privacy issues). Consequently, the app has also been removed from the stores. If someone is interested in taking over the maintenance of this app, please do not hesitate to contact us: [email protected]

This application is a privacy friendly weather app. The functionality includes adding locations and watching the current and future weather for this location with weather details. Also, a radius search can be performed. This lets you find the locations with currently the best weather around a given location.

Motivation

This application has been developed to be used as a basis for a Privacy Friendly App. Privacy Friendly Apps are group of Android applications which are optimized regarding privacy. Further information can be found on https://secuso.org/pfa

Building

Further development requires Android Studio, we recommend to use the latest version.

API Reference

Minimum SDK: 17
Target SDK: 32

License

Privacy Friendly App Example is licensed under the GPLv3.
Copyright (C) 2016 Patrick Mell
Copyright (C) 2017-2022 Christopher Beckmann

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

The icons used in the navigation drawer are licensed under the [CC BY 2.5] (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/). In addition to them the app uses icons from Google Design Material Icons licensed under Apache License Version 2.0. All other images (the logo of Privacy Friendly Apps, the SECUSO logo, the splash screen icon, the little weather icons and large weather images and the app icon) copyright SECUSO (2016).

Contributors

App-Icon, weather icons and backgrounds:
Markus Hau

privacy-friendly-weather's Issues

Weather radio support

I would like to see Weather radio support be added to this app https://www.wunderground.com/wxradio/

Handle errors from OWM

If there are more than 60 requests per minute, the user has to receive a message.

input issue when adding places

can't enter first option. if I put in arica(chile) or Bristol (UK) it will go to arikak in turkey or one of the USA Bristols. It is impossible to select the first option!

Widget for weather display for certain city

Re-order ability

Hi! Please, add an ability, in the settings, to re-order the saved locations by date or by name!

no autorotation, letters on right side 'cutted', when searching a location no scrolling possible.

Thank you for this beautiful app.
But I found some minor issues, autorotation is not possible. Last letters on right side get 'cutted'. When searching a location, I cannot scroll through the results, I can only choose from the visible ones.

Activity is recreated after dialog closes

AddLocationDialog::110 This should be changed to update the existing activity.

Add new distance units: Km/s

For now, one can choose between Miles and kilometers. But the wind speed is actually displayed in meters per second (m/s).

In my region (France), it is much more usual to give speeds in Kilometers per hour (km/h).

I'd rename the settings option "Kilometer" to "Meters per seconds" and add a new option "Kilometers per seconds". And maybe rename accordingly "Miles" to "Miles per seconds"?

Overview List: Icon not large enough

Give the weather icon a bigger height, the sun at least is not fully visible.

idea for improvement

Hi, thank you for this app!!
Please can you make 2 improvements?
I added a city. I see only the weather from today.
If i click on this city i see the detail-weather from today, but for the next day i must choose a weekday to look for the weather. For the next day i must choose a weekday etc.

1. Please can you display the weather from today and the next 5 days in one screen. Or if you want to make a option where i choose the number of days i want to see.
   For example like the app WeatherPro Free: I see the weather for all the next days for one city, I can choose each day for details. At the top there is the name of the actual city, if i click on the city at the top i can choose other cities to display the weather (before i must add my favorite cities).
2. Please can you add a widget to see the weather from today and the next 5 days.

Best regards

Add possibility to add own API Key

A possibility for the user to add an own API Key including a tutorial should be added. By this the limitation of OpenWeatherMap can be reduced.

Add Splash Screen

New release doesn't install on Android 5.0.2

Hello,
i tried to install latest release but i can't. I download apk file but cannot access it through file manager. When i open download folder it crashes. I had the same problem with other apps, it has been solved by updating build tools. It seems the same issue here.
See:

https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/64434571

Thanks!

Crash on start

I'm using
Custom CM11 ROM (based on Android 4.4.4)
Kernel 3.0
privacy-friendly-weather from F-Droid

The app crashes during the splash screen.

logcat

I/Timeline(31437): Timeline: Activity_launch_request id:org.secuso.privacyfriendlyweather time:22404074
I/ActivityManager( 2190): START u0 {cmp=org.secuso.privacyfriendlyweather/.MainActivity} from pid 31437
I/libblt_hw( 1781): Library closed (handle = 5, fd = 63)
D/AndroidRuntime(31437): Shutting down VM
W/dalvikvm(31437): threadid=1: thread exiting with uncaught exception (group=0x2c60fce0)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): FATAL EXCEPTION: main
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): Process: org.secuso.privacyfriendlyweather, PID: 31437
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{org.secuso.privacyfriendlyweather/org.secuso.privacyfriendlyweather.MainActivity}: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: AppCompat does not support the current theme features: { windowActionBar: false, windowActionBarOverlay: false, android:windowIsFloating: false, windowActionModeOverlay: false, windowNoTitle: false }
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2212)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2271)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.access$800(ActivityThread.java:144)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1205)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:102)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:136)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:5146)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:515)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:732)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:566)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at de.robv.android.xposed.XposedBridge.main(XposedBridge.java:132)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: AppCompat does not support the current theme features: { windowActionBar: false, windowActionBarOverlay: false, android:windowIsFloating: false, windowActionModeOverlay: false, windowNoTitle: false }
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV9.createSubDecor(AppCompatDelegateImplV9.java:466)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV9.ensureSubDecor(AppCompatDelegateImplV9.java:320)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatDelegateImplV9.setContentView(AppCompatDelegateImplV9.java:281)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity.setContentView(AppCompatActivity.java:143)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at org.secuso.privacyfriendlyweather.MainActivity.onCreate(MainActivity.java:48)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.app.Activity.performCreate(Activity.java:5231)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnCreate(Instrumentation.java:1087)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:2169)
E/AndroidRuntime(31437): 	... 12 more
W/ActivityManager( 2190):   Force finishing activity org.secuso.privacyfriendlyweather/.MainActivity
I/WindowManager( 2190): Screenshot max retries 4 of Token{2ca406d8 ActivityRecord{2d0fb600 u0 org.secuso.privacyfriendlyweather/.MainActivity t32 f}} appWin=Window{2d09d488 u0 Starting org.secuso.privacyfriendlyweather} drawState=4
W/WindowManager( 2190): Screenshot failure taking screenshot for (480x800) to layer 21055

Translate weather condition

At the moment the weather condition is the English text that is returned by OpenWeatherMap.

add changelog to fdroid

hi,

please add a link to change log to the fdroid repository. thanks

Stuck at boot screen

Hi,
I've just installed your app from F-Droid on my Nexus 5 - Android 6.0.1 and I'm stuck at the first screen. (Screenshot)

Adjust Logo Size

Crash on Android 4.3.1

Hi! The app crash always; Is possible add a support for Android 4.3.1. and for the corresponding version of CyanogenMod and Replicant OS??

Added French translation

https://gist.github.com/4120b8c0cc3b757afead66713995652d

Support rotation

Please support rotation of the device.

Alerts

Firstly, thanks for your work.

Please, clould you add alerts which notify when it's going to rain or it will go down the temperature?

missing dropdown-menu

I nver found or saw the dropdown-menu mentioned in the popup.
Don't know if I'm too stupid to find it or it isn't. (see screenshot)

Final cleanup: Remove ORM package

bug: to low contrast on some icons

see this screenshot, the icon of Berlin is mostly invisible do to muchto low contrast/thin line. maybe you could find something better there

also it is called Lüneburg and not Luneburg. I was also unable to find it inder its correct name. so add an umlaut-disable-conversiin search parallel by searching after the real name.

thanks

This location is not already in the list

Hi,
I already put the city 'Annecy' as a permanent location bu I can't select it from the main screen.
If I try to add it again, I have the following message: 'This location is already in the list'. As you can see in the screenshot below, 'Annecy' is not here.

Thanks.

Support Tor/SOCKS5

Please support connections via Tor/SOCKS5 for better privact

Select a default location

Allow the user to set a default location. This location would then be shown automatically when the app opens instead of the list of locations. This is a feature most weather apps have as it saves one click to the user.

It could also be used for the widget (#18).

I do not have the GPS on by default so I do not use this following option, but another common feature is instead of the default location being a fixed location, have it set by the GPS, so it is always shows the weather of the present location.

italian app translation

i made a translated menu, strings and array commit.
Please, may you add the italian language on your app?

Locations can be added multiple times

Locations can be added to the list multiple times

Weather radar maps please

I would like to see Weather Radar maps be added to this app

Changing of font size on the phone affects view

The text is cut off at the right side of the screen.

See screenshot here
#12

OpenWeatherMap dt=time of request?

Check if the dt value in OWM responses is a current timestamp. If not, update the creation of objects.

Alternative weather providers

It would be nice if the app also implements a Cyanogenmod wheather provider, so one can select it in the settings.

Horizontal scroll to navigate between days

currently to navigate between the days on the overview screen, I have to press the day text, like "Mo." "Tu" and that requires some precission as the screen area for that is sort of small. Much easier will be to just swipe the screen to the left or to the right to scroll from "Mo." to "Tu" etc. The same idea applies ot the "course of the day" as well.

Don't work

The App try to start and breaks down "angehalten" on my Samsung galaxy s4 mini.

Missing locations

Hi,

while playing around with the app I noticed that there are some missing locations. E.g. the app finds "Darmstadt, DE" or "Wolkenstein, DE", both of which are cities, but not "Mömlingen, DE" (the village), which can be found via OpenWeatherMap directly or other apps using OWM.

As I unterstand Privacy Friendly Weather uses http://openweathermap.org/help/city_list.txt as lookup table for city ids, which seems to show cities only.

There is another list mentioned in the API documentation, which also shows smaller villages http://bulk.openweathermap.org/sample/city.list.json.gz

It would be great, if you could consider switching to the json list, or alternativley, allow to add city IDs directly instead of searching in the lookup table.

Thanks!

http -> https ?

When using Net Monitor it shows an unencrypted http connection for privacy-freiandly-weather installed over f-droid.

Why not https for a privacy-friendly app (I'm not into app programming)?

Times are GMT, not current city's

Viewing forecast for a city doesn't show local time but GMT. This is confusing and leads to wrong information.
This already had caused trouble a few times for me when the app readings lead me not to bring a coat for the night when in reality I was reading the afternoon temperature. I froze my ass to death and that's how I discovered this bug.

Add crashes in case "empty" location is added

In case the "add" button is pressed, but no location from the citylist is selected the app crashes.

Widget "sticks" at wrong location and doesn't update

Physically in Richmond, VA, in app, location button works, it seems. Shows "Richmond, US". But widget shows Richmond, CA, and does not appear to update when touching circle with arrow. Also, search for location Richmond goes direct to Richmond, CA; no option for Richmond, VA.

feature request: cyanogenmodweatherprovider

hi,

it would be grate if you could implement the interface used do serve as cyanogenmodweatherprovider. Right niw i have in my system settings (CM13) the weather option in which is only written that i need to install a weather provider. when i tap that link its forwards to an froid search without any result's (probably on google play could be found some but i am using my device completely without).

so it would be grate if you could implement that.

thanks

AutoCompleteTextView in AddDialog

Use the AutoCompleteTextView component I built for the radius search in the above-mentioned dialog as well (saved LOC and code duplication).

Export/Import option

Add an ability to export/import saved locations

HTTPS(?)

Is the so using HTTPS? If not could you please use it?

You might also consider updating the doc (e.g it send a "HTTPS request" instead of an "HTTP request").

UV index

Please add UV index info to the app.

feature request: add widged

could you please include a widget that shows westher on the main screen if embedded. thanks

Use of weather icons

Using icons instead of words would help to watch the weather much faster with only a glance. For example, instead of "clouds" it would appear an image of clouds. The same for a sundy or raining day. And even for words like wind speed or time sunrise or sunset which can be easily be substituted with their correspondent images.

This way it needs less space too so you can put more info in just a row : )

Use https protocol for outgoing requests

Hey, great initiative, but according to Net Monitor, requests to the server are sent via http.

Only shows splash screen - Introduction of AsyncTasks at startup

The app only shows a splash screen here.

CM 13 based on Android 6