Usually,I prefer simple things,especially when it comes to weather/news apps. I found that the app that's called "väder XL" that I use in my phone also work fine in my watch,and so does "living earth".
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I doubt any app will give you what you are looking for. Carrot works best for me - for the same reasons you provided - the complications.
All apps have to pull their weather data from a source. There are only 2 or 3 major places that have open API's that allow you to pull weather.
This is not any different than using yahoo weather vs accuweather vs etc etc.
The only thing I can think of is if an app decided to aggregate the weather data from 3 sources of weather and displayed them for you - You could decide what you think is most likely etc.
Hi All,
I'm the developer of Weather Gods which also has an awesome Apple Watch app and complication(s)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weather-gods/id1041512978?mt=8
Send me an email: scott.wilsonbilling@mac.com if you would like a promo code to take it for a spin
I'm the developer of Weather Gods which also has an awesome Apple Watch app and complication(s)
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/weather-gods/id1041512978?mt=8
Send me an email: scott.wilsonbilling@mac.com if you would like a promo code to take it for a spin
I've been using BeWeather since they released it for iOS... back in my BB days, I used their version for that platform. The complications are pretty configurable, and the weather forecasts and statistics seem to be pretty accurate. They use WeatherUnderground as their data source...
WeatherUnderground's Watch app is horrible. Takes long to load, takes long to update it's information, seems to be either a memory hog or otherwise unstable as it's rarely running in the background but instead loads almost every time I open it.
Be Weather 2 on the other hand seems to be great (only used it for about an hour). The Watch app loads and updates it's information quickly. The complications are customisable, you can for example choose what is shown (temp, conditions, temp+condition, wind...) and you can even choose the weather icon theme. It costs only 3,49€, which is just a one time payment.
Be Weather 2 on the other hand seems to be great (only used it for about an hour). The Watch app loads and updates it's information quickly. The complications are customisable, you can for example choose what is shown (temp, conditions, temp+condition, wind...) and you can even choose the weather icon theme. It costs only 3,49€, which is just a one time payment.
Been test driving this app and it’s been a pleasure doing so. Very nice looking layout. Has everything you could possibly need. It also looks great on my iPad as well as my watch. The only suggestion I would like to add is a radar. Highly recommend this app for anyone looking for an informative weather app and watch complication.
While Weather Gods does many things right, it has couple things I don't like. For example the UI is nice looking, although a bit confusing at first (new kind of icons you've never seen before and they have no text to tell what they mean). But the thing I don't like most is the Watch complications. First of all, you can't customize them. So you have to make do what the developers give you. The complications are:
- Long complication (at the bottom of some of the watch faces): temperature + condition as text (no icons)
- Small complication (at the corners of some of the watch faces): there is no complication at all
- Modular face's small complication: has three things. It shows wether temp is going up/down or staying same (with an arrow), has a small static icon that informs you that the arrow has something to do with temperature, shows air pressure as a number
- Modular face's big complication: temperature as number and condition + detailed condition (no icons)
I don't get why they haven't implemented the small complication. Also the modular face's small complication having a static icon is waste of screen real estate plus I personally don't care about air pressure. Also I like to see the weather condition as those nice little icons that most weather apps have.
There is also what I consider to be a bug. It eats battery on the phone like crazy. This is because the app either never sleeps or stays in the background for a long time after you close it. And while the app is running and if you have given it right to use your location, it will keep using the location services until you kill the app. If you prevent it from using your location, the phone app continues to work, but the Watch app will complain that your current location isn't available and that you should enable it from the Phone's settings.
With some customization added for the Watch complications and obviously that battery eating bug fixed I might switch to using it. But for the time being BeWether 2 is my choice.
- Long complication (at the bottom of some of the watch faces): temperature + condition as text (no icons)
- Small complication (at the corners of some of the watch faces): there is no complication at all
- Modular face's small complication: has three things. It shows wether temp is going up/down or staying same (with an arrow), has a small static icon that informs you that the arrow has something to do with temperature, shows air pressure as a number
- Modular face's big complication: temperature as number and condition + detailed condition (no icons)
I don't get why they haven't implemented the small complication. Also the modular face's small complication having a static icon is waste of screen real estate plus I personally don't care about air pressure. Also I like to see the weather condition as those nice little icons that most weather apps have.
There is also what I consider to be a bug. It eats battery on the phone like crazy. This is because the app either never sleeps or stays in the background for a long time after you close it. And while the app is running and if you have given it right to use your location, it will keep using the location services until you kill the app. If you prevent it from using your location, the phone app continues to work, but the Watch app will complain that your current location isn't available and that you should enable it from the Phone's settings.
With some customization added for the Watch complications and obviously that battery eating bug fixed I might switch to using it. But for the time being BeWether 2 is my choice.
Thanks @teidon for the feedback, much appreciated.
The watch complications is our first version and we will be adding to this in the future. The location services problem looks like a bug which I've seen in iOS11, in iOS10 it has seemed more stable. Would be good to know which iOS version please?
The watch complications is our first version and we will be adding to this in the future. The location services problem looks like a bug which I've seen in iOS11, in iOS10 it has seemed more stable. Would be good to know which iOS version please?
I use iOS 10.
And in case someone wants to know if they are affected by this bug, you can go to Location Service's settings in the Settings app and for Weather Gods change it from "Always" to "While using the app". Then launch the app and close it and see if you get the blue bar at the top and for how long it stays there. The battery information in the Settings app doesn't include system services such as Location Service. The battery usage info might be showing that Weather Gods has used something like 1% or 2%, while in reality it has been excessively using the Location Services, which in turn has used considerable amount of battery.
Thanks for the info - we found the bug! We send the location updates to the watch as well (series 1 has no GPS) and we were requesting background location updates without specifying significant change. It only seems to affect watch users.
What's interesting though - why would Apple let our app use 'always on' location services when it has been switched it to 'while using the app' ?
I'm not exactly a developer myself, so I can't give very educated answer. But I can come up with two possibilities. Either you are wrongly registering the app for the OS so that the OS thinks that your app is some kind of GPS locator/tracker which requires GPS always on. For example navigator applications needs to have the GPS always on plus the app needs to run in the background so that it can give directions even when the user is using an other app. Navigator app is considered being "in use" when the user has told the app to give directions to a location - even if the user is using an other app at the same time. There is of course also the possibility that there is some kind of bug in Apple's API's or Xcode or somewhere but I would probably look at my own code first and then blame others.
