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iOS 5 Brings Improvements to Weather App
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Developers have no access to new Notification Center APIs at this point. Unless it's added in the future, your only two options are weather and stocks.
I agree, a case could be made for most of the standard icons being dynamic, especially as you can fit more detail in with retina display
photos - shows your last few snaps
ipod - cover art of track playing
maps - where u are located
of course, it would work better if apple did away with the boring grid layout and adopted a tiled Windows style look; those gaps between each icon are a huge waste of space.
It would be nice if weather, reminders calendar and gps all worked together. Tomorrow my outing in Redding at 1pm and it gave the weather. Or weather forecast for where I am now etc.
Is till think that there is a lot to be done here.
Is till think that there is a lot to be done here.
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Why doesn't apple let developers have Dynamic Icon API?????
As shown in this notification concept video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWO6VkJh-0
Why doesn't apple let developers have Dynamic Icon API?????
As shown in this notification concept video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqWO6VkJh-0
Perhaps because in order to update the icon the app needs to be running in the background, and iOS doesn't really allow that for 3rd party apps. If that API was available, it would basically be a backdoor to creating homescreen widgets. It seems Apple doesn't want that because of the battery hit.
what do you know? another commenter who lacks imagination...
here in southern california, where it's almost always sunny, the temperature does, in fact vary. sometimes it's sunny and 90°. sometimes it's sunny and 60°. i often look at the weather app to determine the current temperature.
i know people who work in offices or recording studios that have no windows. so, they can't just "look outside."
when i'm about to travel, i set my weather app to display a city *other* than my own. it'd be nice to see, at a glance, what the weather's like in my city of destination before i hop on the plane.
i could go on, but you get the point...
It has the 5 day forecast but you have to swipe left or right to see it.
I also hope they add the weather widget to the lockscreen. Currently its only available in the notification center when unlocked.
Oh I know- I just want an option to show it all the time, below the current weather, with the next six days showing, as the current day is at the top. That would give me a full seven days. Like the mockup below, except the days in the row would be shifted over by one, so the row of forecasted dates were Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, and ending with Wednesday.
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Every time weather.app gets mentioned, there always seem to be cries for a dynamic icon which I really don't understand. Sure, we have one for the calendar which makes sense as people often need to quickly check the date. However, do people really have a frequent need to know what the current temperature/weather is where they are? I've not been outside today, but looking out of my window I could tell you what the temp is out there and get it right to within a few degrees, which is the same level of accuracy you get with weather.app (if you're lucky). In fact, my eyes probably get it right more often than the app anyway. Even if you're working away in a windowless environment, the temperature outside is not going to be much different than what it was when you got to work. And in that case, why do you need to know the temp anyway - what are you going to do different? If there's critical things you need to do due to changes in the temperature, I'd suggest you should be running an accurate monitoring system rather than relying on an iPhone app giving approximate local conditions.
This really isn't a dig at anyone, I'm really just at a loss to understand why people actually want this with such a passion (beyond the gimmick factor). The only real 'use' I can see it being put to is when you're in the garden with your wife and she says "phew, it's hot", you can glance at your iPhone and say "yes, it's xx degrees!". Someone help me see the need please!
There's also issues of practicality (as with having a dynamic clock.app icon which really would be a gimmick) - you've got to have icon images for every combination of conceivable temperature (in both celcius and fahrenheit) and weather (sun, rain, snow, cloud etc) - that's quite a few. At least calendar.app only needs 31.
However, now I've got all that off my chest, let me point out that the weather.app icon actually is a dynamic icon - if you've got the weather set to appear in fahrenheit it shows 73 all the time, if you've got it set to celcius in shows 23.
This really isn't a dig at anyone, I'm really just at a loss to understand why people actually want this with such a passion (beyond the gimmick factor). The only real 'use' I can see it being put to is when you're in the garden with your wife and she says "phew, it's hot", you can glance at your iPhone and say "yes, it's xx degrees!". Someone help me see the need please!
There's also issues of practicality (as with having a dynamic clock.app icon which really would be a gimmick) - you've got to have icon images for every combination of conceivable temperature (in both celcius and fahrenheit) and weather (sun, rain, snow, cloud etc) - that's quite a few. At least calendar.app only needs 31.
However, now I've got all that off my chest, let me point out that the weather.app icon actually is a dynamic icon - if you've got the weather set to appear in fahrenheit it shows 73 all the time, if you've got it set to celcius in shows 23.
The best enhancement they could make would be to ditch Yahoo Weather and use something else, because the current version is regularly 3-4 degrees C (5.5-7 degrees F) out in certain international locations. ie: mine.
Presenting the weather with more features and more options is pointless if you're presenting the wrong weather.
Presenting the weather with more features and more options is pointless if you're presenting the wrong weather.
I just want it to remember the weather while offline and all the forecasts and when last updated no matter what I do.
Every time weather.app gets mentioned, there always seem to be cries for a dynamic icon which I really don't understand. Sure, we have one for the calendar which makes sense as people often need to quickly check the date. However, do people really have a frequent need to know what the current temperature/weather is where they are? I've not been outside today, but looking out of my window I could tell you what the temp is out there and get it right to within a few degrees, which is the same level of accuracy you get with weather.app (if you're lucky). In fact, my eyes probably get it right more often than the app anyway. Even if you're working away in a windowless environment, the temperature outside is not going to be much different than what it was when you got to work. And in that case, why do you need to know the temp anyway - what are you going to do different? If there's critical things you need to do due to changes in the temperature, I'd suggest you should be running an accurate monitoring system rather than relying on an iPhone app giving approximate local conditions.
This really isn't a dig at anyone, I'm really just at a loss to understand why people actually want this with such a passion (beyond the gimmick factor). The only real 'use' I can see it being put to is when you're in the garden with your wife and she says "phew, it's hot", you can glance at your iPhone and say "yes, it's xx degrees!". Someone help me see the need please!
There's also issues of practicality (as with having a dynamic clock.app icon which really would be a gimmick) - you've got to have icon images for every combination of conceivable temperature (in both celcius and fahrenheit) and weather (sun, rain, snow, cloud etc) - that's quite a few. At least calendar.app only needs 31.
However, now I've got all that off my chest, let me point out that the weather.app icon actually is a dynamic icon - if you've got the weather set to appear in fahrenheit it shows 73 all the time, if you've got it set to celcius in shows 23.
Maybe where you are the temperature is going to be about the same when you get to work and when you go outside. For me, all winter I keep an eye on the temperature waiting for it to approach the peak for the day before taking off for my run. You can't tell that by looking outside. There's not a lot of visible difference for temperature here when the sun is shining. It's also just lazy and sloppy to show incorrect weather, but this is Apple doing it, so it's forgiven and sensible.
True, but it'd be a nice touch. The problem is not so much that it doesn't show the weather on the icon, it's that it shows the WRONG weather on the icon. There's nothing more annoying than sitting in a drizzly office in London in the middle of Winter, looking at an icon on the Springboard that tells me it's 23° and Sunny.
Yes there is - sitting in a drizzly office in London in the middle of June, looking at an icon on the Springboard that tells me it's 23° and Sunny.
Really? Didn't know that. And I only just realised that it was showing celcius and therefore couldn't be the same icon in the US.However, now I've got all that off my chest, let me point out that the weather.app icon actually is a dynamic icon - if you've got the weather set to appear in fahrenheit it shows 73 all the time, if you've got it set to celcius in shows 23.
So they can provide a dynamic icon. Just let it update twice a day. Or once even! I don't care, just make it look right.
Springboard's looking rather dated... I really like the look of the the dynamic tiles on Windows Phone. Though I don't plan on switching
Are you honestly telling me you'd rely on weather.app for that? The icon isn't actually going to give any more accurate an indication than the app already gives now, and I'd be surprised if that's going to be accurate enough for what you mentioned. Another thing is the app doesn't indicate wind or wind speed which is going to have a significant impact on the apparent temperature. Still, I'm not going to argue with what would work for you, you know best
Also, applying a bit of maths, if you assume the icon would need to be able to show a range of temps between -20 and 80 (to cater for celsius and fahrenheit) and there are at a guess about 10 different pictures to represent the different types of weather, that's 1,000 different variants required for the icon.
Also (I'm getting into this now
) if you can just look out of the window, why show the current weather at your location inside the app at all?