What is the best Weather radar app , I need one that can zoom to the same sort of levels that I could get with Accuweather on my Windows Mobile phone. I currently am using Radar Now , which I like because it is very fast and gives me a good overview on the radar , but , there are times when I need to be able to zoom in much closer , with good definition than i can with that app.
TIA
Dan
p.s. This is my first Android O/S phone , so I am trying to come up to speed on what all is available for them.
i really like weatherbug elite. it has a great looking interface, and the radar is top notch. i use the weather channel app though for video forecast, if i need one of those
Im also using Weatherbug
check out "radar now" its free and does JUST radar map using gps.. its very fast..
i use that and weatherbug.
But when I am at my sons baseball game and want something to check the weather quick because I see clouds coming.. I whip that out and show it to the head coach.
rainy days
I use WeatherBug Elite, but I have also used MyCast weather in the past. MyCast was a little faster, but WeatherBug just destroys it in features. WeatherBug also has a radar map widget.
timothydonohue said:
i really like weatherbug elite. it has a great looking interface, and the radar is top notch. i use the weather channel app though for video forecast, if i need one of those
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Yeah, +100!
I too was very interested in a radar weather app. I tried a ton of free and pay apps and finally settled on Weatherbug Elite. Great interface, fast, great features, and detailed weather radar.
Spend the $2, you won't be sorry.
Definately Rainy Days. I have tried all of the widgets and apps related to radars and by far its the best. Sometimes doing one thing and doing it well is just what you need.
MudBoar said:
Definately Rainy Days. I have tried all of the widgets and apps related to radars and by far its the best. Sometimes doing one thing and doing it well is just what you need.
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Thanks for this, it's much better than radar now. I've hooked it up to beautiful widgets so I don't really need the extra forcasting from palmary weather.
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Hey do anyone know of a good news widget to use other than the HTC news widget and the genie widget?
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Try BuzzBox
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Looking for the same..I tried Buzzbox and it sucked..Couldn't find the feeds I searched for and wouldn't show news items but from one feed.
I use gReader. It takes all the feeds you have set up through Google Newsreader and syncs it on your device. The adding a new subscription directly from the application is a bit weird, but it works.
Pretty fast too although I don't think it caches graphics until you open the item.
Greader includes a widget?
effluent said:
Greader includes a widget?
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I just put the application link on th screen or in the dockbar (using LauncherPro Beta).
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I just put the application link on th screen or in the dockbar (using LauncherPro Beta).
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Well I can just use the HTC News app for that, it works great. I got used to the widget though using Sense the first week or two after I got the phone. So looking for an alternative widget.
I personally think the HTC News widget is too bloated. I prefer the Genie Widget -- not only does it give accurate weather notices, it's also got a great news aggravator.
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I personally think the HTC News widget is too bloated. I prefer the Genie Widget -- not only does it give accurate weather notices, it's also got a great news aggravator.
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Where do I find it, I know I found it somewhere before but didn't see it in the market.
I'm also trying to find Genie in the market, but can't seem to locate it...has it been removed?
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=HFKIPATA
any other scrollable news widgets? or any way to trick the sense news widget to work with launcher?
No scrollable news reader widgets I know of and I can assure you I have looked everywhere and likely tried out nearly everything out there. I would like nothing more than to dump Sense but personally, I think they really hit the mark on some of their widgets and their seems to be no equivalent in the market. The guy behind LauncherPro has been doing a great job rolling out similarly functional widgets but no ETA yet on the NewsReader.
Lot's of folks seem to really like the Genie widget which comes on the Nexus One but with no way to choose the specific feeds you want, it doesn't work for me.
Buzzbox has potential and is the only non-Sense news reader with a full screen widget. That said, it still leaves a lot to be desired and was deleted without prejudice. It's buggy, articles were OLD (16+ hours), and it was missing a lot of feeds. I sent an email to the developer and in his response implied that the servers at Buzzbox pre-scan the sources to only send you the "best stuff." WTF? Isn't that the job of the editors at the respective sources...?
gReader syncs feeds from your GoogleReader account and is definitely one you should try if pulling from Google Reader is what you are looking for. However, if you are looking for a bit more customization I would recommend trying out Feedr, NewsRoom, and Greed2. They all have "widgets" but that is using the term loosely in comparison to the Sense one. Personally, when I am running a non-Sense ROM I use NewsRoom. Again, it has widgets but they are really just shortcuts. However, in my opinion (and of course, this entire post has been all my opinion) I think you'll find it has the nicest layout of what is available now plus customizable feeds.
I have Beautiful Widgets Home with weater, and the Beautiful Weather Live wallpaper. It is really cool.
But, there is no way to configure who to use for a weather provider, and it is not even close. Maybe my expectations are too high, but I don't think so.
I have it set to update every hour. And over the past 2 hours it has dropped from low 90s to 74, and has been raining for 90 min or so.
the weather on the home says 95 degrees, and the live weatehr page shows brigh sunny, with white clouds going by.
Anyone having better luck with this?
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I think maybe I figured it out. We'll see after some changing weather.
But I had it checked on settings to use GPS. But, GPS doesn't come in inside the house, so it had wrong location. Even thought Geolocation was set too. But I unchecked the GPS, and saved it, and it appears to have the weather right for the live wallpaper.
Anyone know how geolocation works? (I think I'm remering the name of it right).
i am also having a problem with the Widget and live wallpaper updating. The sun rises and sets and it gets dark but my Temp is not updating and we just had a crazy storm here and it still says sunny....any help?
I had fancy Widgets which had weather but it was off by 4 or 5 degrees F.
Got rid of it. Using just digotal clock now. Simple and no wrong info.
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i must have changed something....can someone post some good settings? This is one of the most downloaded apps so i must just be screwing something up.
I know that time stops updating if you use a task killer and kill beautiful widgets. I imagine this applys to the weather also.
I think this is an issue that the LevelUp Studio people are aware of. According to this tweet, it sounds like they're going to release an update that uses a new weather data provider.
It's a problem with Google's weather service. Every app and widget that pulls data from Google's weather services has been having problems for a while now. That's why they will be switching to a new provider.
Until I can get a cool clock/weather app that works correctly, I will use it. Until then, I use retro clock and Weather Bug.
Beautiful widgets has been updated to use accuweather.com for forcasts now.
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Beautiful widgets has been updated to use accuweather.com for forcasts now.
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This is correct and works great now.
I'm having weather updating issues with the current Beautiful Widgets. Anyone else? No task killer running. Using Accuweather. Manually clicking update does nothing. Would be nice if it showed a last updated timestamp. I can click to weather details and I see that Accuweather has different weather than the widget.
Does the developer have an official support channel? Can't find one and he never responded to a twitter request.
I think they may have. I just tried to find it by going to their links in Appbrain, but only found a home page with no method there to communicate to them.
But at this link on Appbrain, there is an icon to click where you can email them. I have no idea if you will get support or response.
What is your absolute favorite application/game? The one you just cannot live without. I am excepting to see a lot of mainstream apps being called out, so to go along with that question, what is your favorite non mainstream app/game?
My fave mainstream app would have to be Facebook (lots of friends from england)
My fave non mainstream app would have to be SwingGame
I am hoping that we will all be able to find some apps that we have never heard of before through this thread.
Netflix and before that came I would say YouTube app impressed me.
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Reddita. I don't think I've ever wasted more time in my life than the period of AR (after reddita).
gReader. Looks, feels and works great
Pulse. Never have I wasted so much time during work cause of this app. Best RSS reader!
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Pulse. Never have I wasted so much time during work cause of this app. Best RSS reader!
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I agree. Pulse is really quite amazing. The UI is beautiful
Pulse. Great app.
I would have to agree with Pulse as well. Was recently introduced to this app and absolutely love it.
+ on pulse. Save sooo much time with it.
Multipicture live wallpaper.
1- because I was going out of my mind when honeycomb cropped my pics
2- runs great with adw ex
Feedly :
Love it the away it allows me the add the feeds, read the same feeds on my phone and on the tablet , and also on my desktop (Firefox addon).
Beautiful interface on both android and desktop. Another nice feature is the suggestions of other feeds that I would like. Stopped using pulse once I found Feedly
The browser is my fav. Its the one app I couldn't live without.
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I'm greedy, I have two ~ Evernote & Dropbox
Both serve me exceptionally well on all my devices; allowing data to be shared simple and easy.
Evernote: Totally useful - not a timewaster - your information available transparently on every device you own, simply awesome.
It used to be Pulse, until I found News360.
Honestly though, the browser gets 99% of the usage on my tablet. I use the default browser cause I;m a chrome user on PC and having synced bookmarks is a necessity. Opera Mobile would be great if I could add more than 9 speed dial buttons
If I may ask my own question about "Your absolute favorite app"
What is your favorite sports app?
I'm trying to find a good one for tablet. All the amazing sports apps, Score Mobile, Fox etc suck for the tablet... they wont even go into landscape mode!
For those who use Pulse, try out Taptu, its very similar but somehow cleaner and faster in my opinion. (news 360 is awesome though.)
But my favorite app is... either Dropbox or Youtube
I love Pulse.
Can't help but think that if you could hide the window which slides out from the left when you click a story by sliding it back, instead of hitting the back button it would be so much better.
Going to d/l Taptu & check it out as well. Cheers for the suggestion
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Pulse. Never have I wasted so much time during work cause of this app. Best RSS reader!
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Have you tried d9 reader? XDA creation, very good.
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For all of the folks that like Pulse - Check out News Republic - it's a really nice (and free) news app (I like it better than Pulse)!
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Besides the browser and Facebook (Friendcaster for tablets) the app I keep coming back and spending lots of time in is Age of Zombies. The Survival mode is addicting. It's the only game I've found on the Android Market that I keep coming back to play. Everything else I get bored of after 5-10 minutes.
Still can't replace console gaming though.
Have to agree with Pulse. Its just so clean and epic...and epic.
Are there any similar widgets available on the Android Market similar to the HTC Photo Album Widget(s)? (Specifically the photo grid one and/or the swipe up/down one.)
The constant HTC "loading" after pressing home from any other app is ridiculously frustrating and these widgets are the only thing preventing me from switching to another launcher. I haven't been able to find a suitable replacement widget, but perhaps my search skills aren't up to par.
Anyone know of any widgets with similar functionality? (Basically any widget that isn't fixed to just one photo at a time, with some sort of interactivity allowing you to flip through photos right from the widget.)
Anyone?
Have you tried multiple slideshow?
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.dreamdom.multipic&feature=also_installed
I use quickpic
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I use quickpic
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Quickpic has a widget?
I liked that widget too. That tile grid is fly, but it was certainly not worth me keeping Sense. I switched to Launcher Pro. I looked for some on the market, but I did not see anything remotely similar to that widget.
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Quickpic has a widget?
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no. I think he's just stating that he uses it instead of the gallery app.
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I liked that widget too. That tile grid is fly, but it was certainly not worth me keeping Sense. I switched to Launcher Pro. I looked for some on the market, but I did not see anything remotely similar to that widget.
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Aye. I use it all the time. I love it! It looks great and very slick.
Plus, it's great for theft deterrent. I misplaced my phone in a store and one of the employees was able to easily return it to me since my pictures were all over the home screen.
I tried the Multipic Slideshow Widget, but wow, it just does not compare.
I wonder why slideshow widgets are so few and far between? Seems like an easy place to clean up since there are no worthwhile competitors.
I understand completely
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Aye. I use it all the time. I love it! It looks great and very slick.
Plus, it's great for theft deterrent. I misplaced my phone in a store and one of the employees was able to easily return it to me since my pictures were all over the home screen.
I tried the Multipic Slideshow Widget, but wow, it just does not compare.
I wonder why slideshow widgets are so few and far between? Seems like an easy place to clean up since there are no worthwhile competitors.
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I feel you on the theft. That is why my lockscreen is the one where you can use a photo album as the source. ALL my family and friends come in and out of focus when the phone needs to be unlocked. You can steal my phone, but you can't steal my family (though i wish some members could be "borrowed" for an extended period of time. lol).
As for the widget, I am not sure if it is a htc proprietary thing. I just know I would use it in launcher pro. Again, this is the ONLY widget I like from Sense but I am not going to use Sense just for this app. I will keep looking for alternatives and post back if I find something.
Ive been using an older version of weatherbug elite for a long time and now that ive switched to lg v20 it doesnt quite work as well as on older versions of android. It seems the widget doesnt refresh like its supposed to leaving a blank widget untill i open the app, then the widget refreshes and displays.
So ive tried the included weather, ive tried several from play store and NOT ONE does it all inside the actual app like old weatherbug elite, even the newer weatherbug app kicks over to web for simple extended forecast, and i cant seem to find anything in it that shows wind forecast.
They all seem to show a little info and then push you to web browser for more details or extended forecast. I can create a bookmark for weather.com if thats what i wanted, but its not.
I work outside daily during winter and spend days on the water frequently in the warmer months so extended weather is very important to me, and old weatherbug elite has been a great app for a long time but i guess its time to move on since its not working right.
Basically im looking for a weather app that actually is an app, not a front for a website weather details. Something that shows pressure, wind and all that crap within the actual app so i dont have to dig thru multiple web pages
The Google app had a beautiful interface with everything you need, without taking you to the browser.
BTW you can check out weather timeline.
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Ive been using an older version of weatherbug elite for a long time and now that ive switched to lg v20 it doesnt quite work as well as on older versions of android. It seems the widget doesnt refresh like its supposed to leaving a blank widget untill i open the app, then the widget refreshes and displays.
So ive tried the included weather, ive tried several from play store and NOT ONE does it all inside the actual app like old weatherbug elite, even the newer weatherbug app kicks over to web for simple extended forecast, and i cant seem to find anything in it that shows wind forecast.
They all seem to show a little info and then push you to web browser for more details or extended forecast. I can create a bookmark for weather.com if thats what i wanted, but its not.
I work outside daily during winter and spend days on the water frequently in the warmer months so extended weather is very important to me, and old weatherbug elite has been a great app for a long time but i guess its time to move on since its not working right.
Basically im looking for a weather app that actually is an app, not a front for a website weather details. Something that shows pressure, wind and all that crap within the actual app so i dont have to dig thru multiple web pages
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You might like 1Weather, it's what I switched to after WeatherBug changed. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.handmark.expressweather
Try Gismeteo