Cirrus Android Widget for Weather Display Live

One of my recent projects was to develop an Android widget to display the values found in online WD Live clientraw.txt files. It accesses the same data as my other weather related code projects this year: a JSON Web Service for Weather Display Live and a PiFaceCAD Weather Display Console.

I’ve name the Widget “Cirrus” after the cloud genus. The widget supports 18 different weather data points (and displays the current trend for many of these) and 16 different measurement units. It also has colour coding for easy recognition of different temperature ranges (using the BBC Weather temperature colours) and UV index (using the US EPA UV Index colours).

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I use the widget to display the current conditions for both my own weather station and others when I travel. So far I have installed and run it successfully on a Samsung Note II (Android 4.4.2), Samsung Galaxy Express (Android 4.1.2) and a 2013 Nexus 7 (Android 5.0.1).

At this time I do not have any plans to publish the widget on the Google Play Store. I have, however, open sourced the code using the MIT License and made it available via GitHub here:

https://github.com/waynedgrant/android-appwidget-cirrus

See the read me for installation and use instructions.

 

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