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Best Dark Sky Alternatives for Android

If you haven't already heard, Dark Sky is shutting down. I know, I know- we're sad, too. That's why to ease the pain we've created this list of Dark Sky Android alternatives so that you can best fill that gaping hole in your cloud-shaped heart.

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IMPORTANT NOTE: Dark Sky will be shutting down in July 31st but many apps and services (including the apps below) use the Dark Sky API for their own weather data. Dark Sky has committed to keeping their API up and running until the end of 2021.

Meteogram Weather Widget (Free / Pro)
The Swiss-Army Knife of Weather Widgets. This is an advanced widget with tons and tons of customization and visualization options. This is for advanced users who want much more than a download and done app. If you want something you can adjust and tweak to your heart's content- look no further.

Windy (Free)
Beautiful Weather App with fantastic widgets

Yr (Free)
Relatively less popular but similar in style to Dark Sky with great reviews

1Weather (Free)
Editor's Choice in Google Play Store and a household favorite

WeaWow (Free)
Widgets with both hourly and Daily forecasts

MyRadar (Free/Pro)
If you mainly just care about radar this is the way to go

Today Weather (Free)
Another all-around favorite and Google Play Editor's Choice

Appy Weather (Free)
The most personal and fun weather app (but not the most accurate)


CARROT Weather (Free)
Comic relief with a weather app. Choose your political affiliation in the settings and the app will make fun of you no matter who you support.

What's your suggested Dark Sky Alternative?

New App: CARROT Weather (Version 1.0.19)

WHAT'S NEW
It’s cold and flu season, meatbags! To celebrate, I added 9 new secret locations for you to hunt down.

xoxo,
CARROT

EXTRA INFO
  • Rating: 3.2
  • Installs: 100,000+
  • Download Size: 6.8M
  • Version: 1.0.19
DESCRIPTION
CARROT Weather is a crazy-powerful weather app that delivers hilariously twisted forecasts.

Accurate and Detailed
Dark Sky’s eerily accurate weather data gives you quick access to your current, hourly, and daily forecasts. Or just tap anywhere for more meteorological goodness.

Overflowing with Personality
From spooky fog to torrential downpours, CARROT’s dialogue and scenery change in… “unexpected” ways. You’ll actually be looking forward to a blizzard just to see what CARROT has in store for you!

Time Travel (Premium Club only)
View the weather for any location up to 70 years in the past or 10 years in the future! (Disclaimer: DeLorean not included.)

Widget (Premium Club only)
Add the customizable widget to your home screen so you can see what awful weather CARROT's sent your way without having to open the app.

Secret Locations
Follow clues to hunt down 32 secret locations - like the Moon, the Pyramids, and Chernobyl.

Features:
• Beautifully minimalist weather app
• Dark Sky’s super accurate weather data
• Customizable widget
• Weather time machine
• 6,000+ lines of hilarious spoken dialogue
• 32 secret locations

Join Premium Club to get access to a host of bonus features, like a customizable widget and weather time travel. Plus, you'll banish annoying ads to the Phantom Zone!

You can cancel your subscription at any time through your account setting on the Google Play Store and continue to enjoy premium content until the end of your paid subscription.

Don’t make CARROT angry. Download her now!

Terms of Use: http://support.meetcarrot.com/weather/terms.html
Privacy Policy: http://support.meetcarrot.com/weather/privacypolicy.html

New App: Yr (Version Varies with device)

WHAT'S NEW
- Support for Android 10 features
- Minor bugfixes

EXTRA INFO
  • Rating: 4.3
  • Installs: 5,000,000+
  • Download Size: Varies with device
  • Version: Varies with device
DESCRIPTION
New Yr on Android is different from anything else you’ve seen in weather forecasting: Scroll through a beautiful and animated sky to see how the weather changes hourly, and get all the need-to-know details at the same time.

The weather visualization makes it a fun experience to check the weather – even when it’s raining!

Forecasts are delivered by the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.

NEW APP FEATURES:

• Weather conditions in a visualized 48-hour forecast, with animated clouds, rain, snow and fog + details about wind, temperature and severe weather warnings.
• Long term forecast in table – hour by hour the first three days.
• Graph with more details on weather, temperature, wind and pressure.
• Live 90-minute precipitation forecast – our most accurate and updated rain forecast (only in Norway).
• Weather summary text.
• Choose the look of your widget
• Easy navigation between sky view, table and graph.
• Weather from 10 million places around the world with option to save your favorite places.

ABOUT US: Yr is a weather service jointly produced by NRK and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute. Our primary goals are to secure life and property, while delivering useful and accurate weather forecasts to our users, preparing them for all kinds of weather. This year we are celebrating our ten-year anniversary, and with millions of users every day we are proud of being one of the most popular weather services in the world.

New App: Weather & Widget - Weawow (Version 4.3.0)

WHAT'S NEW
Fixed a bug that the app would hang if the weather location is in Kuala Lumpur.

EXTRA INFO
  • Rating: 4.8
  • Installs: 1,000,000+
  • Download Size: 9.1M
  • Version: 4.3.0
DESCRIPTION
Weawow is a beautiful and highly accurate weather forecast application.
You can also sell your photos at the Weawow marketplace.



Accurate and detailed weather forecast for free
- Free without advertisement: No annoying advertisements are displayed at all.
- Beautiful photos and weather forecast: The beautiful photos posted by users are matched with the weather forecast and displayed, so you can see the weather conditions from the photographs.
- Corresponding weather forecast: live weather, today weather, tomorrow weather, 48 hour weather, weekly weather.
- Accurate and detailed weather: highest temperature, lowest temperature, live temperature, apparent (feels-like) temperature, probability of rain, precipitation, humidity, dew point, clouds cover, atmospheric pressure, wind speed, wind direction, UV index, visibility, air Quality, pollen.
- Covers worldwide: Countries, cities, spots, places, and local that can be searched using Google search.
- Supported languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Chinese, and 50 more languages.
- Animated radar map: rainy situation, temperature, cloud movement, wind movement, atmospheric pressure, waves, ocean current. All of these information can be seen up to 10 days ahead.
- Sun and Moon: Sunrise time, sunset time, twilight, moon phases, full moon day, new moon day, age of the moon.
- Bookmark: Manage your favorite places with bookmarks.
- Simple interface: You can get the necessary information by simply scrolling down the screen.
- Choose your favorite theme: Dark theme and white theme are available.



Beautiful widgets
- Weather forecast widget with pictures: Enjoy a richer home screen with beautiful pictures and weather forecast.
- Around 10 types of widget: Sizes range from 1x1 to 4x4. Changeable font size, background transparency, color, place, local time.
- Real time update: Automatically get the latest weather forecast.
- GPS support: Even if you move to another local, you will automatically get the weather information for that local.
- Clock, date: Supports local time. Launches calendar application and clock application.



Daily notification and On-going notification
- Push notification: Notifies the weather forecast for that day at the specified time.
- On-going notification: weather information up to 8 hours ahead, weekly weather, current weather.
- Weather on the status bar: Current temperature, today's highest temperature, today's lowest temperature, weather type.



Covers worldwide, in all cities
- Examples of supported countries: United State (US), Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom (UK), Spain, France, Germany, Russia, Turkey, India, China, Japan, Argentina, Brazil, and all other countries.
- Examples of supported cities: Washington DC, Chicago, New York, Hawaii, Boston, Houston, Denver, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, St Louis, Cleveland, London, Madrid, Paris, Stockholm, Rome, Berlin, Athens, Prague, Warsaw, Kyiv, Moscow, Ankara, New Delhi, Tokyo, Buenos Aires, and all other cities and local.



Posting and selling your photos
- You can post and sell your photos from Weawow's browser service.
- The posted photos are automatically displayed after being matched with the weather in the application as well.
https://weawow.com/marketplace



Weather information provider: Dark Sky, Weatherbit, MET (Yr), WWO, AccuWeather, WAQI

New App: Meteogram Pro Weather Widget (Version 3.8.5)

WHAT'S NEW
3.8.5:
• dark/light map theme for Map Picker in Location section which follows app theme
• internal improvements to widget updating reliability for locally-generated widgets
• widget button text on a rotated widget is now rotated correctly
• the two action buttons in the settings page slide up when snackbar message appears

EXTRA INFO
  • Rating: 4.6
  • Installs: 100,000+
  • Download Size: 9.2M
  • Version: 3.8.5
DESCRIPTION
Note

If you're looking to upgrade from the free version, please be aware that a less costly upgrade path is available in-app via the free version.

Summary

This resizable weather widget (and interactive app) provides a detailed and visually appealing weather forecast, allowing you very quickly to understand what to expect when you venture outdoors. The graphical format is commonly referred to as a 'meteogram'.

You can choose to display as little or as much information as you like, or you can set up multiple widgets showing different information (optionally for different places) in different widgets.

You can plot common weather parameters like temperature, wind speed and pressure, as well as tide charts, UV Index, wave height, moon phase, sunrise and sunset times, and much much more!

You can even display government-issued weather alerts in the header: those from National Weather Service (US), Environment Canada, and MeteoAlarm (Europe).

The content and style of the meteogram is extremely configurable... with over 1000 options to set, your imagination is the limit!

The widget is also fully resizable, so make it however small or large you like on your home screen! And the interactive app is just a click away, direct from the widget.

Furthermore, you can choose where your weather data comes from: the Norwegian Met Office (Meteorologisk Institutt), the German Met Office (Deutscher Wetterdienst or DWD), the Swedish Met Office (SMHI), the UK Met Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), or from several other weather forecast services (for example MeteoGroup and AccuWeather).

Pro Version

Compared to the free version, the pro version gives you the following extra benefits:

★ no adverts
★ no watermark on chart
★ favourite locations list
★ choice of weather icon set
★ change location (e.g. from favourites) direct from widget button
★ change data provider direct from widget button
★ link to windy.com direct from widget button
★ save/load settings to/from a local file and/or a remote server
★ include some historical or cached data in the meteogram
★ time machine (show weather or tides for any date, past or future)
★ greater choice of fonts
★ custom webfont (choose any from Google Fonts)
★ notifications (including temperature in status bar)

Platinum Upgrade

An in-app platinum upgrade will provide the following additional benefits:

★ use of all available weather data providers
★ use of tide data

Support and Feedback

We always welcome feedback or suggestions. Join our online community at Reddit (http://bit.ly/meteograms-reddit) or Slack (http://bit.ly/slack-meteograms), or email us using the handy link in the settings page in the app. Also check out the help pages at https://trello.com/b/ST1CuBEm, and the website (https://meteograms.com) for further information and an interactive meteogram map.

Explanation of app permissions

The permission relating to "access to the device's storage" is only to enable the (very useful) feature which allows your settings to be backed up to a file, so that they can later be loaded back (or shared with others). Note that, from Android 6, this permission anyway needs to be granted at runtime, so if you never grant this permission when it is requested, the app will never have access to your device's storage.

Similarly, regarding the permission for the "device's location", this is only needed when you enable the "detect and follow location" feature, where the meteogram is always generated for your current location. Again, if you don't need this feature, then you don't ever need to grant this permission, and the app will never know your location.

The "draw over other apps" permission is only needed for technical reasons when local chart generation is enabled. By default, this is not enabled, so the permission is never needed. Furthermore, nothing is ever actually drawn over other apps.

New App: Meteogram Weather Widget (Version 3.8.5)

WHAT'S NEW
3.8.5:
• dark/light map theme for Map Picker in Location section which follows app theme
• internal improvements to widget updating reliability for locally-generated widgets
• widget button text on a rotated widget is now rotated correctly
• the two action buttons in the settings page slide up when snackbar message appears

EXTRA INFO
  • Rating: 4.2
  • Installs: 50,000+
  • Download Size: 9.2M
  • Version: 3.8.5
DESCRIPTION
Summary

This resizable weather widget (and interactive app) provides a detailed and visually appealing weather forecast, allowing you very quickly to understand what to expect when you venture outdoors. The graphical format is commonly referred to as a 'meteogram'.

You can choose to display as little or as much information as you like, or you can set up multiple widgets showing different information (optionally for different places) in different widgets.

You can plot common weather parameters like temperature, wind speed and pressure, as well as tide charts, UV Index, wave height, moon phase, sunrise and sunset times, and much much more!

You can even display government-issued weather alerts in the header: those from National Weather Service (US), Environment Canada, and MeteoAlarm (Europe).

The content and style of the meteogram is extremely configurable... with over 1000 options to set, your imagination is the limit!

The widget is also fully resizable, so make it however small or large you like on your home screen! And the interactive app is just a click away, direct from the widget.

Furthermore, you can choose where your weather data comes from: the Norwegian Met Office (Meteorologisk Institutt), the German Met Office (Deutscher Wetterdienst or DWD), the Swedish Met Office (SMHI), the UK Met Office, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), or from several other weather forecast services (for example MeteoGroup and AccuWeather).

We recommend that you give it a go and explore the wealth of weather, marine and astronomical information available!

Upgrade to Platinum

In addition to the great features available in the free version, an in-app platinum upgrade is available which will give you the following extra benefits:

★ no adverts
★ no watermark on chart
★ favourite locations list
★ use of all available weather data providers
★ use of tide data
★ choice of weather icon set
★ change location (e.g. from favourites) direct from widget button
★ change data provider direct from widget button
★ link to windy.com direct from widget button
★ save/load settings to/from a local file
★ save/load settings to/from a remote server
★ include some historical or cached data in the meteogram
★ time machine (show weather or tides for any date, past or future)
★ greater choice of fonts
★ custom webfont (choose any from Google Fonts)
★ notifications (including temperature in status bar)

Support and Feedback

We always welcome feedback or suggestions. Join our online community at Reddit (http://bit.ly/meteograms-reddit) or Slack (http://bit.ly/slack-meteograms), or email us using the handy link in the settings page in the app. Also check out the help pages at https://trello.com/b/ST1CuBEm, and the website (https://meteograms.com) for further information and an interactive meteogram map.

Explanation of app permissions

The permission relating to "access to the device's storage" is only to enable the (very useful) feature which allows your settings to be backed up to a file, so that they can later be loaded back (or shared with others). Note that, from Android 6, this permission anyway needs to be granted at runtime, so if you never grant this permission when it is requested, the app will never have access to your device's storage.

Similarly, regarding the permission for the "device's location", this is only needed when you enable the "detect and follow location" feature, where the meteogram is always generated for your current location. Again, if you don't need this feature, then you don't ever need to grant this permission, and the app will never know your location.

The "draw over other apps" permission is only needed for technical reasons when local chart generation is enabled. By default, this is not enabled, so the permission is never needed. Furthermore, nothing is ever actually drawn over other apps.

New App: Windy.com - Weather Radar, Satellite and Forecast (Version 22.0307)

WHAT'S NEW
New webcams detail. Open any webcams detail and slide with your finger to check previous weather.
Several bug fixes and improvements.

EXTRA INFO
  • Rating: 4.8
  • Installs: 10,000,000+
  • Download Size: 33M
  • Version: 22.0307
DESCRIPTION
Windy (also known as Windyty) is an extraordinary tool for weather forecast visualization. This fast, intuitive, detailed and most accurate weather app is trusted by professional pilots, paragliders, skydivers, kiters, surfers, boaters, fishermen, storm chasers and weather geeks, and even by governments, army staffs and rescue teams.

Whether you are tracking a tropical storm or potential severe weather, planning a trip, pursuing your favourite outdoor sport, or you just need to know if it will rain this weekend, Windy provides you with the most up-to-date weather forecast around.

The uniqueness of Windy lies in the fact that it brings you better quality information than the other weather apps’ pro-features, while our product is absolutely free and even without ads.

Powerful, smooth and fluid presentation makes weather forecasting a real pleasure!

All forecast models at once
Windy brings you all the world's leading weather forecasting models: global ECMWF and GFS, plus local NEMS, AROME and ICON (for Europe) and NAM (for the USA).

40 weather maps
From wind, rain, temperature and pressure to swell or CAPE index, with Windy you will have all convenient weather maps just at your fingertips.

Satellite & Doppler radar
Global satellite composite is created from NOAA, EUMETSAT, and Himawari. The image frequency is 5-15 minutes based on area. Doppler radar covers large parts of Europe, America, Asia, and Australia.

Point of interests
Windy lets you display observed wind and temperature, forecasted weather, airports around the World, 1500+ paragliding spots or nearby webcams right on the map.

Fully customizable
Add your favourite weather maps to quick menu, customize colour palette on any layer, access advanced options in the settings. All that makes Windy the weather geek's tool of choice.

Features and data sources
✅ All leading weather forecast models: ECMWF, GFS by NOAA,
✅ Several local weather models NEMS, ICON, Arome and NAM
✅ High-Res satellite composite
✅ Forecast model comparison
✅ +40 global weather maps
✅ Weather radar for many world locations
✅ 16 altitude levels from the surface to 13.5km/FL450
✅ Metric or imperial units
✅ Detailed weather forecast for any location (temperature, rain and snow accumulation, wind speed, wind gusts and wind direction)
✅ Detailed Airgram and Meteogram
✅ Meteogram: temperature and dew point, wind speed and wind gusts, pressure, precipitation, altitude cloud cover
✅ Altitude and Time zone info, Sunrise and Sunset time for any location
✅ Customizable list of Favorite spots (with the option to create e-mail Alerts for upcoming weather conditions)
✅ Nearby weather stations (Real-time observed weather - Reported wind direction, wind speed and temperature)
✅ 50k+ Airports searchable by ICAO and IATA, including runway info, decoded & raw METARs, TAF and NOTAMs
✅ 1500+ Paragliding spots
✅ Detailed wind and wave forecast for any kiting or surfing spot
✅ Webcams
✅ Tide forecast
✅ Topographic maps by Mapy.cz and Satellite imagery by Here Maps
✅ English + 40 other world languages
...and many more


Get in touch
Join us at community.windy.com to discuss weather related topics or suggest new feature.

Follow us on social media
• Facebook: facebook.com/windyforecast
• Twitter: twitter.com/windyforecast
• YouTube: youtube.com
• Instagram: instagram.com/windy_forecast

***The Official Coronavirus 'Work From Home' Thread***

Firstly, I can make ***official*** threads because I'm famous for them around here, literally. So, it's not arrogant, it's fact. See this world famous thread. ;)

So, all kidding aside. What do you do for a living and how are you coping with working during the virus? How does it work for you? Is it indeed working? How has your work day changed since Covid-19?

Let's keep it personal and not political. Politics goes to Politics and Current Affairs. (Why it's called current affairs and not current events? I do not know, but that's another topic).

Give me some infos and then I'll share. I can't, right now, because i'm working (from home).

Hotspot and bluetooth

I'm using my s10 plus hotspot to stream Zoom from ipad air while using the same phone for bluetooth connection with my speaker through my galaxy watch. Meeting participants claim that although they can hear both my voice and my music fine, the music volume level goes in and out sometimes. My question is:

If I turn off bluetooth on my ipad will that help stabilize the sound from my bluetooth speaker?

Help Not getting English subtitles on unlockmyttv on Fire Stick

Recently I haven't been able to get just English subtitles on this APK. When I click on play with subtitles or download with subtitles it initially says OpenSubtitles but then "Makedie" comes up and it will give me Chinese subtitles coupled with English subtitles. Is there a fix for this? Are any of you having this problem? This is for unlockmyTTV, not unlockmytv. You can reply here or email me at mikerock300@yahoo.com.

Thank you for your help.

Quarantine Games: What To Play? Share Your Ideas!

I'm looking for the best "Quarantine Games" to play with family and friends near and far. Not only am I asking for my own personal interest but the best suggestions will also be featured in an upcoming Android Forums newsletter.

HouseParty
Video conferencing app for iOS and Android with games built-in!

Skribbl.io
Pictionary style game that works in your browser (computers and phones). Create a private room, send the link to your friends, then watch a short advertisement and you'll begin playing! (suggested by @Khloe Hunter

Zoom Conferencing
A fun video conferencing platform for Web, iOS, and Android. Use this to chat while you play another game together!

And here is a humongous list:
300+ Android Games for Quarantining with Family

What are your Quarantine Games suggestions? Share them below!

New App: Houseparty (Version 1.34.5)

WHAT'S NEW
What’s better than an unlocked Houseparty room? Probably nothing. This version has new Quick Draw colors so you can really show off all the artistic skills you’ve honed at home. Happy Housepartying!

EXTRA INFO
  • Rating: 3.7
  • Installs: 10,000,000+
  • Download Size: Varies with device
  • Version: 1.34.5
DESCRIPTION
Houseparty is the face-to-face social network where you can connect with the people you care about most. The app makes connecting face to face effortless, alerting you when your friends are “in the house” and ready to chat so you can jump right into the conversation. The same goes for you opening the app! Your friends will know you’re in the app and ready to chat, so they can join you (…because rejected calls are so last year). Houseparty is truly the next best thing to hanging out in person. See your friends more often on Houseparty.

Questions? Comments? Just want a friendly hello?
hello@houseparty.com
Twitter/Instagram: @houseparty

lock screen help

I have a Galaxy Note 10+. There are two quick apps on the lock screen. I want to change those. Which I did in settings and it worked fine. However at some point it always switches back to the two original apps. Those are the default I guess. No matter how many times I change them they always switch back. I'm stuck. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide. Be safe!

Accessories Ideas on development office setup

Hi,
I'm looking for ideas for my workstation office setup. I've posted pictures of both of my offices below. I have two computers (both laptops) that need to be repaired before I can use them. I would install Linux on both of them. I also have an android tablet that I pretty much inherited when I moved in to this location. It's not pictured in here but I was thinking that I could have an office desk mount for the tablet to use the tablet as a second display. Note that there is room for one more desktop computer and I posted an ad on craigslist for another donated computer. Both of these computers are in two different rooms. I'm looking for ideas on how to improve these setups/workstations for development. And yes I already know that the shop area needs to be cleaned. The last two pictures are an idea of the setups that I'm trying to get:

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This is what I'm trying to get the shop area to look similar to.

Need Metro response immediately!

I've sent metro multiple emails about this as their call center they keep referring me to isn't open. They gave my number to someone else without telling me and I paid $49 on someone else's bill, I'm extremely infuriated that no one is manning the call center or emails as I need my freaking phone on or my money back. I've exhausted all other options on contacting them... please help

MMS Trouble

I started having “mms” trouble with an unlocked Sony Xperia and Straight Talk as my service provider. For 1 year I had not had trouble then I had 3 months of problems with no answers; now it’s like an infection. I can’t find answers to the issue of mms messages that won’t open. Many open but then some don’t. I have talked to tech departments, researched blogs and taken the phone to a repair shop - no success.
I purchased a newer Sony and tried a new service provider - nothing changed so I returned it; now
I am trying a SamsungGalaxy 50 thinking that the Sony Xperia was the common thread in this mms trouble.
I like the Samsung, but the same thing is happening with the same service provider. I receive blue “download buttons” that won’t download. Occasionally the button will appear and then download, and sometimes I have no issue. HELP me understand this. I cannot possibly be the only one with this issue.
I have checked settings and APN’s.

Samsung Galaxy S8 and Samsung Pay.

I have now found out that Samsung Pay is compatible with my UK Bank.

I have (apparently) successfully set up Samsung Pay on my Galaxy S8 phone, though I have jet to try it out.

The problem I now have is this....

Before the installation of Samsung Pay swiping up on the screen brought up all the apps on the phone

After the installation of Samsung Pay swiping up on the screen now opens Samsung Pay.

My question is this...how do I access the list of apps on the phone?

Black Display when using a mouse

I connected a Microsoft mouse to my Huawei MediaPad M5 lite using an OTG cable. Everything works well, except for one thing that I can't figure out: when I start a video on Netflix or Amazon Prime, the screen goes black, but film and sound continue to run in the background. When I then touch the display with my finger, the image reappears, when I move the mouse it disappears. Youtube and VLC player work perfectly. When I open Twitter everything is normal, as soon as I scroll a bit with the mouse there is a kind of gray veil over the image that disappears when you touch the display with your finger. I've already connected a Logitech mouse, but the result was the same.
Does anyone have an idea why this might be ?
Thanks in advance !

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