yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
TexasRules777, thanks for the screenshot. Another person reported a similar issue in Danish with the same widget. Can you tell us if that location is "Current Location" or a manual location you put in? If it is "Current Location", can you try making the same widget with a manual location just to confirm its the same issue we've already learned about?

Thanks for the assist!
[Android Apps and Games] Dream of Electric Sheep:
Really smart looking.
[Android Apps and Games] blackbearblanc:
My bug came up when selecting transparent background
[Android Apps and Games] renatoram:
I'm testing beta2 on my Asus TF101 and I have to say I'm impressed so far.

I still have the DST problem/issue, but I understand that's being worked on (that is, my timezone is GMT+1, but with DST in effect my current time should be GMT+2).

Also, if I may make a suggestion, it would be useful (and simpler) to have an initial setup question such as "Are you in the US?" that sets the Farenheit and Imperial units all around, and Celsius/Metric for everyone else (since the US are basically the only place in the world that use Imperial measures nowadays). It sure would cut on your support questions about how to set Celsius (I found it, but it's not the most intuitive process. Also my default "current location" location remained in Imperial units because it had been created before).
[Android Apps and Games] whipping:
Looks very nice, it would be good if we can call another app by pressing the clock (alarm for instance)
[Android Apps and Games] Lord Takyon:
My only suggestions are as follows:

Ability to deactivate gps checking, most of my time is split between 3 locations,

Ability to select custom app when touching clock.

Awesome app guys. :-)

Sent from my XperiaS via subspace beacon.
[Android Apps and Games] TexasRules777:
It was "current location" ..a simple force stop and restart fixed it. Didn't try a manual location since it fixed itself but if if happens again I will. And like another user stated after me it was with the transparent widget that it happened on.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
blackbearblanc, thank you for the extra details. It seems this issue happens no matter what the background is so we'll have to dig into it a bit more.

renatoram, I appreciate your feedback. I should have been more clear explaining what we changed in Beta 2 for data unit detection. I'll cover that in another post shortly.

Lord Takyon, we are working on a better way to handle the GPS usage issue that we hope will prevent the need to remove or have a setting to enable/disable GPS. Hang on, I'll have more details soon. Also, we've put the feature request in for getting to an assignable clock and date app launcher, so we'll have to see how that stacks up against our other must-have items to ship.

TexasRules777, thanks for the additional info. We're looking at this day overdraw issue today as our first priority.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
One of the big changes going from Beta 1 to Beta 2 was better handling of weather data unit detection, or "do you want Celsius or Fahrenheit?" Here's what we did to improve the situation.

New General Settings:

We have added three new settings to better handle weather and time: Global Temperature, Global Weather Data and Global Time Display. These settings apply to any new locations created after Global settings are changed. They do not impact existing locations.

For Fresh/New Install Customers:

Recast will look at the Android language settings when it is first installed and setup. If the language is EN-US, Recast will select US Imperial data units and Fahrenheit temperatures. If the language is anything other than EN-US, Recast will set UK Metric data units and Celsius temperatures. In both cases, the settings will be applied to the Global settings listed above.

For Existing Upgrade Customers:

No changes will be applied to any of the existing locations. The new General Global settings will stay the same as the initial install: US Imperial and Fahrenheit. Changing the Global settings will only apply to new locations created after the Global settings change.

Hopefully this better explains how the temperature and weather units are detected and how they now apply in Recast. Let us know if there is additional information needed or there are more changes needed to make things work better for you.
[Android Apps and Games] verynuclear:
Big WoW for one of the best apps I have ever seen

Sent from my HOX CyanogenMod 9
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
verynuclear, thanks for the kind words. We're trying to make Recast stand out from the rest of the weather and widget apps out there. Give us a bit more time and we should have a few more cool features to add before releasing a final version.
[Android Apps and Games] verynuclear:
This app is really awesome and has rich features.

I will buy it immediately if published to store.

Congratulation mstroud.

Sent from my HOX CyanogenMod 9
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
verynuclear, thanks again. I certainly can't take the credit, Recast is a team effort from all of us here at Phase 2 Industries. We're a small but dedicated group who want to make some great apps for a wide section of the public. Our first app, Impel, didn't do as well as we would have liked, so our efforts on Recast are aimed at a much broader audience.

Hopefully we will have details to share soon about our plans for putting Recast into the Google Play Store and Amazon Appstore. In the meantime, try it out and let us know if you find any issues or areas that could be improved. We appreciate the feedback.
[Android Apps and Games] verynuclear:
The first issue in 3x2 widget.

The days appear overlapped.

Edit... I see in a previous post that this is a known issue.

love the app anyway.

Sent from my HOX CyanogenMod 9
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
verynuclear, thanks for that report. We have details about this from a couple of other customers as well. It seems to be isolated to just that 3x2 widget, so we are trying to narrow down what the issue could be. It does seem to clear itself up automatically at some point in the early morning hours (or it did for us here at the office)... or you can stop and restart Recast and that seemed to fix it for one person.
[Android Apps and Games] verynuclear:
Yes, It is fixed with its own after one and half hour of midnight.

Sent from my HOX CyanogenMod 9
[Android Apps and Games] euqiddis:
Thanks for the refresh on teh widget, any plans for a 4x1 forecast widget?
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
euqiddis, a couple of new widget updates, including a 4x1 forecast layout, will make it into the next beta release. Hang in there.
[Android Apps and Games] euqiddis:
w0000t
[Android Apps and Games] mtheis1987:
Hi,

First off, nice work, looks really good ;)

Got a bug, cant change from farenheit to celsius also im getting imperial not metric values...

maybe someone could help, or maybe the next update will fix this ?

Greetz ;)

EDIT: Found it... Had to push and hold the location to change the settings... so, its perfect no bugs for me so far ;)
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
mtheis1987,

As of the Beta 2 release, Recast auto-detects the language/region and sets the default data units correctly for you. If you installed Beta 2 on top of Beta 1, Recast kept the original settings which were all US related. This should be a non-issue for people starting with Beta 2 and with the final release.

Thanks for letting us know you are all good now.
[Android Apps and Games] HiM@L:
time problem

widget looks good but i see that the time is an hour late...

running...Tmobile GS2 AOKP.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
hlimbu00, we are aware of the time zone offset issue. It is on our list of things to fix in the next beta release. Thanks for the information.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Here's a little preview of the 4x1 forecast widget coming soon in Beta 3.
[Android Apps and Games] aussiebum:
Looks good, but for me it's lacking a "manual refresh only" option.

I don't want any auto weather / location updating at all (mainly to save battery).
[Android Apps and Games] FitChicago:
Really like this widget; really great job developing this, it has great potential.

One element I would love to see is when clicking on the weather to go to complete forecast that you might consider incorporating the hourly forecast for the next 24 hours.

Again, great job!
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
aussiebum, thanks for the feedback. We'll look and see what could be done for a manual-only update process. In the meantime you can set Recast to check for weather just once per 24 hours and look for a new location every hour in the Settings, General area.

FitChicago, thanks for the compliments. We have had some folks ask for an hourly forecast but our weather providers don't offer that data. We'll keep our eyes open to other possible options to get people to that information in a future release.
[Android Apps and Games] Psychoticus:
I just installed the latest .apk as of the OP and I can confirm that the temps are in Fahrenheit not Celsius.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Psychoticus, can you confirm two data points for us?

1. Is your device locale setup for something other than EN-US?

2. Can you check in Recast, About to make sure you have Beta 2?

3. Did you completely uninstall any previous version of Recast before installing Beta 2?

You are the first person since the Beta 2 update to tell us that the fixes we put in place for picking the correct weather data settings didn't work. I want to make sure we did actually get the issue resolved, so your information is very important to us.

Thanks for the assistance!
[Android Apps and Games] deckoff:
Have a very similar problem:

current location will stay in F, though settings are set to C. Newly added locations, though, will show temperature in C.

Kind a slow update of screen when sliding between different location screens.

1. Device is set to English - Bulgarian

2. i just downloaded it, it is beta 2

3. I never installed any other versions of Recast.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
deckoff, thanks for the information! I'll ask our team to look specifically at the current location settings for the Beta 3 release.

We have made some performance improvements in Beta 3 that we hope you will find improves the full screen Recast experience.
[Android Apps and Games] Psychoticus:
Here you go. Also this is the first time installing the app, no previous versions have ever been installed. My location is set to Australia too BTW

Also big props for such a quick response!!!
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Psychoticus, thanks for that. Is "Rhodes" a manual location or a "current" location? That does matter when we check the issue.
[Android Apps and Games] Psychoticus:
Rhodes is a "Current" location located in Sydney, NSW, Australia if that helps at all.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Yes, that is helpful data. We think we know where the problem is now and we'll make an effort to get that fixed in the Beta 3 release.

If you run into any other items please let us know. We were planning to do the Beta 3 release shortly, but we will hold it back to make sure we get this issue fixed first.
[Android Apps and Games] Psychoticus:
I'm glad I could help. please let me know via PM if I can help any further!
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Certainly, we will let you know when the next beta gets released, and ask you to see if the "current location" issue is solved in your case.
[Android Apps and Games] Psychoticus:
Great!

Also it doesn't seem like you can force the unit of measurement. what if for example I went to the states but wanted it still listed in Celsius?
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Psychoticus, both the temperature and data units are settings in Recast > Settings > General, as of Beta 2. So, assuming the fix for the "current location" issue goes into the next beta release, both settings will be set at install time and both should apply to all locations, current and manual, that you have.

I have my fingers crossed that it will be a quick fix once we have someone check on that area of the code.
[Android Apps and Games] swiss420:
Great App runs more or less ok on a Samsung Galaxy Note with Stock ROM. Did find a little problem with one of the 3x2 Widgets see attached Screenshot. The 5x2 Widget does not work on my Galaxy Note. Keeps saying it does not have enough space. Is that on purpose or should it work on a Samsung Galaxy Note? That would be great to have since it is missing in most widgets.
[Android Apps and Games] Jay Rock:
Awesome. Works great on my Galaxy Tab 10.1.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
swiss420, thanks for the data. We know about the day name overwriting itself and it is fixed in the next release (beta 3).

As for the Galaxy Note, we don't have one to test with but our tablets and TVs do work just fine with the 5x2 widget. Is it possible that the Galaxy Note has different display metrics than other devices of similar size? Can you create, with Recast, both a 4x1 and a 1x1 widget and place them side-by-side on your device and screenshot it for us? That will tell us if your device settings are different than what we expect to see for that size screen and layout.

Thanks you!
[Android Apps and Games] Private Company:
Hey i'm on a GT-i9100 and found something that you'll probably wanna fix :p

I can't set my degrees in Celsius. standard it was in C but it shows in Fahrenheit.

Tried to set it to F and then back with no succes..

Hope this helps :eek:

Grtz
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Private Company, we think we know the details of this issue, but just to confirm with you on your device: if you create a manual location and set it to Celsius, does that work?

If you need help on how to create your own location, let us know. Thanks for helping us test Recast!
[Android Apps and Games] Private Company:
Then it works in Celsius :D

I'll use it like this then untill it is fixed.

Thx!
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Good to hear. Be on the look out for Beta 3 where we should have this issue fixed for "current location" users.
[Android Apps and Games] Private Company:
Brusine command

I'll subscribe to one of your channels, wouldn't wanna mis :p
[Android Apps and Games] swiss420:
Sure posted the Screenshots in my last post. 4x1 and a 1x1 works and since the programm is extremely flexible it even looks good. Still offcourse the 5x2 would be great to have. :) I am impressed by the app offers allot of options. Great work. Love the transparent backgrounds.
[Android Apps and Games] S0ci0:
I was looking for a new weather app, and you guys come along :D. I will give this a try, thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
swiss420, thanks for those updated screens. Yikes, the Settings menus really shouldn't look like that! My guess is that the Galaxy Note is just wide enough that it looks like a tablet to Recast, but not wide enough to give Recast the widget spacing it expects in a tablet layout. We'll have to try a few things internally and get back to you on this.

Would you be willing to test some things out for us? Do you have a way to force the Android Launcher on the home screen into a landscape mode and then try adding Recast's 5x2 widget? Barring that, we'll need to get our hands on an actual Galaxy Note to see if we can fix the layout issues.

Thanks for your input.
[Android Apps and Games] chismay:
hi guys will be testing this out on iconia a500 flexreaper rom 4.0.3 1.0.3.0 :D

---------- Post added at 08:21 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:12 AM ----------

first impressions, checking to use celcius doesnt change from F' :(
[Android Apps and Games] swiss420:
Sure I am glad to test anything you need. Unfortunately in Order to get TouchWiz on Stock Gingerbread ROM in Landscape it would need to be rooted. Almost embarrassed to say it but it is not rooted yet. Will do so soon but I did download Go Launcher EX to see if it might work under that. Sure enough there it runs fine. Must be a problem with TouchWiz. Might that already help a little. Will check in a second what TouchWiz Version I am running and add it here. I guess TouchWiz UI 4.0 but I am not sure how to double check that.
[Android Apps and Games] stoudamire:
Same here. Even if I change it to Celcius in the general settings, it still displays the temperature in Fahrenheit.
[Android Apps and Games] MFire:
You must change it twice. Once for the global settings and once in the widget settings.
[Android Apps and Games] stoudamire:
I´m talking about the app itself. This is definitely a bug and has to be changed.

I just tried the widget, but I do not see any extra setting for the temperature scale.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
OK folks, Beta 3 is now posted. Jump back the top of this thread for details and the link.

PLEASE NOTE: If you are upgrading from any previous version of Recast and want all the new widgets, fonts and Celsius/Metric settings on your device you must uninstall all previous versions of Recast before updating to Beta 3.

Let us know how it goes. And thanks, as always for your feedback!
[Android Apps and Games] MFire:
Edit: Sorry. Not the widget settings but location settings. You press on the location and you access individual settings. I don't think it's a bug.
[Android Apps and Games] stoudamire:
Thanks for your reply. I didn´t realise that you can customise every location.

However, I just installed BETA3 and it instantly changed to Celcius.

The UI is quite nice. I will give it a try and report any problems. Thanks for your efforts.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Customizing every location individually, as well as each widget look, is one of the things we think makes Recast great. You can be as unique and individual looking as you want.

And for those of us odd folk in the USA, we can learn all about Celsius and Metric units when we add locations in from overseas :)

Hopefully Beta 3 will solve the C/F conversion issues people were seeing with "current locations" and we'd be happy if you told us it did. For now, though, the team is off to sleep. We'll check back in during the morning hours US PST, to see how it goes.
[Android Apps and Games] stoudamire:
Ok, I checked the app and I have some suggestions.

I tried out the 2x2 widget and the 1x1 widget. In the 2x2 widget, the font size of the temperature on the bottom line is quite small and therefore very difficult to read. Further on, I think it´s not necessary to have low "Hi" and "Lo" in front of the temperatures as it should be clear.

I would love a 1x2 widget which shows the current temperature and weather conditions on the left side and the high and low temperate of today on the right side. Maybe you can realise it.

Overall, I am really pleased with the UI and the functionality of the app. I think you have a lot of potential here.

---------- Post added at 10:40 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:36 AM ----------

I totally agree with you. Customizing every location individually is a great plus. I just oversaw this function. Germans just like to complain. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] MFire:
Please add the options to select Manual in the Update Weather and especially Location Fervency. It would give us more control over our data usage and prevent (small) battery drain.
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
OK, last post for the evening (now morning), really!

MFire, don't worry, we have your request in our to-do list. I think it will make it into the final release of the product.

stoudamire, we'll see if we can correct the 2x2 widgets on the next release. As for 1x2, well, that's a strange layout so I'm not sure that will make it into final product. We may have another way to get what you want, but I have to keep it a secret for now.
[Android Apps and Games] swiss420:
The Weekdays now appear in German. Are you planning on translating the app to different languages eventually?

Beta 3 Recast Process seems to use less RAM. Sometimes it jumps from 19Mb up to 23MB but goes back down to 19MB again. With the Beta 2 it would constantly stay on 26MB.

PS: Will the required Permissions get adjusted for the final version? Seems to request allot of rights for a Weather App. Less is more in these regards. ;)
[Android Apps and Games] dddrko:
Location frequency is unecessary parameter and setted too low btw (max 1 hour). The application should check for the location only when updating weather. Overall, great application!
[Android Apps and Games] gallery:
I dont have a option for weather and clock in 4x2 widget

Help please
[Android Apps and Games] aj9507:
Testing using SGS II running cm9 custom rom so far so good. Glad to help the community

Sent from CM9 powered XDA posting machine
[Android Apps and Games] Bobvark:
Looks good my feature request is for the actual percent chance of rain on the 4x1 widget. Also large tablet widgets. Thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] Metallijim:
Looking very good

Been using this today.

Like the customizations, looking forward to more

I think the only thing missing for me is a real feel temperature

Otherwise great app
[Android Apps and Games] AndyCosmos:
So far very impressive , would like to have the options to manually refresh the weather and location in general setting . :)
[Android Apps and Games] BuzzyMind:
@mstroud dude.. I can not make the widget show Celsius instead of Fahrenheit.. I go to General => Global Temperature Units => select Celsius and it doesn't work... is it a bug or I'm doing it wrong?

Phone: Xperia Neo stock ICS.

EDIT: Sorry dude.. I was doing it wrong.. I should have gone into locations select my location and change the temperature units... GREAT app btw!! awesome looks!
[Android Apps and Games] SlimMan:
Bandwidth Limit Exceeded so I can't download.. another link?

Thanks, Slim!
[Android Apps and Games] Finiarel01:
Thanck you so much for the app. I have the same proble with the hour (one hour less). I thinck it's because you didn't tough to the "summer time". When i tap "Time zone" in the location menu, i can't change the zone (actually GMT+1).

If you want some traductor for multi language, i'm volunteer for French. (I'm better to translate in french ^^)

EDIT : i just tried to create a new location with my city, the hour is the good one, but still not in the located city...
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
Wow! The XDA community really showed up in force today on our servers. We weren't expecting that and as some of you have seen the servers fell over. We're working on another solution for hosting, so stay tuned and we'll have an updated link for you shortly.

For those of you with questions or requests, please be patient and we'll get back to you as soon as we solve the server hosting issues.

Thank you so much for your patience.
[Android Apps and Games] xhepera:
That's because you made front page news on XDA today. My download went fine though about an hour ago. :)
[Android Apps and Games] chismay:
i got to be honest ive uninstalled many apps because of too much customization, i mean i just want a nice widget that displays my location weather, in celcius, with a preview of the next few days at the bottom of the widget, example of setting celcius over and over is just...well......i got more important things to do lol.:p
[Android Apps and Games] mstroud:
And our servers are back. You can continue downloading now!
[Android Apps and Games] dps33:
I just did and looks good. Specially I like that I have settings for each location specially for C and F.

One thing you can add that would be so cool is that If I have multiple locations then on widget I can cycle thru rather then going to full page to see second and third location. Either swipe sideways or up and down on the widget to see other locations.
[Android Apps and Games] Jettubby:
I absolutely love the app but found one bug. I'm using the 4x1 widget. I've set the preferences to "24-hour time format" and it still shows the 12-hr format?? Maybe it's the ROM I'm on or a bug? FYI
[Android Apps and Games] 21productionz:
What launcher are you using? Tw and apex have known issues with that error. There are fixes in most rom threads.

FJ pimped my pride