[Android Themes] riorancho:
Great Skin

First off please make sure you hit the thanks button for the hard work that this member has put into this skin. It was time consuming. So I have two questions/thoughts. Did you design this skin for your own use and just shared your great work with others or did you design it for others to use? I ask the second question because depending on where you live in the U.S. or in another Country, the weather conditions may not apply. I live in the Southern U.S., (Florida) so I never get snow.

If everyone is familiar with Rainmeter for Windows and Geek Tool/Apple Script for Mac, they use the same Yahoo weather URL pull to get your weather forecast for your area that you live onto your phone.

The 6 weather conditions that are on the skin don't apply to a lot of area's. ie, example, I never see snow and see more Fog and Smoke than I do Haze. So I get no icon when those conditions appear off Yahoo.

For my Mac I use a Apple Script that pulls weather off Yahoo and matches the description to the current conditions.

I use Flat White Weather Icons for my Mac that have a daytime and night icons, and have changed the png files names to match the conditions below. Now take it that you don't have to create a different icon for each condition,ie, drizzle and showers could be the same icon, with a different file name.

Taken off page one of this forum are the current weather conditions that Yahoo uses, make the following icons for your weather sets:

What I get in my area where I live is marked with a "Y"

tornado "Y"

tropical storm "Y"

hurricane "Y"

severe thunderstorms "Y"

thunderstorms "Y"

mixed rain and snow

mixed rain and sleet

mixed snow and sleet

freezing drizzle

drizzle "Y"

freezing rain

showers "Y"

snow flurries

light snow showers

blowing snow

snow

hail "Y"

sleet "Y"

dust "Y"

foggy "Y"

haze "Y"

smoky "Y"

blustery

windy "Y"

cold "Y" Yes it does get cold in the Southern U.S. have had over week of freezing frost weather

cloudy "Y"

mostly cloudy "Y"

partly cloudy "Y"

clear "Y"

sunny "Y"

fair "Y"

mixed rain and hail

hot "Y"

isolated thunderstorms "Y"

scattered thunderstorms "Y"

scattered showers "Y"

scattered snow showers

heavy snow

thundershowers "Y"

snow showers

isolated thundershowers "Y"

In closing I think the skin is great and shows a lot of thought and imagination that has gone into it. On the other hand if you want other members to enjoy it, it might be nice to be able to customize the skin to each person's needs.

Make the background so you can ALPHA it

In the left hand box only have one line for current conditions which would be taken off the Yahoo weather url and match the current icon conditions

Add in the left hand box 2nd and 3rd day forecast with icons

Make space for notification area's G mail, Text Messages, Phone call ect

And the hardest part make more icons. I don't think they need to be made on the skin background, just a separate png file for icons that you would install in the weather folder in UCCW

So please everybody don't jump on me, I think the work is wonderful and I hit THANKS every chance I get. Keep up the good work. I hope I don't get any back lash as my point of this is to help other use this great skin to the best of each of our abilities. HIT THE THANKS BUTTON!!!!