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[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quicksilver53:
I don't think that one has an edge over the other. I rooted mine a year ago and I switch back and forth between Android Revolution HD, which is a sense based ROM and a GPE ROM by Bigxie. I would say try them both out, or similar ROMs and make your mind up from there. Good luck.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
You just found a ? magical weather app!

Meet YoWindow Weather.

Play Store: Awesome Weather YoWindow

What's so special?

? The landscapes.

When it's raining outside, it is raining in the app, and people open their umbrellas.

Birds are singing and animals are strolling about in the Village. People and cars abound in the City. Planes are landing at the Airport. Sheep are grazing in the Valley.

⛅ Motion in time. Swipe the screen to scroll the time forward.

That's how you watch the weather forecast in YoWindow.

? The sun sets at the same time as in the real world. The phase of the moon is real.

? The seasons are changing along with nature 5 times a year.

? Yes, you can set YoWindow as your Live Wallpaper. And there are a bunch of widgets.

? The weather on your photo. Any weather condition looks natural on photographs. Try to make a landscape from the view of your window.

?️ Radar and Weather Map.

? Make your Android happy.

- Temperature on the status bar.

- Weather forecast in the notification area.

- Alarm clock with the weather — two in one — wake up to the sounds of nature.

- Screensaver (Daydream) "weather on the phone screen."

- Android TV support.

The link to BETA version (no ads)

https://rink.hockeyapp.net/apps/a8f060f7c81e002fb219aa8648b53fb7

Unlimited edition.

Play Store: YoWindow Weather

No ads, all photo-landscapes available, weather forecast in notification area.

If you have an idea or found a problem - let us know.

Pavel Repkin
[Android Apps and Games] egzthunder1:
I just added the link to your OP. Hope it helps :)
[Android Apps and Games] bubbl3:
Widget looks great on my MI3, great job :good:
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
We are very greateful egzthunder1 for featuring YoWindow on XDA.

Otherwise the project would gone unnoticed.

Thank you for the wonderful review!

Guys, my name is Pavel, I'm one of the authors of the project.

AMA!
[Android Apps and Games] masterinc:
Hope you guys can add Mi Pad (Xiaomi) as one of the compatible devices
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
YoWindow supports Android 2.3+

As far as I can see Mi Pad runs on Android 4.4.

So what's up?
[Android Apps and Games] MidnightDevil:
Works wonders guys! Great job! Looks really neat on my Nexus 5 ;)
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Thank you :)
[Android Apps and Games] nek46:
Good evening a question please This application is only for tablet ? thanks
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
YoWindow is a universal app - both for tablets and smart phones!
[Android Apps and Games] nek46:
try the BETA version seems to work well

How do I delete some cities ?

Is it possible to Create widget 4X1 thanks
[Android Apps and Games] rockingondrums:
I'll give it a try. I'm still looking for the perfect weather app.

My only deal breaker when it comes to weather apps: Clocks. I hate clock widgets. I hate weather widgets that have clocks on them. I can't understand why they are so prevalent. It's torture.
[Android Apps and Games] dud3me:
Looks, nice however got a nice bootloop when trying to pen it on the n7 2013 running L. Is it only good up to kk?
[Android Apps and Games] flippy12:
Option to delete a city appears when you long-press a city ;)

Question about addition of a city in the database:

I wanted to add the city "l'Hospitalet de l'Infant" in Spain, and added the request on the website. But I had some difficulties to understand how to find its geoname-id (even I read the forum). I finally found it, and added it, but maybe you could add in your forum a simple way to get it, for people like who don't know :D

Else all is ok, widget and wallpaper. It's very nice.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
To delete a city follow these steps

1. Tap on location name to open the list of favorite locations

2. Long tap on the location you want to delete.

A popup menu to appear.

3. Choose Delete from the menu,

No, widget 4x1 is not available yet.

Stay tuned!
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
There are no clocks so far in YoWindow widgets.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
We are having a minor problem with our servers.

As soon as it will be resolved the location should be available on Android and iOS.

I expect in 30 - 50 minutes.

Thank you so much for such a positive comment :)
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
YoWindow is not supporting L, unfortunately so far.

That's because of a piece of C++ code that crashes by an unknown reason.

We don't have a device to test L on.

So that's kind of a problem.

I hope to take care about it after the release rush is over.

Thanks for reporting anyway ;)
[Android Apps and Games] flippy12:
Thx, there is nothing urgent, of course.

Can I suggest you something: on the widget, there is no option to update its parameters directly. Could we imagine to have a "parameter" icon on the widget?
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
I'm not sure if I understand you correctly.

Do you mean "Update weather" button?
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
:)

It's always a pleasure to here from the fans.

Thank you!

Still we actively working on the project.

Expect a huge surprise this year.
[Android Apps and Games] Waxim1:
[MENTION=5956306]par128[/MENTION] good job, I really like it. However, can you plz create option to add Time and Date(mm/dd/yy format) on 4x2 widget? That would be great, thanks.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Why do you need time?

It is already displayed in Android status bar... :confused:
[Android Apps and Games] Waxim1:
I like clock on home screen. And also max/min temp forecast of the day on 4x2 widget. This is what I am missing otherwise it is great.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
OK, thanks for the feedback, we will take this into account on the next iteration of widget design.
[Android Apps and Games] TheDudeAbides:
Just downloaded your app on my Nexus 5 and nexus 7. Looks and feels fantastic! Thanks for your time putting this together and getting the XDA version with no ads! Keep it up fellows!
[Android Apps and Games] :
A very nice app :D

Thanks a lot!

I don't know if you consider user recommendations, but here's mine anyway :p

It'd be great if you add a dashclock plugin. the yoweather live wallpaper fits perfectly as a lockscreen background, but the data displayed using the native dashclock weather widget don't always match what's displayed in yoweather. Making your own weather plugin would solve this ;)

This is just an idea I have, feel free to consider or ignore it :)
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Thank you! :)
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
I have no idea what dashclock is, but I'm going to find out after the app launch rush.

Thanks for the tip!
[Android Apps and Games] zxcslo:
I just install apk and my phone gets bezerk... No Wi-Fi, reboots it self, apss started to open and close it self... Removed the app and everything is normal now?! I'm on PA 4.45 with faux kernel.:cyclops:
[Android Apps and Games] SethKyros:
The app itself and the widgets are certainly amazing, I would happily replace my current one with it if not for a slight issue. Also, in terms of things that could improve, it would be nice to have a few more customization options on the widget, such as refresh speed, colors, etc. And since someone asked for a clock, having the option to both have it or not would be nice, since I personally see no point to waste space on that, but for some people it can be useful.

With that said, my issue is that for whatever reason the app destroyed my audio volume. Both my phone ringtone and my notifications volumes are OK, but as soon as I used the option to remove the sounds from the app, my music/audio volume is permanently fixed on mute. Wiping the app's data was enough to fix the issue and upon testing it I can confirm that the problem happens consistently a few seconds after removing the check mark from its sound setting. I'm using a nexus 4 running Android 4.4.2, and using your beta app if that might make any difference.

And really, and with all due respect, have to ask, why even add sounds in the first place? I'm sure some people might love the novelty the first few times, but then it will quickly fade out to a gimmick, at which point it's just as likely to be silenced. Of course if the sounds didn't give issues then you might as well have them for whoever truly wants them, but since I read here about someone else with a problem, I'm failing to see their appeal right now.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
I don't understand that: PA 4.45 faux kernel, cyclops.

:eek:

Sorry!!

All I know that the app is not compatible with Android L.

And I would not recommend to install it on a highly customized system.

I hope that we handle Android L issue as soon as possible.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Dear Seth, that was the very important report.

I didn't know about the issue.

The sound off options was added at the last moment.

We didn't have enough time to test it.

I hope I will fix it in the next build.

Thank you!
[Android Apps and Games] nek46:
thanks man
[Android Apps and Games] roydest:
Great App!

I've been waiting so long for the Android version... (I already use it on pc and if I remember correctly, the app was already announced a few years ago).

-the widgets are well made (especially the 4x2 widget). Is it possible to add a customizable widget?

... and will we see Billy and Marfa? ;)

-the sound bug is already known as I could read... (already posted)

keep it up!
[Android Apps and Games] egzthunder1:
Not a problem :) glad it helped.

You want me to put the hammer down?
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
I'm not quite sure what it means.

But if it means more buzz - yes, that would be great!
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Huh! I'm happy to see the true YoWindow fan :)

Yes, we promised Android 2 years ago.

The app was almost ready - it was made with Adobe AIR (read "Flash") and compiled to iOS and Android.

But then it turned out we cannot make a live wallpaper with AIR.

So it was decided to rewrite the whole app from the ground up in Java.

More widgets including Inspector with detailed weather are coming soon.

Millie, Billy and Marfa are there and all of them can fly :)

Tomorrow I'm going to take care of the sound problems.

Thank you, it's a pleasure to read that the app is loved through the years.
[Android Apps and Games] egzthunder1:
That is my mobile signature... It is a line taken from The Avengers (specifically from Thor :))

You want me to put the hammer down?
[Android Apps and Games] :
Hi, me again,

I'm glad to see a dev who really takes time to answer each user, so thanks for that. :D

I can confirm the sound issue. It happens for me as well.

I also had another issue though, which is this:

As you can see, the sky is really dark at night time! You can still see the lights coming from the house, but nothing else.
[Android Apps and Games] Zehlek:
Is it possible to make sounds appear in the home screen with the live wallpaper? I remember the sounds when I had my HTC Sensation and HTC's lwp
[Android Apps and Games] roydest:
Thank you for your detailed explanation about the problems during the development of this app! very interesting!

I love YoWindow, because it was always a bit different than the others and the weather forecast is detailed and very accurate!

I am looking forward to see the new features...and Billy, Marfa and Millie, the white beauty i had actually forgotten in my first post- sorry for that Millie! :o

Thanks for bringing YoWindow to the community!
[Android Apps and Games] FilipSehovic:
How to change refresh rate?
[Android Apps and Games] Jexx11:
this looks very good so far, I just stumbled across it and haven't had a chance to test it much, but does this weather app contain a radar? That is the one necessity I must have in a weather app.
[Android Apps and Games] lesscro:
Awesome fresh job on weather !

Advertising from XDA home page then like all time, i come on thread to see what we talking about...

A really Good surprise...

For me it need some improvement in design...

1- Like 4x2 widget, its' cool but a lot of information, by the way ability to select what we want see and overcast for days we want

2 - Ability to change background in app, in france i see a land, i want Eiffel Tower or something like that (like a tourist) or create myself using recommanded tuto my background (the best)

3 - how info is displayed on screen... i think glass effect is tyle cool but maybe manage a bit complete area...

If you want help, a lot of idea and i have photoshop, if you want a sketch, tell me, i can help you, it's been a long time a weather app has been so excited !

And maybe make you app icon more somehing but more...

And weather is clearly very accurate here !

Cheers !
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
:o Silly me!
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Fixed!
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Hm... It's a controversial topic. Since it's night time it should be dark outside.

Probably the darkness needs to be better balanced.

We will discuss this topic with the team.

Thanks for paying attention to the details!
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
We can make this option available, no problem, but I'm not quite sure people will be using it.

I wonder what do you guys here at XDA forum think about it?
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
We have not made this option public because we afraid of overloading our servers with too many requests.

When the release rush is over we will consider opening this feature to the users.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Not yet. But this is one of the features on the list of our priorities.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
1. Yes, more customization will be available later.

2. That's the next big thing for YoWindow.

3. We will think about it.

We are making all the graphics in house, but thank you for offering your help! :)
[Android Apps and Games] chrischa:
Geo Location

is it possible to use geo location (dirty) to determine position :)

app is really nice
[Android Apps and Games] lesscro:
1 - Yep it will be cool !

2 - damn, it's OK i like this app now !

3 - No problem mister !

Anyway because i already open photosop before your answer...

My vision @ this stage of app :

Basic info in standard mode with City, country and Hour with temp and weather condition.

Extended version include same info but new area include timeline weather, Temp is most important then big font with background forecast icon with transparency.

Cheers.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Thanks! :)

On the first launch YoWindow is trying to detect your location using GPS and mobile networks.

Realtime location detection is not available yet. This is one of the next new features.

Stay tuned!
[Android Apps and Games] el_easy:
YoWindow Weather supports custom Icon Set?

The reasons I ask is because I'm looking for Icon Set it looks kind of real not like cartoon... Thanks
[Android Apps and Games] lesscro:
Another pimper app user... you can easily change icon on app using zipattack on apk...
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
What a cool live wallpaper.

I always wanted a lightweight live wallpaper that shows the current weather.

How often does it get updated?

Also, some small tips:

the targetSdkVersion on the manifest file is very low. You should always set it to the highest one available (19 for kitkat). I know it since the app requires the device to have a menu button to go to the options screen.

Read more about it here.

the UI of the app seems very IOS like. Google said that such apps have much less chance of ever being featured. You should avoid it:

http://developer.android.com/design/patterns/pure-android.html

moving between the pages seems to work the opposite way than the native one. When I swipe from left to right, I expect it to go to the page on the right, but it's the opposite...

you don't really need to get the precise location of the user (weather that is 200 meters away is usually the same as the one here) , so why ask for it in the permissions?

why does it need access to the SD card?

Maybe you should put some information about the permissions being used.

seems like the settings of which background to use isn't really synced between the live-wallpaper and the main screen. However, when you select one on the main screen, it will change on the live-wallpaper itself.
[Android Apps and Games] Zehlek:
Maybe if some don't like it, you can make an option in the lwp settings to have sounds
[Android Apps and Games] tgrgrd00:
Just wanted to stop and say nice app. I usually don't run live wallpapers but I am going to run this one on my Nexus 10 for a while. It looks great on the larger screen too. Thanks for the xda version.
[Android Apps and Games] davidstre:
I am possibly the world's most intense weather app snob and I love this app.

The provider is the NWS so you can't complain about that. The ability to choose from other weather providers such as Weatherbug or the weather channel would be nice, but if I have to be stuck with just one choice, NWS is the choice I'd like to be stuck with. Obviously the app is beautiful, the sound effects are a nice touch too.

THE WIDGET!

Great interactive widget but I have two big gripes with it...

1. There is way too much padding around the widget. This makes the widget take up alot of extra space not needed for the actual information.

2. The widget does not re-size (4x2). I would like to have the widget adapt to size changes, like if I use apex to shrink it to 4x1 it would be nice if it reformatted itself instead of simply cutting off info.

The only other problem I have is with the weather notification in the statusbar. I would love if you ditched the blue square and simply made the numbers larger with no background (similar to how weatherbug does it)

Otherwise this app is amazing and the face that its a first release is beyond impressive. Thanks for the amazing work!
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Thanks for your efforts.

I hope the new YoWindow look will improve significantly.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
The current weather is updated once in 20-40 minutes depending on location.

1. The highest SDK version of YoWindos is set to 22.

<uses-sdk
android:minSdkVersion="9"
android:targetSdkVersion="22" />

2. Thanks for the tip, we are going to review the UI.

Can you give some examples of what iOS like UI elements you have noticed?

3. Do you mean screen swiping to move forward in time?

4. Thanks, probably too precise, we will think about it. However, if you are in mountains, the weather may significantly change within 2 - 5 miles range.

5. Some people don't have much space in the main memory to keep 35 MB of YoWindow. So they used to move it to an external storage.

6. Yeah, I know, there is a minor glitch there, we will fix it soon.

I didn't expect to receive such a deep review.

Thanks!
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
We are trying to avoid too many options.

Anyway we will think about adding this option.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Thank you! :)

I'm quite concerned about the battery consumption in LWP.

We certainly will be optimizing the rendering code.

But I just want you to know that there is an option to turn the animations off.

That will make the power consumption close to zero.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
Thank you!

Most commercial companies want money.

Weather Channel (Weather Underground) and Weather Bug are not exceptions.

The API usage price is way over our level of income.

I wish we could afford their PWS network data.

I would also add that for the rest of the world YoWindow uses met.no and openweathermap.org services.

Both provide high quality weather forecast.

Both items are on our list.

I want both of them to be fixed as well :)

We have had a little argument regarding this decision inside our studio.

I'm on your side.

I hope we will change it or provide an option soon.

Again, thank you for the wonderful review.
[Android Apps and Games] AndroidDeveloperLB:
1. there is no API that is 22 yet, so it won't work. I suggest using kitkat (19) for now.

Here's the list of available API levels:

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/manifest/uses-sdk-element.html#ApiLevels

2. check out other apps (especially from Google) and the website I've given you. Also search on Google for how Android native apps should look like.

Here's a nice website for the designers of android apps:

https://developer.android.com/design/index.html

check out the instructions there and look at the screenshots.

One thing that I can see on your app that looks like IOS instead of Android is the upper bar (called ActionBar on Android). the title is centered instead of being on the left.

Also, for the locations screen (and landscape screen), there is no action bar, and instead there is just a title and a large button.

If you wish to use the native ActionBar, you can use the support library given by Google, or "ActionBarSherlock" (which is deprecated, but still works fine).

You can also try out my app, which I worked hard on making it have the native look&feel of Android:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lb.app_manager

3. yes.

One app that you can see how it works is the Play store itself.

4. I find it very hard to believe that 2-5 miles isn't the range of the non-precise location...

Anyway, when you get the location, you also get how precise the location is, so you could decide if you want to get a more precise location or use what you got.

This way you will save on battery. Here's a link about location getting :

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/location/strategies.html

Even a better tip: You can also use the Play-Store-Services SDK :

http://developer.android.com/google/play-services/location.html

They say they made really good tweaks so that it will give you the location faster and save on battery.

5. It has nothing to do with a permission to write to the sd card :

http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/data/install-location.html

Even if the app is installed on the sd card, it still has its own private path (which isn't the sd card) that it can read and write from.

Also, since you have a live wallpaper and a widget, it might be problematic anyway (link) :

"Applications That Should NOT Install on External Storage

...

Live Wallpapers...

App Widgets...

"

I've never tested it, so I suggest you test it to see that it works fine.

You could warn the user about this issue of course.

6. ok.
[Android Apps and Games] par128:
1. Have no idea where I took 22, just have changed to 19.

Thanks!

2. Bookmarked, will check out the design guidelines later.

I should admit my knowledge of the platform is poor, though I have programmed 75% of the app.

The details really helped.

We will be discussing both issues with our designer.

Thanks for the ActionBar tips.

The main screen UI is made with Open GL, so it's a tricky to use native UI over it.

3. Technically screen swiping is not page switching.

You are controlling the time, not pages.

Yes, the first time people try YoWindow they want to use the same gesture as the page swipe.

And we would make it this way unless a problem.

Here's the problem.

There is a time bar on the screen.

You can move your finger over it to travel in time as well.

When you swipe forward you would expect the time go forward.

We made the screen swipe in the same direction (opposite to page swipe) to avoid confusion.

I wonder what would you suggest?

4. Thanks so much!

I will be using your guidelines this week while working on auto location tracking.

5. You are absolutely right.

I think this permission was added for some debugging task long time ago.

Looks like it is useless for the final product.

Thank you for that as well!

Yes, I know that the widgets and wallpaper will stop to work as soon as the app moved to SD card.

But for many users this is the only way they can enjoy the app.

I don't want to limit them.

Yes, we need to add a warning.

Again, thank you for the valuable comments!