[CheetahAce]

QuickWeather has been updated to version 1.2

* Available for OS 5 and OS 6 devices.

QuickWeather will display your current weather conditions anywhere on your homescreen.



New Features:
* Location Aware setting
[Cell Tower Location or GPS Location]
Enable this feature to have QW automatically determine your current location. GSM Devices will use cell tower location if available. If GSM cell tower information is not available or you have a non GSM device (ex: CDMA) QW will use GPS location if GPS service on your device is enabled.

* Temperature 'Feels Like' display
(heat index / wind chill factor value)

* New Location ID method
You can now enter your City Name, or Zip Code, province, municipality etc to set your location.
No more going to the Yahoo Weather page!!
Example: 'Tokyo' or 'New York, NY' or 'London, England or '92129' etc;

* Some minor bug fixes

Old Features:
* Displays current temperature and hi/lo forecast
* Choose update frequency
* Change background color
* Change text color
* Set transparency level
* Set on-screen location
* Display weather conditions or city name
* Celsius or Fahrenheit
* 2 layout styles
* Also includes 5 day forecast display (not a widget but a popup window) which displays temperature forecast, current temperature, current humidity level, wind speed and sunrise / sunset times

Unlike other weather apps, QuickWeather does not work by changing your wallpaper. QW has a very small footprint, is not active when the backlight is off or your device is in bedtime mode and has no lag or battery drain effects on your device. A Quick and Simple glance at your weather!

If you have any issues with this release I recommend uninstalling the previous release and reentering your Location ID as it uses a different method now which 'might' interfere with last version's data. I say might... Haven't seen an issue yet... just saying...

Price: $1.99

Click HERE to purchase QuickWeather

See nikkisoft.com for more details.

[DD1968]

Cool! Location aware function works great :-)

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

[CheetahAce]

thanks dd1968! yea that's a cool feature.
i'm working on more too...

[ba_hamilton]

Any thoughts on making it so we can add our own custom weather sets?

[bovid]

gr8 app! love it so far.

any chance you can add the feature of auto start on reboot or battery pull?

[CheetahAce]

Any thoughts on making it so we can add our own custom weather sets?

what is a custom weather set?

[CheetahAce]

gr8 app! love it so far.

any chance you can add the feature of auto start on reboot or battery pull?

hmm... i don't know. cant figure that out yet. this app is not like most other apps. it works by some 'magic' so getting it to run on startup is not trivial.

[joesworld]

This update is great, thanks! Running smoothly on my Torch.

For a future update, is it possible to increase the customization of the text? For example, have each field optional and the user can enable/disable at their will (temperature, hi/lo, current condition, feels like, wind speed, ceiling, humidity, sunrise/sunset, barometer, UV Index, UV Description, etc... all those fancy weather items that show in the yahoo forecast)

[BBFTW88]

Don't normally use a weather app, but going to give this a go seeing as it's only a couple of quid

Update : Not even a couple of quid . Seems pretty good, thanks

[joesworld]

Another idea... is it possible for it to auto-update the data in the background? I know one of the selling points is that it goes away and consumes no power when not needed, but if I unlock my phone just to quickly view the temperature, I need to wait 20 seconds for it to update to make sure I'm seeing the most recent data. Even just having this as an option would be great

[CheetahAce]

Another idea... is it possible for it to auto-update the data in the background? I know one of the selling points is that it goes away and consumes no power when not needed, but if I unlock my phone just to quickly view the temperature, I need to wait 20 seconds for it to update to make sure I'm seeing the most recent data. Even just having this as an option would be great

currently if your phone is off or in sleep mode or backlight has been off and you wake your phone up it will take anywhere from 0 to 60 seconds to get the weather. there is a button on top of the options page to update the weather now. i could add a menu item that says update now but that would be the same number of clicks as the options page. also if you open and close the options page it will update immediately.

I can't add any clickable buttons on the weather display at this point due to the way it works.

[CheetahAce]

This update is great, thanks! Running smoothly on my Torch.

For a future update, is it possible to increase the customization of the text? For example, have each field optional and the user can enable/disable at their will (temperature, hi/lo, current condition, feels like, wind speed, ceiling, humidity, sunrise/sunset, barometer, UV Index, UV Description, etc... all those fancy weather items that show in the yahoo forecast)

Yes, i can do this. I'm sure this will all be added as I add more features.
thanks

[CheetahAce]

Another idea... is it possible for it to auto-update the data in the background? I know one of the selling points is that it goes away and consumes no power when not needed, but if I unlock my phone just to quickly view the temperature, I need to wait 20 seconds for it to update to make sure I'm seeing the most recent data. Even just having this as an option would be great

oh... you mean as an option setting to let it update while backlight off / sleep etc? yea i can do that. good idea

[dirtybird072]

what is a custom weather set?

In BeWeather, the user is able to change the icon set you see.. I don't know the exacts of but BA would be the man to talk to on the icon sets. He makes his own.

[Mojave]

You can check out all the BW icon sets right here in this forum.

[BBFTW88]

Very happy with this app. Best weather app I've tried. The fact you don't need a theme with a weather slot makes it even better

Only slight gripe is when going into a different screen from my homescreen, the weather icon will hover there for about half a second before disappearing. Nothing major, and something that could probably easily be fixed in the next update.

Posted from my CrackBerry at wapforums.crackberry.com

[mssca]

Is this app also shows "Feels like" condition? If not I won't buy this because in Canada 4C can feels like -1C with the wind.

[CheetahAce]

yes it does. this is addressed in the 1st post

[rob7100g]

Hi. The Feels like temp is always in Farenheight even when options are set to Celcius.

[joesworld]

Hi. The Feels like temp is always in Farenheight even when options are set to Celcius.

I don't have this problem, both are in celsius for me. The feels like temp is a little dubious sometimes but that's not the apps fault. Maybe try a battery pull?

[bovid]

Hi. The Feels like temp is always in Farenheight even when options are set to Celcius.

using 9700 here with os6 .600 no issues here. feels likes shows in celcius. try battery pull?

[jackyshaikh]

Looking for free trial version,to see how it works and how good it is.

Any links?

[dcwf45]

Several battery pulls and a couple of re-downloads and all I get is an exception error "1.0". It looked promising

[rob7100g]

Updated to v1.2.1 and 'feels like' shows in Celsius. Thanks.

[PossumPete]

Sweeeet app! I gained 1MB by replacing BerryWeather with this. It's perfect for chronic theme changers. Great job, Cheetah!