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by GJ (January 22, 2011)
Nice work! Maybe five to seven day forecast?

The problem is caused by the issue in the Google API. It returns the current 
time in GMT. And four forecasts: for today, tomorrow, etc...

"Today" is for GMT, but for the localtime it can be yesterday. In this case the 
forecasts (according to the localtime) are for yesterday, today, tomorrow, 
etc...

See attached XMLs for example.

The problem is that Weather Notification doesn't provides the date for 
forecasts, it supposes that the first forecast is today, the next is tomorrow, 
etc. according to the localtime.

Need to: remove wrong forecast or display the correct date (add the date to 
forecasts).

by Christian (January 22, 2011)
Great. Please add the name of the city to the statusbar

by JM ツ (January 22, 2011)
... Also: celcius = km/h (forget mph). Thanks!

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Auto detect seems to have stopped working on my Droid2.Just searches and 
never finds where I am.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Love the program and 
would like to have a fix on this problem.  Manually it picks up location in 
about a second.


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Using Droid2 phone from Verizon with Andrid 2.2.

Please provide any additional information below. The only thing I would like 
added to this program would be a manual update button.  Great app.  Just what I 
want. Nice and simple.

= Problem =

The temperature text is long. Especially in Fahrenheit. For example: "+123°" 
(it's hot, but it's possible).
Before Android 2.3 the notification icon is limited to 25px width. The text 
size is small when scaling to 25px width.
Starting with Android 2.3 the notification icon can be variable width: 
http://developer.android.com/guide/practices/ui_guidelines/icon_design_status_ba
r.html (verification required). There is no problem here.

= Solutions =

== 25px icons ==

Draw icons for each temperature value. Icon size is 25x25.
All icons has the same font size.

=== Advantages ===

 * Universal solution.

=== Disadvantages ===

 * The resulting font size is small.
 * Large .apk file (about 400 icons, in two skins).
 * For Android 2.3 is better solution.

== Variable width icons ==

Draw icons 25px height, but with variable witdh.

=== Advantages ===

 * The resulting font size is good.

=== Disadvantages ===

 * Correctly works with Android >2.3. Previous Android versions downscale the image to 25px width.
 * Large .apk file (about 400 icons, in two skins).

== Multiple icons ==

Display multiple notifications: each icon represents one digit in the 
temperature value.

=== Advantages ===

 * The resulting font size is the best (laaarge).
 * Small .apk size (only about 20 icons, can prepare icons for multiple resolutions).
 * Possible to display full forecasts in multiple notifications.

=== Disadvantages ===

 * Need to be carefully checked, multiple notifications can interfere with others.
 * Hack is required to hide notification text.
 * Mess in status bar during update (What to show in ticker text?)

= Other =

How to make multiple builds: for Android 2.3 and previous Android versions?

TODO: attach screenshots.

by chin yong (February 7, 2011)
More colour choices to change the text colour would make this even.better

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Location auto-detection should be enabled
2. Sometimes (for some GPS base stations?) the weather is unknown

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The weather can be less precise, but must be displayed.

by notexactly (March 21, 2011)
Very good overall. One annoyance: the icon for weather unknown is a sun and 
clouds, which means sun and clouds, not weather unknown. It needs a ?.

from    Edward S.
date    Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:43
subject Weather notification

how about temperature with windshield or humidex?



Do you mean to add the icons with humidity and wind information to notification 
bar? It's a good idea!

Reproduced on HTC Hero.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open Notifications
2. Select notifications using trackball.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Usually, notification text is inversed when you select it. But the text of the 
weather notification doesn't changed.

Please use labels and text to provide additional information.
The text color doesn't change when you select the notification by touching it. 
I.e. the bug exists only for phones with trackball (and, maybe only for Sense).

from    Edward S.
date    Sat, Jan 22, 2011 at 06:43
subject Weather notification

Is it possible to include an option tochange the text colour of the 
notification to white?

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to instantiate activity 
ComponentInfo{ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.skin.whitetext/ru.gelin.andr
oid.weather.notification.skin.whitetext.WeatherInfoActivity}: 
java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.skin.whitetext.WeatherInfoActivity in 
loader 
dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[/mnt/asec/ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.sk
in.whitetext-2/pkg.apk]
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1573)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1667)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$1500(ActivityThread.java:117)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:935)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3687)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
at 
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:842)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:600)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: 
ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.skin.whitetext.WeatherInfoActivity in 
loader 
dalvik.system.PathClassLoader[/mnt/asec/ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.sk
in.whitetext-2/pkg.apk]
at dalvik.system.PathClassLoader.findClass(PathClassLoader.java:240)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:551)
at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:511)
at android.app.Instrumentation.newActivity(Instrumentation.java:1021)
at android.app.ActivityThread.performLaunchActivity(ActivityThread.java:1565)
... 11 more

from    [email protected]
date    Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 07:20
subject Weather notification

Love your app. I left a nice comment and voted 5 stars. Its amazing how 
lightweight it is compared to all the other apps like its kind and manages to 
update fast and finds location faster and it is consistent with the updates! 
Wow! I've tried literally all the weather apps with status bar function and 
they all suck because they stop updating after a while or they are too heavy 
and take to much memory by adding unneeded junk. This is so simple. Has today's 
weather high and low. Current conditions and upcoming days high and low in 
simple text form. No unwanted icons and heavy graphics. Its great man. Great 
work. Keep it up please while maintaining the consistency and lightness. Also 
in your next update is it possible that u can include the next 3 days forecast 
info in the notification area that's blank? On the other side of where you have 
the weather and high and low of that day? No ones done it yet and I think that 
would be a great idea! What do you think. People can look at there notification 
bar and see the temp, high and low of the day, and current condition on the 
left and then bam they can see the next 3 days forecast on the right. All in 
one notification!

Deleon


from    RAYMOND DELEON
date    Sun, Apr 10, 2011 at 07:55
subject Weather notification

Ok I figured it out. In the notification area you can leave the weather temp 
where it is far left, then leave high and low where it is as well then you can 
move the current conditions description underneath the high and low of the day 
where that blank space is just with smaller font and unbold letters. Then you 
will have plenty room for next 3 days forecast and what ever else given you put 
smaller font. What u think?

Deleon

by Stelian (June 17, 2011)
Every time phone starts I must select installed skin, it was better before 
update

by Skeptick (June 17, 2011)
Если кильнуть прогу, то слетают настройки 
шкурки. Приходится добавлять в игнор таск 
киллера. А если убивается системой - то надо 
менять настройки.

by Dynamo (June 16, 2011)
Always inaccurate. And now these stupid skins. Resets to default settings on 
reboot. Only displays picture in notification bar. Epic 4g. Uninstall.

by Евгений (June 16, 2011)
У меня после обновления при перезагрузке 
не сохраняет настройки, все слетает. Samsung 
galaxi s 2

Extract wind speed and humidity values from the strings, provided by Google.
It's required to:
- display the values in the correct unit (issue 14)
- calculate wind chill and humidex (issue 16)

Run all skins (made by me, of course) to run on the same process as the main 
application.

Using this app before around 18th March worked fine (Samsung Galaxy S). Now 
just gives "Unknown weather conditions" (even after reboot). Using GoLauncher.

Create a bulk app with two builtin skins.

by Christian (January 30, 2011)
Please add more weather provider like accuweather. Google shows inaccurate 
weather info.

from    Jennifer Barber
date    Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 20:34
subject Weather notification

Great app. Working well. I do not care for the plus sign in front of the 
temperature in the notification bar. I would only like to see a negative if the 
temperature is negative. Can u make this an option in your next update?

Thank u!

by Adrian (February 7, 2011)
Nice idea, but does not refresh automatically even when set to do so... Motor 
Milestone

Allow to install the app to SD card.
The application is large enough (because of much notification icons). It can be 
better to allow to install it to SD card.
If the issue #8 will be implemented, the icon sets must be installed to SD card.

Problems (see 
http://developer.android.com/guide/appendix/install-location.html#ShouldNot):
- it's a service
- it uses alarm manager
- it listens "boot completed"

by Anatoliy (February 20, 2011)
Так себе! Мелкий шрифт, Надо сделать так, 
чтобы каждую минуту бегущая строка 
показывала и температуру, и город. А так... 
по детски всё. Жду обновы.

cross1983, 
http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=214686&view=findpost&p=6604018

Здравствуйте! Как-нибудь с автором можно 
связаться?. Хотелось бы попросить 
настраиваемый цвет в самой программе.
У меня на панели уведомлений и в верхнем 
баре все нормально, так как цвет шрифта там 
настраивается. А вот то, что касается цвета 
шрифта в самой программе, то вот:

Так как сам прогноз пишется светлым цветом, 
то на светлом фоне не все видно.
Если выделить невидимую область, то все 
читается

by Greg (February 1, 2011)
Been using this for a couple weeks now and love it. Could use an option for 
update time to be in am & pm and have it listed on notification pulldown.

by notexactly (March 3, 2011)
Would be better with an ongoing notification, like WeatherBug's, so it wouldn't 
get pushed down by other notifications.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Enable auto-updated.
2. System locale should be Russian

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Weather should always be in Russian. But sometimes question marks (in diamonds) 
are displayed instead of the text.

When the application is initially installed, the click on the notification 
doesn't work. The exception about not enough permissions to start the weather 
info activity appears in logs. But all is ok after the device reboot.

Got on 1.5 and 2.1.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1.Attach Motorola Atrix to Laptop Dock
2.
3.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Notification icon should display temperature or unknown location icon.
Instead, the icon is just an empty gray rectangle.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
Default OS

Please provide any additional information below.

Please add new variant of temperature units: C(F)
It will be very helpful for remember temperature in Fahrenheit.

When the weather updates are not available for more than one day, display the 
next day forecast as today's weather. 
The same when the updates are not available one more day...

v0.1.2-beta1
Apr 3, 2011 2:12:21 AM

rebooted phone, then tried starting app manually because it did not seem to 
start automatically. App started quickly and had location and temp already. It 
was waiting on data and crashed.

android.app.RemoteServiceException: Bad notification posted from package 
ru.gelin.android.weather.notification: Coulding create icon: 
StatusBarIcon(pkg=ru.gelin.android.weather.notification id=0x7f0200c2 level=164 
visible=true num=0 )
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:1052)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:3839)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:507)
at 
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:841)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:599)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)

Add weather icons to the info screen.

On click to notification display not the main activity, but the dialog with 
weather details.

Each skin/notification icon set can fully customize this dialog.

Jan 21, 2011 5:18:23 PM 0.1-beta1 Doesn't open.

java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start service 
ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.UpdateService@481cb668 with Intent { 
cmp=ru.gelin.android.weather.notification/.UpdateService (has extras) }: 
java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Invalid index 0, size is 0
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:3063)
at android.app.ActivityThread.access$3600(ActivityThread.java:125)
at android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2096)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:99)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
at 
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:871)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:629)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)
Caused by: java.lang.IndexOutOfBoundsException: Invalid index 0, size is 0
at java.util.ArrayList.throwIndexOutOfBoundsException(ArrayList.java:257)
at java.util.ArrayList.get(ArrayList.java:311)
at 
ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.WeatherNotification.<init>(WeatherNotifica
tion.java:76)
at 
ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.WeatherNotification.update(WeatherNotifica
tion.java:45)
at 
ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.UpdateService.skipUpdate(UpdateService.jav
a:166)
at 
ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.UpdateService.onStart(UpdateService.java:1
43)
at android.app.Service.onStartCommand(Service.java:420)
at android.app.ActivityThread.handleServiceArgs(ActivityThread.java:3053)
... 10 more

by Greg (January 27, 2011)
Nice app. No need for + symbol and would be nice to have 15 and 30 min update 
options.

...and add FAQ page.

Currently if the weather is unknown for some reason, the next update is 
scheduled to the next update period.
Should schedule update to the closer time.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Open notification, open Weather Info activity
2. Click Preferences, open Preferences activity
3. Open notification again, click it.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The Weather Info activity should be displayed on the top of the Preferences 
activity, but it doesn't appear.

[24.04.2011 22:17:03] <selectee> Привет
[24.04.2011 22:17:34] <selectee> Диалог погоды от гугл 
закрывается со второго раза
[25.04.2011 11:37:44] <gelin> А подробнее можно? Какова 
последовательность шагов?
[25.04.2011 11:47:15] <selectee> привет
[25.04.2011 11:47:55] <selectee> там походу 2 диалога 
сразу появляется
[25.04.2011 11:48:23] <selectee> шаги просты, открываю 
Нотификатион
[25.04.2011 11:48:40] <selectee> жамкаю на на неё
[25.04.2011 11:48:55] <selectee> появляется диалог с 
погодой
[25.04.2011 11:49:45] <selectee> потом жамкаю на 
крестит(при этом виден эффект закрывания) 
диалог не месте
[25.04.2011 11:49:56] <selectee> после второго раза 
исчезает
[25.04.2011 11:52:23] <selectee> почему 2 диалога: как то 
раз нажал обновить погоду в диалоге, диалог 
уменьшился(инфы было меньше) и за ним 
виднелся ещё один 
[25.04.2011 12:16:12] <gelin> Хохо

by Андрей (January 22, 2011)
Уважаемые разработчики!Если не 
трудно,сделайте, чтоб температура в строке 
была немного больше.Плохо видно.А в целом 5+

by Greg (February 1, 2011)
Been using this for a couple weeks now and love it. Could use an option for 
update time to be in am & pm and have it listed on notification pulldown.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Install the app: the Auto Location is checked, the Manual Location is not 
set.
2. Uncheck Auto Location.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
The error about not a possibility to get the weather for "" location appears. 
This error should be avoid.

Enable debug mode to handle the XMLs received from the Google.
Can be very helpful to find the cause of the "Weather unknown"-like errors.

There are multiple icon sets:
- black icons
- white icons
There will be more icon sets:
- for wind
- for humidity

The current application size is large. It will be more large when adding more 
icon sets.

Solution:
Distribute icon sets (skins?) as a separate applications in Market. Allow to 
install only required (preferred) by the user.

from    Edward S.
date    Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 21:24
subject Re: Weather notification

...
here in Canada, where there are high winds in the winter, the current 
temperature is often reported as two numbers: the temperature in shade, and the 
temperature "with Windsheild" - meaning the temperature taking into account the 
wind conditions. ie -20°C feels like -29°C.
Likewise, in the summer we get the shade temperature and also temperature with 
Humidex (including the humidity factor, as high humidity makes it feel hotter).

by Protonic (March 8, 2011)
Мааасинькие замыленные цифры в трее, они 
рисованные чтоль, не системные?...ждем 
дальнейшего развития

Need to provide images for different screen resolutions.

http://juick.com/ddos/1318526

ddos:
У меня погода обновляется только при 
наличии wi-fi. Как профиксить то? Прошу 
донести сей пост до глаз автора программы.

gelin:
Какой телефон? Прога смотрит на наличие 
сетевых подключений, может, в данном 
телефоне что не нат...

ddos:
lg gt 540. С сетью все нормально.

android.content.ActivityNotFoundException: Unable to find explicit activity 
class 
{ru.gelin.android.weather.notification/ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.Mai
nActivity}; have you declared this activity in your AndroidManifest.xml?
at 
android.app.Instrumentation.checkStartActivityResult(Instrumentation.java:1404)
at android.app.Instrumentation.execStartActivity(Instrumentation.java:1378)
at android.app.Activity.startActivityForResult(Activity.java:2817)
at android.app.Activity.startActivity(Activity.java:2923)
at 
ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.MainActivity.start(MainActivity.java:131)
at 
ru.gelin.android.weather.notification.skin.impl.BaseWeatherInfoActivity$2.onClic
k(BaseWeatherInfoActivity.java:69)
at android.view.View.performClick(View.java:2405)
at android.view.View$PerformClick.run(View.java:8813)
at android.os.Handler.handleCallback(Handler.java:587)
at android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:92)
at android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:123)
at android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:4627)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invokeNative(Native Method)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:521)
at 
com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(ZygoteInit.java:868)
at com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:626)
at dalvik.system.NativeStart.main(Native Method)