Clear skies for Pixel-owning weather app loves
  • sadreality
    4•2 years ago

    yes, give this app access to your GPS and let it ping it to google every minute

    • MostlyMid
      9•2 years ago

      If you have a Pixel phone, I think your weather app tracking you is the least of your worries at this point

      • GunnarRunnar
        2•2 years ago

        Choose the location manually? Control the interval of the “ping”?

        • @lka1988@lemmy.world
          0•2 years ago

          Yeah, but the general smartphone user is gonna want the weather where they are right now. And that means the phone needs location data and pings a server somewhere often enough to get “real-time” weather updates.

          I’m a tinkerer at heart but when I put a weather widget on my home screen, I want it updated automatically. I don’t want to have to manually refresh it every time I want up to date weather at that moment, especially on my watch.

          • @erwan@lemmy.ml
            1•2 years ago

            As soon as you can choose, fine.

            If you can add “current location” which is dynamic, or specific cities, it’s fine for me.

  • NimNimEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Now, those of us who don’t have a Fold or the tablet have to wait and see when Google plans to bring it to other Pixel devices in the future. Also, I hope that frog is still there!

  • authEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    My real default weather app is a self hosted web app that scrapes government websites

  • falinterEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    I hope it comes to the pixel phones soon. Though I enjoy wunderground it would be nice if that weather widget was more helpful.

    • BettyWhiteInHD
      1•2 years ago

      I just want my weather widget to not disappear randomly from the always on display and the home screen when I actually need to check the weather.

      That’s all I’m asking. How is this still a bug years later?

  • @Kecessa@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    Ok, but can we please have the ability to remove the current widget since it’s pretty much useless? Same for the search bar that I only use when I tap it by mistake?