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Breezy Weather: An open-source, privacy-friendly Android weather app forked from the now-unmaintained Geometric Weather (f-droid.org)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Breezy Weather is a free and open-source Android weather app, forked from Geometric Weather, adding new features, sources, modernizing code, fixing bugs, updating dependencies for security reasons, etc., while keep having a smooth user and developer experience in mind.

Features

Weather data
- Daily and hourly forecasts up to 16 days
  - Temperature
  - Air quality
  - Wind
  - UV index
  - Precipitation
  - Feels like temperature
- Hourly forecasts
  - Humidity / Dew point
  - Pressure
  - Cloud cover
  - Visibility
- Precipitation in the next hour
- Air quality
- Pollen & Mold
- Ephemeris (Sun & Moon)
- Severe weather and precipitation alerts
- Real-time weather conditions
  - Temperature
  - Feels like
  - Wind
  - UV index
  - Humidity
  - Dew point
  - Atmospheric pressure
  - Visibility
  - Cloud cover
  - Ceiling
Multiple weather sources
Large selection of home screen widgets for at-a-glance information
Live wallpaper
Custom icon packs
- Geometric Weather icon packs
- Chronus Weather icon packs
Automatic dark mode
Looking for radar? Check out this document
Free and Open Source
- No proprietary blobs/dependencies (versions 5.0.0-alpha and later)
- Releases generated by GitHub actions, guaranteeing it matches the source code
- Fully works with Open-Meteo (FOSS source)
Privacy-friendly
- No personal data collected by the app (link to app privacy policy)
- Multiple sources are available, with links to their privacy policies for transparency
- Current location is optional and not added by default
- If using current location, an IP location service can be used instead of GPS to send less accurate coordinates to weather source
- No trackers/automatic crash reporters

Note: If the link isn’t working for you or if you can’t find the app, update the default F-Droid repository in your F-Droid client.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago (5 children)

I'm trying it. This was the kick in the ass I needed to finally go ahead and get F Droid. Anything else I should be getting from there? I've heard of some good apps through it but idk what a sorta "standard" user might be interested in.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (4 children)

Firstly, check if certain apps you use from Google Play are on there too. Some, like Bitwarden, Wikipedia, or Jellyfin, are on fdroid too without Google's bullshit. Some even have functionality on fdroid that they're not allowed to have on the Play store.

After that, the Fossify suite of simple apps are very basic, no bullshit, non-Google system apps. Gallery in particular is popular.

If you like Sid Meiers Civilization, search for Unciv.

NewPipe for ad-free YouTube.

TrackerControl will let you block ads system wide. It's kinda touchy and takes some finagling, though.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago

Seconding Fossify Gallery, IIRC it's a fork of the superb Simple Gallery, prior to it being sold to some dodgy data gathering company. It's great.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago

Some are, like Bitwarden or Wikipedia or Jellyfin, are on fdroid too without Google's bullshit. Some even have functionality they're not allowed to have in the Play store.

To be fair, there are also some features that also rely on Google's builds. For example, Bitwarden's "Log in with Device" only works on the Google Play version.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not seeing bitwarden on fdroid

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

It's not in the official F-droid repo

https://mobileapp.bitwarden.com/fdroid/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

TrackerControl will let you block ads system wide. It's kinda touchy and takes some finagling, though.

What sort of finagling are we talking? Also, I've been using AdAway for the past few weeks with mixed results. Could these tools be used in tandem or is that just silly?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Since they both need the VPN slot, you can't use both at the same time. Personally, I'm a fan of NextDNS which uses Android's Private DNS feature to block requests to ad- and tracking servers.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

There's tons to choose from, some that are also found in the Play Store (often with Google proprietary libraries or tracking removed). I would recommend:

Aegis authenticator: for 2FA.
Antenna Pod: for all your podcasts needs
Aves Libre: beautiful gallery app which I personally prefer over the Fossify app that others recommended here (try both and decide for yourself).
Binary Eye: QR code scanner.
Gauguin: a Sudoku-like game, very entertaining.
Heliboard: a great keyboard with support for multilingual typing and glide typing. Completely offline and private.
KDE Connect: to wirelessly connect your phone with your computer, transfer files, share the clipboard, control your computer from your phone...
KeePassDX (or Bitwarden): password manager. I personally prefer KeePassDX and dealing myself with syncing the database (via synching or KDE Connect), but some people prefer Bitwarden which offers online syncing.
KISS (or Kvaesitso): simple search-based launchers. Kvaesitso has more options but also feels a bit heavier.
Metro: music player for local files
Moshidon: Mastodon client.
Mull: web browser based on Firefox with hardened privacy (+uBlock Origin extension)
NewPipe: to watch YouTube videos without ads.
Organic Maps (or OsmAnd~): offline Maps based on OpenStreetMap. Break free from Google.
Syncthing: to synchronise files between devices (Android, computer).
Tasks.org: to-do's.
Transistor: listen to the radio. Many stations built-in, and you can add more if you have the streaming URL.
Voyager: client for Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Tubular is a Newpipe fork with Sponsorblock.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Thanks for the tip! There was also NewPipe with SponsorBlock but I can't find it anymore. Do you know if they're related?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

The dev discontinued Newpipe x sponsorblock and started a new project called Tubular.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I also want to add LibreTube, it's a privacy-focused YouTube client that uses the Piped API. In my opinion, it also looks better than NewPipe/Tubular and it uses Material You.
Fossify apps are great open-source replacements for things like your gallery, contacts, dialer, SMS app, file manager, clock, etc.
Audile is a FOSS alternative for Shazam.
Voice is an awesome audiobook player.
Gramophone is a beautiful, minimal music player.
InnerTube is a FOSS YouTube music client that uses Material You.
URLChecker allows you to analyze URLs before opening them. It can also scan for malware and remove tracking parameters.
Seal let's you download videos from various sources.

F-Droid also has amazing Emulators like Dolphin, RetroArch and Lemuroid.

The IzzyOnDroid repository also has amazing apps, for example:

Thunder is another great Lemmy client.
YTDLnis is another YouTube video downloader.
Kaiteki is a client for Fediverse platforms like Mastodon, Firefish, Misskey, Akkoma and others.
FlorisBoard, another great keyboard with many features and customization options. You can use Floristyle to add a Material You theme and make it look like Gboard.
LinkSheet to restore the pre-Android 12 app chooser for opening links.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Maybe I'm stupid, but I can't get glide typing to work. I don't see it in the settings for heliboard.

Also, is there any reason to switch to newpipe if ReVanced is serving me well?

Edit: Nevermind, I got glide typing to work! That took some digging. If anybody else has trouble, download this and go to heliboard settings, advanced, and go to the bottom where you can load in a gesture library, which is what I linked to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Also, is there any reason to switch to newpipe if ReVanced is serving me well?

I guess for most people not, but there can be some:

privacy: NewPipe doesn't require you to log on to a Google account (but it so connects to Google servers if you watch YouTube videos). You can, however still follow channels (only locally, obviously)
ability to download videos or just audio. An extra is that on ReVanced you can have the download function through a 3rd party app, you can choose from several and NewPipe is one of them.
NewPipe can also play content from other sources, like Bandcamp or SoundCloud.

A reason to not switch would be... the interface is not very ptetty

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

ReVanced lets Google collect a lot of data about you, since it's based on the proprietary YouTube app. NewPipe and Tubular on the other hand are complete FOSS reimplementations that use an unofficial API to fetch content from YouTube. They are way better for privacy, as they don't collect any additional information. LibreTube is even better, because it doesn't connect to Google at all, it uses a proxy called Piped.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Heliboard (keyboard) just released on F-Droid. (Its the continuation of Openboard which is no longer maintained.)

Netgaurd - blocks apps from acessing WiFi or cell. Great for crippling spyware and getting misc apps with background updates to be WiFi only.

I use K-9 Mail for email. Eventually its going to be taken over by Thunderbird to become their long over due mobile client.

I've been checking F-droid first for miscilanous utilities I need, such as a .txt editor or PDF viewer.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Get droidify, I made the switch about 2years ago.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

I'd recommend just taking an hour or so to scroll through all of the recently updated apps, I found a ton of super cool small "utility apps" that way.