Version 2 of Android app

[John Smith]

After 6 months and more than 100 beta versions, v2 is now available in the Play Store.

Many thanks to Liz, Greg and Colin for their in-depth beta testing, and thanks to bundybear626 for the PR adding support for hourly updates for some forecasts.

New features include:

• Updated to target SDK 37/Android 17, increased minimum SDK to 24/Android 7
• Made the interface less sensitive with swipes between screens
• Improved zoom slider functionality on stats screen
• Parallel downloads to speed up downloading when saving settings
• Multiple download attempts on transitive errors
• More translations
• Better error messages
• Better logging, including an option to save the debug logging
• Greatly improved dark mode
• App now uses JSON formatted data, replacing the CSV format (see below)
• Added a hamburger menu for those using gesture navigation
• Added checks to see if there is solar or UV data and only display a row if there is
• Added ET and other information that wasn't shown in the app before
• Added support for tablets in landscape
• Converted the app icon and as many weather images from poor quality PNGs to SVG vector graphics
• Added an optional exact alarm option -- this comes with a battery penalty for those that enable it
• Added temperature and rainfall/rainrate notifications
• Added a option for more frequent webcam refreshing than the archive period
• The app will report if there were any problems generating reports on weeWX
• Both wind speed and vector direction and wind gust gust direction are now displayed on the stats screen
• Added NextDNS.io and Google's public resolver as fallback for when Cloudflare isn't reachable

Click here for the complete change log

NOTE: Because there was major changes to the Inigo plugin for weeWX, which feeds data to the app, it needs updating. Background on the new data format and why it was switched to.