weather
The Weather midlet is a Java application for mobile devices to check the weather conditions in different locations. Download the new measurement and forecast data any time using the Refresh menu item. There are different views in the Weather midlet and you can change the views with the Up/Down navigation buttons. In the bottom-left corner you'll find the elapsed time from the last data source refresh. It's measured not from the refresh button press on the phone but the refresh of the real computed/measured data on the server. The Autorefresh option makes it possible to refresh the meteorological data automatically in regular intervals. Currently there are three main views:
Overview
You can check the current weather conditions in your locations on the same screen with this view. Basically this is a list with the selected cities and the current conditions of those locations.
Forecast
This is a four days forecast for one location at a time. You can change the location with the Left/Right navigation buttons. For each location you can check the high and low temperature and precipitation levels forecasts for the next four days.
Current conditions
You can see the current detailed weather conditions for each location. Change between locations with the Left/Right navigation buttons. The following data is available on this screen (from top to down):
- Temperature
- RealFeel™ temperature
- Wind direction and speed
- Pressure value and tendency
- UV index
- Relative humidity
- Precipitation levels
- Sunrise and sunset times
You can use this midlet in conjunction with the Sunclock midlet.
If you already use the Sunclock, the Weather will import your city settings from it.
Otherwise you will get the default city set. You can modify the cities with the Cities menu item or you can search locations on the internet using the Search menu. For better city search results sometimes it's needed to add the country code after the city name. For example if you want to locate
Halle, DE
you should use the query string "Halle DE" because there are a lot of American cities with similar name so the search for
"Halle" wouldn't work.
It is possible to change the units between metric and American system. There is an update function where you can check any software updates using the Update menu item. The Help and About functions will display the usual information screens, getting help, checking version and so on.
If you find layout problems you may check the other available variants using the 'Variant' function. This function doesn't change the layout immediately; it just sets your required variant if you will make an 'Update' in the future. If you changed the preferred variant, the system will allow the update even if there isn't a newer version available.
hotkeys
| key | function |
| # | exit |
| 0 | toggle fullscreen |
| 1 | search |
| 2 | fetch |
| 3 | update |
| 4 | cities |
| 5 | autorefresh |
| 6 | change units |
| 7 | variant selection |
| 8 | toggle builtin/custom fonts |
| 9 | about |
Warning! Weather midlet requires a GPRS, EDGE or similar phone based data connection that offers Internet access.
thanks
- Thanks to Michael Sylvie and AccuWeather.com for the detailed and free weather data service
- Thanks to Tamas Majoros for webhosting, svn hosting, geocoding script adopting and general support and testing
- Many thanks to Jyri K for the high quality Shiny weather icons
- Thanks to vgm8383 for the beautiful photo which can be found on flickr and which became the base image of the header above
- Thanks to Magenta Ltd. for the great MgOpen typefaces
- Thanks to the hostip.info team for the IP geolocator service
- Thanks to Jen Vander Heide for correcting the website text
- Thanks to Geo IP Tool for additional IP locator service
- Thanks to NotePage Inc for the rss2html php module
- To Greg Bulmash who made the neat mobile browser detection function
- Thanks to Frederik De Bleser who created the outstanding NodeBox concept which helped me to create some vector graphics
- Geocoding service based on Web Services by Yahoo! and on Google Maps API services
- Thanks to extended geocoding scripts for science
- Thanks to Carl S. Moore for extensive beta testing, detailed bug reports and suggestions
- To Justin Koivisto's cool script supplies the PNG transparency under IE6-
- Thanks to Frédéric Linard for the support
download v1.1.12
Download the application to your computer for local (bluetooth/irda/cable) install:
install
- The easiest method is the OTA, just start your internal phone browser and navigate to the
http://weather.midlets.eu/dwnwebsite, select a suitable variant (if unsure, select the first one with the lowest number) and download and install the software like any other java application. - The most confortable way is to download the proper variant to your computer and send the downloaded
XXX.jarfile to your device using bluetooth or cable connection. - For more information see this tutorial.
compatibility
Tested with the following handsets:
| Motorola RAZR V3 | OK |
| Motorola RAZR V3xx | OK |
| Nokia N95 | OK |
| Nokia N73 | OK |
| Nokia N82 | OK |
| Nokia E51 | OK |
| Nokia E65 | OK |
| Nokia 6300 | OK |
| Nokia 6233 | OK |
| Sony-Ericsson K700i | BUG The update function doesn't work properly |
| Sony-Ericsson K510i | OK |
| BlackBerry 8830 | OK |
| Samsung U600 | OK |
screenshot

feedback
Leave a short feedback
| 15/Aug: Work fine with SonyEricsson C902 in Switzerland. The best ever application for Weather. Continue and Thanks a lot! :)
11/Aug: thanks from France..! really nice 11/Aug: Please we wait for the next release without the time-bug... Please:) >>> (re: :) Thanks! Now I'm back and start to work on that! ) 1/Aug: The dates are one day ahead of real time >>> (re: Yes, it's a known problem but it appears only around midnight. I'll fix it in the next release! ) 28/Jul: i cant find Krusevac.http://www.accuweather.com/world-index-forecast.asp?loccode=EUR|CS|YI003|KRUSEVAC >>> (re: I fixed the database temporary, to find Rasina instead of Krusevac. ) 23/Jul: ehhh... it doesn't work with nokia 9500 :( >>> (re: I'm sorry, I'll try to find a 9500 and fix this problem soon! ) 21/Jul: very good app simple effective and easyto use 15/Jul: Thank you so very much. I am really satisfied with it. It would be better if we choose which weather options to display. 28/Jun: The update on Sony Ericsson P990i: OK! (Szep munka!) 28/Jun: 1.01.10 tested with Sony Ericsson P990i and all works fine. |
release notes
- UV index finally added
- fullscreen toggle update fix
- 96px variant added to variants menu
- URLs redirected to custom cgi scripts
- hotkeys added for most of the menu items
- uvindex and sunrise/sunset added to current screen
- layout fixes, more forecast info if enough space available
- network related bugfixes
- Blackberry problem fixed
- update bug fixed
- new urls for server access
- builtin font to support special encodings
- smaller jar sizes thanks to ProGuard and pngcrush
- fullscreen mode with '0' key
- city saving in UTF-8
- downloading only the data of the enabled cities
- skip overview screen if only one city is enabled
- try to fix update problems on some models
- threading synchronization fixed
- autorefresh and threaded refresh added
- calendar added for current view
- exit after update
- safer variant settings
- redesigned splash screen
- clock display added to current and overall screens
- wind direction displayed with arrows
- font problems fixed
- fixed weekday display on forecasts
- new splash screen
- warning after version change
- not allow to select larger version than the physical size
- help text extended
- back function on update fixed
- fixed minor layout bug
- manual version selection added
- first public release
- development started
source
Download the nightly svn backup here: weather-nightly.tgz(118MB created: 2008-08-20)


