Appy Weather, a Windows Phone weather app with a personal touch

Appy Weather

Appy Weather has joined the ranks of the numerous weather apps available in the Windows Phone Shop. It hopes to stand out from the pack by offer a more than personal arroyo to the weather forecast and a simple interface.

While Appy Weather lacks weather radar and weather alerts (catch the update at the end for this has changed), its minimal design does await good and the app does deliver a healthy amount of forecast information to your Windows Telephone. Appy Weather makes a overnice kickoff impression and while in that location is room for improvement, the app comes across as a solid weather source for your Windows Phone.

Full general Layout

Appy Weather Main Pages

Appy Atmospheric condition offers three main pages for your current and future weather condition forecast information. They include:

Current Weather: This page holds your current weather information, what to await in the next hour and what to expect later in the day.
Tomorrow and the Weekend Forecast: This page volition intermission down the weather forecast for tomorrow every bit well as the upcoming weekend.
7 Twenty-four hours Forecast: While not every bit detailed as the previous page, this page volition lay out what weather conditions are expected over the next seven days.

Throughout the app, upward under the 3-dot menu you will find options to admission your forecast locations, settings (more than on this in a second) and the nigh screen. You do accept predictive text in entering a location to Appy Weather condition and y'all tin access the locations carte du jour by tapping on the location header on the app's main pages or through the 3-dot menu. Appy Conditions does support global locations.

The weather condition data presented past Appy Weather does have a personal touch in not merely offering the forecasted temperatures just also past suggesting what the temperature will experience like or how the forecasted weather should compare to the electric current conditions weather condition.

Many of the forecast dates will have a '+' sign that volition expand the forecast by revealing more information, charts or hourly breakdowns. This expansion push is difficult to observe at times (especially with the Dark Theme) and just retrieve you don't need to tap the Back Push button to minimize things.

Speaking of charts, if yous tap on a signal in the forecast chart a window volition pop-upwards to offering more detail on what weather conditions are expected.

Settings

Appy Weather Settings and Live Tile

Appy Conditions'southward settings are straightforward and what you would look in a weather app and and so some. Settings include:

Theme: Night or Light
Temperature: Fahrenheit or Celsius
Measurement: Royal or Metric
Time: 12-Hour or 24-Hour
Location Services: On or Off
Default Location: Electric current location or one of your forecast cities
Weekend: This setting allows you to change what days of the week constitute your weekend (Sabbatum/Dominicus, Thursday/Fri, Fri/Saturday)
Toast Notifications: On/Off. Toast Notifications warning you of when it is expected to rain or snow.
Live Tile Settings: Here you lot cull what information is displayed on the forepart and back of your Appy Weather condition Live Tile.

I really like that Appy Weather recognizes that not everyone's weekend falls on the same mean solar day. It is but another style this app takes on a more personal approach to the weather.

I also like that the app can recognize your current location to avoid manually switching locations as you travel. I would not listen having an easier fashion to alter your set locations. Shame yous couldn't tap on the location listing and accept a drop down carte to cull which city you want to switch to just every bit is, having to become to the location isn't too bad.

Overall Impression

Appy Weather is an impressive weather app and I like the personal touches the programmer has put into place. You can keep the information brief or expand things for greater detail in what type weather to await. However, there are 2 key features missing.

Along with current and forecast weather condition information, I look for my primary Windows Phone weather app to also include blithe radar and weather alert notifications. This doesn't mean that if a conditions app lacks these two features it should be tossed to the curb but information technology may be difficult to recommend such an app as your daily weather source.

Appy Weather comes across as a solid weather app and I like the personal touch on offered in the forecasts. The information not merely gives you lot the nuts and bolts of the forecast merely besides how they tin be applied in a practical sense. All the same, if yous need atmospheric condition radar it may fall slightly short of the marker.

The trial version of Appy Weather will last for 3 days, which is enough of fourth dimension to decide if Appy Weather is right for you.

Appy Atmospheric condition - Windows Phone 8 - 3MB - Trial / $3.99 - Store Link

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Stop the presses! Appy Weather updated

Updates are a daily occurrence with Windows Phone games and apps. They bring new features to the table, fix bugs and/or by and large improve the functioning of the app or game. Sometimes the timing of these updates isn't the best when you are reviewing a Windows Phone title and such is the case with Appy Weather. Later on spending several days with the app the app was updated late yesterday to version 1.0.0.four.

Appy Weather Alerts

The update does address 1 of my nits past adding an warning bill of fare to the app when a severe weather alarm is issued by a government weather potency. Forth with the atmospheric condition warning card the update adds the post-obit features to the mix:

Toast notification will now land exactly how many hours left till precipitation stops when it's expected to finish beyond 12 hours (previously it would just state that it will stop in 12+ hours).
When approaching the finish of an hour, Appy Weather condition'south Alive Tile volition at present default to next hour's weather condition. This is to avoid showing last hour's weather until the first background agent phone call of the hour occurs, which can be upward to 20 minutes into an hour.
A toast notification should be issued if precipitation suddenly becomes forecasted for the next 60 minutes.
The Alive Tile will now reset to a static tile with app icon when trial ends. This is to better visual cue that the trial has expired, and to not mislead users less into thinking the live tile has stopped working.
The update besides fixes a few issues related to the app'southward stability.

While I like the weather alerts, the app yet needs toast notifications for the alerts or in the least some sort of notification on the Live Tile to betoken an alert has been issued. To the developer's credit, such notifications are in the works and should exist included in the adjacent update.

Regardless, overall the update does assistance bolster Appy Weather's appeal and is a footstep in the right management. While I would accept liked to have seen atmospheric condition radar included in this update, the update may brand Appy Atmospheric condition strong plenty to be a primary weather app for those who tin alive without it. If you take Appy Weather out for a trial run, let us know in the comments what you think of the weather app.

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