AF Weather Widget vs Weather Forecast USA
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
AF Weather Widget
This app is a fork of aix weather widget which is no longer actively developed. It is a compact graphical weather graph as a single row Android widget. It was written as a personal project in order to provide a compact graphical weather graph as a single row Android widget. The app met its original design goal at an early version, and most subsequent versions have been bug fixes. The source code is dated and not shiny, and there are several hacks used in order to make a graphical widget work on Android. The source code is made public domain as it may provide utility for others. Weather Sources: * Norwegian Meteorological Institute * National Weather Service * time zones and geonames from the GeoNames database
Weather Forecast USA
Displays 7-day forecast; weather watches, warnings and advisories for any location in US (Alaska, Puerto Rico, Hawaii and Guam included). Location is determined via GPS or manually entered ZIP code. Forecast is obtained from NOAA web services where it is refreshed hourly.
| Feature | AF Weather Widget | Weather Forecast USA |
|---|---|---|
| License | CC0-1.0 | MIT |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | BrowserWeather | BrowserWeather |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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