Android App Reviews

1Weather is a gorgeous weather app created by OneLouder, the minds behind apps like BaconReader and Tweetcaster. Like the other apps in the OneLouder catalog, 1Weather is full of useful features, all presented in a pretty package that adds a bit of class to any Android home screen. Not only does 1Weather show you the weather, it also provides real-time updates and social integration that helps you stay on top of the ever-changing atmosphere.

There are plenty of weather apps on the market, so what makes 1Weather any different? According to the folks at OneLouder, their weather app brings a “unique animation and graphics to create a more stylish experience.” The app is not just pretty (did I say that already?), it’s also packed with useful features and a gaggle of informative content, topped off with an intuitive user interface that just about anyone can manage. As a matter of fact, 1Weather is only available for higher-end devices due to resolution, resource, and animation requirements.

Enough talking about how nice 1Weather looks – let’s take a look at some screenshots.

When you first run 1Weather, you have the option to either choose a location manually or use your current location. The 1Weather Today page displays an overview of what’s happening right now with the weather in your selected area. This screen is dominated by an animation of the current weather conditions: the sun seems to twinkle and rotate, clouds glide in from the left, rain falls, and so on. You can add multiple locations to 1Weather and switch between them by tapping the current location in the top left.

Tapping on the main area of the first screen where the current weather animation displays gives you a 48-hour weather forecast. This includes a breakdown for each period of the day: Morning, Afternoon, Evening, and Night. It includes the projected temperature, precipitation, and wind speed alongside an icon describing the weather conditions.

Tap on Today to toggle between a 24-Hour Forecast and the standard display. The 24-Hour forecast gives a combined graph of the projected temperature and precipitation for the next 24 hours. It’s somewhat confusing when you first look at it, but makes sense with a bit of explanation. The x-axis is broken up into seven slots representing 3-hour time intervals over the next 24 hours. A bar graph displays the precipitation for each period and is overlayed by a line graph showing the temperature.

There are seven other primary screens that you can access within the app. Switching between them is as simple as a swipe or flick of a finger either in the main content area or using the menu at the bottom.

• 7-day Forecast: this is much the same as the 48-hour forecast, but is broken up into the next seven days. The general layout of the display is the same. Again, tapping the title here switches to a combined graph displaying the projected temperature and precipitation over the next week.
  

  7-Day Forecast

• Severe Weather: 1Weather keeps track of major severe weather alerts and will notify you of them in your status bar. The severe weather screen provides the details of any existing alerts. If nothing exciting is happening, 1Weather reminds you that this is a good thing (unless you’re a crazy storm chaser).
  

  Severe Weather

• Precipitation: this screen gives you information about precipitation for the next 7 days. Each day is represented by a bucket, which fills up according to how likely it is to rain. If you watch this screen for a bit, it will switch to what appears to be how many inches of precipitation to expect.
  

  Precipitation

• Sun & Moon: if you’re looking to find out the sunset, sunrise, moon set, moonrise, or what phase the moon is in, this is where you’ll find it. An animation on this screen provides a slick visual representation of the status of the sun and moon.
  

  Sun & Moon

• Tweets: this is the social component of 1Weather. It displays tweets related to the weather in your area from anyone across the twittersphere. It’s not a perfect feature, but still turns up useful information from your location. (On the other hand, you will often see some pretty random tweets.) While you can click any links included in these tweets, this interface is otherwise not as interactive as it could be, but that may be for the better.
  

  Tweets

• Top Weather Pics: this is another interesting screen which also has a somewhat social aspect. It’s a grid of photos related to the weather in your location. Tapping any one photo opens up the full size and lets you swipe through the entire gallery. Again, this is not an exact science so you may see some pics that don’t fit, but it’s still a very interesting and useful feature.
  

  Top Weather Pics

• Radar: the radar feature of 1Weather is definitely one of the coolest parts of the app. It allows you to see your standard weather radar map, which updates in real time. You can also switch between the Air Quality Index and UV Index. Each radar map can go full screen with full pinch and zoom functionality so that you can see exactly what’s going on in your immediate vicinity.

The Widget

Last, but certainly not least, 1Weather has one of the sexiest home screen widgets around. It packs about as much weather information as you could possibly think of into a clean and elegant 2×2 widget. It shows you the current high and low temperatures, precipitation information, date and time, location, and two quick indicators showing what type of day it is and whether the weather requires and umbrella. All this in a widget that is circular in shape as opposed to the standard boxy widgets you may be used to. While the 1Weather app as a whole is awesome, I’m all in it for the widget.

I grudgingly score 1Weather a 9 out of 10. I would love to give this app a 10, but there are two issues that seem to plague me. They could be related to my aging Evo, but I have not seen similar behavior in other apps. The first problem is that the Radar screen will sometimes be blank for no apparent reason. The second issue is that the widget will go blank, saying that the location was removed. Tapping the widget still loads the 1Weather app and allows you to set your location again, but the widget remains dark and has to be re-added.

These are pretty minor annoyances and I’m sure they can be easily addressed. The bottom line is that 1Weather has no equal in the Play Store as far as features and implementation go. In addition to the fact that the app is useful and beautiful, it’s also free. There’s no reason not to install this one immediately.

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Android has plenty of great weather apps, but we don’t always get the full picture from even the best Android weather apps. Sure, they might tell me that it’s 46 degrees outside, but just because it’s cold doesn’t mean conditions…

With it being the time of year where looking out of the window can yield such a variety of results – especially for many of us here in the Northern Hemisphere – it’s often a good idea to have an idea of how conditions will pan out during the day. On Android, there are weather apps aplenty, so it’s a good time to round up some of the better efforts.

Now, you’ll probably be aware that many clock widgets also feature a weather function too. However, I have left most of these out here, instead focusing on more dedicated weather apps. There are few here that tag a clock into their app, but I hope you understand when I leave something out like Fancy Widgets or Beautiful Widgets. So, for some informative, beautiful and useful weather apps, read on…

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“What time is it?” A simple question, right? If someone asked you the time, what would you look at? I’m sure that most of you have a watch, but if you are here reading you probably look at your smartphone more often. Like most of our possessions we want to customize it and make it beautiful – so why not make the time and weather more pleasing to your eyes?

Clock, Battery, Weather

Beautiful Widgets are sets of widgets that can tell you the time, battery status and weather conditions. When you choose to add a Beautiful Widget on your home-screen you get lots of different options. Here are all of them:

• Beautiful Battery 1×1 – a simple widget that shows you your battery status.
• Beautiful Home Weather – a 4×2 widget that tells you the time, date, location and current conditions at a given location.
• Beautiful SuperClock 2×1, 4×1, 4×2, 4×3, 5×2 – the same as Beautiful Home Weather but with a different look and feel.
• Beautiful Text Clock 2×1 – just a simple text clock.
• Beautiful Today 1×1, 2×1 – a simple widget that shows you the current date.
• Beautiful Toggle Widget – as the name implies, it enables you to toggle different features (WiFi, GPS, Data, 2G/3G).
• Beautiful Weather 1×1, 4×1 – the small one displays the current weather, while the bigger one adds a 5-day forecast.

Some of them are shown in the screenshot below.

They’re Resizeable!

If you have a launcher that supports resizeable widgets – such as GOLauncher or LauncherPRO – you can also resize all of the widgets. Each can be stretched without issues and adapt very well to new sizes.

Infinite Themes

Another thing I really like about Beautiful Widgets is the huge amount of of themes built for them. The application has a built in system for downloading new themes, as shown below:

SuperClock

The SuperClock widget is one of the most customizable widgets available. It’s similar to the Home Weather widget in a few ways. First, because you can customize how the clock is displayed (either in AM/PM mode or 24-hour mode), and second, because you can set up your weather service (Google Weather or AccuWeather.com).

In both widgets you can also set up what application starts when you tap the clock, the date, or the weather forecast. I’ve set it up so when I tap the clock it goes into the default clock application, so that I can quickly edit my alarms. When I tap the date portion, I’m taken to the calendar application.

The five-day weather forecast can be opened when you tap the weather portion of the widget. You’ll see a beautiful animation of the current conditions and a forecast for the next five days, and if you tap the forecast, another application can be opened. I’ve set it to open the News & Weather application – a little redundant I know, but I don’t have any other weather application installed.

If you want to have those “beautiful animations” when you enter a five-day forecast, you need to download the Beautiful Widgets Animation Pack. It’s free on the Android Market.

Speaking of animation, you can even set it up to animate when you unlock your device. This used to be unique to HTC Sense, but now everyone can enjoy beautiful weather animations on their Android. This has its bugs though. When you unlock your device, it plays the animation regardless of whether your phone’s screen is turned off (and locked) or in an application. HTC Sense, on the ther hand, only plays animations if the weather widget is in view. Beautiful Widgets’ animations can therefore be frustrating if you want to get quickly to an app or if you want instant access to your home screen. I’ve disabled it because it began to annoy me, but for you eye-candy fans out there, this feature exists.

I started this section talking about the SuperClock and Weather Home widgets. This is where the similarities end. On the Weather Home widget you can only change the theme of it and that’s pretty much it. SuperClock comes along and says: “Hey! I want a different layout!” and gives you the ability to change the layout of the elements. You can have the clock at the top, weather icon in the middle, date bottom left and temperature bottom right – whatever you want. You can also set it up to tell you your battery level instead of the weather.

But Wait, There’s More

So far I’ve focused on the SuperClock and Weather widgets, but there are also Toggle widgets. You can also add a toggle widget to enable/disable phone features such as WiFi, Data and 2G/3G – and, you’ve guessed it, they can also be themed.

Final Word

Beautiful Widgets is a great widget pack. Some of the widgets are just awesome and the number of themes is mind-blowing. It’s no HTC Sense, but it sure tries to be one.

The only thing I found a bit confusing are the settings. You can access them in the five-day forecast section, for your specific widget, or by the application icon in your drawer, for more general preferences. The themes for Time, Weather, Battery and SuperClock are linked together so if you change your SuperClock theme all the other widgets get changed to the same theme. The Toggle widgets and the Home Weather widget don’t follow this pattern, but that’s not too inconvenient.

All in all the application deserves a perfect score of 10. The small bugs are clouded by its sheer number of themes.

Miami, FL -  ChronGlobal Corp. recently released Tidal Chronoscope 1.0 for Android users. This is a new launch on Android Market, one that is an attractive, essential tool for water enthusiasts. It combines the beauty of a Swiss watch with new technology and old fashioned tidal expertise. Already a huge success in the Navigation category of the App Store, Tidal Chronoscope’s debut for Android users will turn the tides in Weather, providing tidal information and predictions, along with other important data.

Announcing that ChronGlobal Corp. the developers of Tidal Chronoscope, has released an amazing new product for Android users. This is a new launch on Android Market, one that is an attractive, essential tool for water enthusiasts. It combines the beauty of a Swiss watch with new technology and old fashioned tidal expertise. Already a huge success in the Navigation category of the App Store, Tidal Chronoscope’s debut for Android users will turn the tides in Weather, providing tidal information and predications, along with other important data.

ChronGlobal Corp. is proud to announce the launch of their latest product for Android users, called Tidal Chronoscope.

The application is similar to the iPhone version that shot to the top of the ratings within a week of release in the App Store. That app is called ChronGlobal Tidal Chronoscope. It still retains a strong rating and a steady stream of downloads.

Tidal Chronoscope, along with its sister application for other devices, is riding a high wave of success, thanks to its beauty, precision, uniqueness and valuable content. The app provides a host of critical information for water enthusiasts, to help keep them safe while enjoying their favorite water activities.

Users of the app are able to access worldwide tide information from more than 9400 tide stations. All of the data is displayed instantly, in an easy to read format that can be set to show automatic or manual selection of any tide station info, lunar and solar position for a specific location, relative position of the sun, tidal and celestial seven day predictions, and more.

Another feature making this app a rising star, is the display face. Users are treated to a beautiful, luxurious Swiss watch graphic, which not only provides tide, sun and moon details but also shows the date and time.

These are some of the features found in Tidal Chronoscope:

• Attractive, easy to use interface
• Simple and instant overview of current worldwide tides
• Lunar and solar position at your location
• Automatically retrieves local tide predictions from more than 9400 tide stations
• Optional manual station selection
• See tide levels for up to 7 days into the future
• Tidal watch face shows current tide level and hours, as well as moon phase
• Dedicated watch face for current moon phase and relative position of the moon
• Dedicated watch face for relative position of the sun
• Details about tidal and celestial events for up to 7 days in advance
• GPS based location tracking for accurate local tidal predictions
• Adjustable tracking parameters
• Favorite tide station list
• Imperial and metric units
• Luxurious depiction and accruements of a fine Swiss watch, including time and date

Part of Tidal Chronoscope’s popularity is based on solid tide expertise and modern technology. The ChronGlobal Corp team, who created the tide watch twenty-five years ago, has worked their knowledge into a mobile platform that allows users to carry this valuable tool along while they are out on the water. No one knows tides better than this team, and making the data portable is not only convenient, it also has the potential to save lives.

Device Requirements:
* Android
* Requires Android 2.1 or later
* 13 MB

Pricing and Availability
Tidal Chronoscope 1.0 is only $2.99 (USD) and available worldwide exclusively through the Android Market in the Weather category. Promo codes are available for qualified reviewers. Please specify the website or blog you represent when making your request.
Tidal Chronoscope 1.0
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About ChronGlobal Corp.
From the Miami Beach based inventor of the original Krieger Tidal Chronometer, ChronGlobal Corp. has introduced a remarkable application that tells the tide and is going to change the lives of anyone with an interest in water-oriented activity. This application tidal watch face provides an easy and instant graphic approach to tide info, sun and moon information. The team invented and created the tide watch over 25 years ago. For quarter of a century, the graphic approach to measuring the tides has been often copied but never duplicated. Now, the design experience with tide watches brings the market this remarkable Application.

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