Weatherman 1.3 now available in the Android Market
/I’m looking forward to getting some feedback. It’s been… I think I opened the github account on the 28th of December. I built and threw away a live background that ran cellular automata, which I really, really wanted to do, but Android’s drawing routines just aren’t good enough/fast enough to really allow for that. (The automata itself was happily running at 15fps, but the UI update was <3. Boo.
A commit on the 30th of December is really the beginning of this app’s life. Today’s the 6th. In that time, I’ve done more obsessing than I care to admit; I’ve had a really good time building this, and while it’s not perfect, I’m a great deal happier with the state of modern Android development than a year ago, and a good chunk of that happiness didn’t actually come until after I pulled Guice in as a dependency. Shame that didn’t get built into a core part of the API, IMO, but I’m happy now.
I wanted to call this Weathr; that’s certainly the obvious thing. Weathrman is just a bit too long for my taste. But someone else appears to have had a similar idea, albeit for the web… it looks dead, but there’s no point risking it, and this does just as good a job.
I remain concerned over a few things. I’d like to find some way to re-set myself as the active wallpaper if I’m the active live wallpaper and I update the binary. If you know how to do that, ping me. I hate the fact that every time I update this thing I have to go back to setting it as the current wallpaper again.
And I really ought to test this on a phone that isn’t a Nexus One. Should you try this app on something other than an N1, do tell me what the experience was like. Some things, methinks, won’t make sense - I should probably be more careful than I am, for example, about which image size I choose for download, rather than always assuming that bigger is better.
I look forward to hearing from you.