2.0.20 | Appy Weather

Hotfix: I’m aware there were issues connecting to Met Office recently. This should be fixed now, and not resurface. On the small chance it does — to Met Office or whoever you’ve set as your default provider — you are now presented with alternative sources to pick from (and are no longer in a limbo state).

I’m delighted to reveal our first new premium weather provider: Met Office, available for Lightning Pro users. This is one I’m especially thrilled to have as I live in the UK. Others are planned with their associated pricing/usage restrictions determining which subscription tier is a minimum requirement.

Improvements

One for new users: onboarding has been completely refreshed. Before you’re presented with a paywall, you’ll now hopefully get a really good feel for the app and its differentiating feature set/overall value proposition.
When you open the calendar selection sheet, it will auto-scroll to some time in the early morning when you have no time selected. And if you do, it will auto-scroll to the first hour that has a selection.
Start of day, sunrise and sunset markers now drawn inside the associated hour’s bar in the Hourly bar chart.
If a day’s weather has a shift (morning vs rest of day), then its icon will reflect this.
Fog will have a cloudy icon show (as opposed to none — will look at adding a bespoke icon in a future update).
You can now long-press on a selected time on the Calendar sheet to name it.
- Column and row header labels should have more emphasis too.
Text color associated with rain is now consistently white so the varying scale feels more cohesive.
Restore purchases should work more reliably, especially on a fresh install.
- Privacy policy link added besides it on the refreshed paywall.
If the forecast for your default provider does not load, you are now presented with alternative sources to pick from.

Fixes

You should no longer be spammed with the same severe weather warning notification.
When you search for a new location, on the Locations screen you can set it as the default immediately on a right-swipe (previously, if the location is currently selected, this swipe action would be incorrectly disabled).
If it’s a rainy weekend, and next week’s condition is not rain, you won’t have references to the rain duplicated in Daily’s summary string.
Location should more reliably update in the background. If you feel it’s still not, or there has been a regression even, please get in touch.
You shouldn’t incorrectly be labeled as a lifetime user when you’re on a Lightning Pro subscription.

If you’ve got this far, you may be happy to learn I’ve just released another app on Android. I think you’ll like it.