2.0.30 | Appy Weather

This update focuses mainly on location related improvements: more reliable updates and extra options to help you manage your list. Firstly, another big apology for any inconvenience/unreliability you may have been facing with this; it’s not a straightforward problem, which is why it’s been a pain to fully resolve. I’m optimistic that it’s been cracked, or at worst much, much better than before and pretty reliable in general.

New

On the Locations screen, you can now long-press on each location to open its context menu. There’s slight differences between the options available for your current vs saved locations.
- You can now save a current location, in case you are away somewhere that you want to track the weather of again in the future. Doing so presents you with a dialog to give the location a custom (memorable) name if you like.
- With saved locations, you also now have the ability to rename any.
- Swipe actions are still available, but there are duplicated in the context menu for increased discoverability.
On the Location settings screen, you can now set the default from there too.
- Saved locations can be managed here too, like on the Locations screen, and you can drag/drop to rearrange their order now too.

Improvements

Big under-the-hood changes targeting improved reliability for background location updates. One of the contributing factors is a new request for you to allow the app to monitor physical activity. This so when you begin moving, such as in a car, there’s a trigger to seek an updated current location. Even if you opt against granting this permission, other improvements should still result in a noticeable improvement. To be clear though, none of your activity is stored if you opt in.

In our tests, updates were consistent and timely. Please let me know via email if your experience is different (would also love to know if you were having problems before, but are no longer seeing the same issues — to give me validation that the improvements are rock solid with no remaining gaps).
The currently selected location will appear distinct for clarity on the Locations screen.
Reduced the prominence of the precipitation probability/total hours pill below a bar in the Daily screen chart so it isn’t confused for an extension to temperature low for the day.

Fixes

When you leave the app from its Settings screen to Android’s and return, there should not be any odd layouts visible preventing you from using the app normally.
If your current location is not your default, selecting it should work fine.
- On a similar note, if you check your non-default current location and you have the sticky temperature notification on, restarting the app should work fine now.
Background color of time of day pills on Daily screen chart in Dark mode has been corrected to match its parent container’s.