Show HN: Live weather radar wallpaper for Android

6 pointsposted 4 months ago
by ryandvm

7 Comments

user

4 months ago

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jaggs

4 months ago

When global?

ryandvm

4 months ago

Part of the reason this is possible for us is because the National Weather Service currently provides a free feed of raw (Level 2) radar data from their NEXRAD network (https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-nexrad/).

Assuming other national data feeds could be acquired and decoded at a fairly low cost, then other feeds could theoretically be added.

I suppose whether or not this project is successful is probably the determining factor in our case.

jaggs

4 months ago

Oh I see. Yeah that could be a bit of a constraint couldn't it? Well I wish you luck.

HardwareLust

4 months ago

"Your device isn't compatible with this version."

I hate that Google Play doesn't tell you why.

ryandvm

3 months ago

I know that some Motorola devices don't support Live Wallpapers. I'm guessing that's the problem because otherwise the permissions we use are pretty basic (coarse location, network access).

HardwareLust

3 months ago

Yeah, this is not the first time I've run into app issues with my Moto phone. I won't be buying another one after this one wears out.