asked 2015-02-23 18:52:21 +0300
I don't want to be impolite but hard to understand why Jolla invested resources in a weather app which is already existing with MeeCast. I read all the time that Jolla is a small company with limited resources, why you didn't invest your time in the existing apps? Most of them are very basic, a lot of functionality is missing and no alternatives available for SailfishOS ...
answered 2015-02-23 23:54:31 +0300
Thanks for the basic weather app, which is an alternative for Meecast.
// Update, to add something usefull:
Please cache the data for the details packages! This will made the reaction of the app faster and is necessary for usage abroad, where none or slow connections are regular. Also some people may simply doesn't use a data connection at all and rely on wifi only.
@hoschi@raketti This is not my topic that someone prefer a different app or the weather app created by Jolla. But all the other Jolla apps are so basic and a lot of functionality is missing if you compare that with other platforms, here it is more than necessary to invest the resources. If Jolla think everything is good enough and they can duplicate existing apps I am not sure SailfishOS is on the right way...
JonnJonz ( 2015-02-24 10:55:54 +0300 )edit@JonnJonz I agree that the Jolla Apps are really basic - heck, you can't even copy text in the Documents app! It's nothing more than a viewer - with lack of (lots of) features. But I think they should open up the app developement to 3rd party companies and I'm hoping this weather app is such an effort. But we'll see how things play out. :)
raketti ( 2015-02-24 11:52:48 +0300 )editanswered 2015-02-24 11:15:03 +0300
I think this topic can now be closed. Anyways, even if it is deemed unnecessary effort nothing much can be gained from post-mortem analysis. Posting the earlier made comment as answer to show image. Looks like weather integration has been on the roadmap all along - the events screen description shows it
As @Acce pointed out, weather icon has been there for a while as well. https://sailfishos.org/design/icons/
I think this topic can now be closed. Anyways, even if it is deemed unnecessary effort nothing much can be gained from post mortem analysis.
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It is one of the basics?!
chemist ( 2015-02-23 19:07:08 +0300 )editone obvious answer is that Jolla wants to fully control the app, whether this is a good reason or not I do not know.
pmelas ( 2015-02-23 19:08:46 +0300 )editI have a feeling the weather app was made more by Foreca than Jolla, thus being 'by Foreca'. And I for one like the app. I rarely have apps running on the Home screen, so this is very handy to just quickly look at the weather fron the Feeds/Notifications screen.
raketti ( 2015-02-23 19:10:11 +0300 )editMy guess is that the point of making the app was to develop the interface to enable 3rd party developers integrate to the events view, which for the weather app is a "test" app. But it might be my wishful thinking :)
Acce ( 2015-02-23 19:15:42 +0300 )edit@Acce unless something has changed recently, I don't think 3rd-party harbour apps are allowed to run in the background and as such can't update the event view anyway (unless they also show up on the home screen, in which case, why bother)... that may also explain the new weather app, since meecast wouldn't be able to use the integration (at least not in its harbour version)
mornfall ( 2015-02-23 19:26:16 +0300 )edit