Thread: FlipClock Beta
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Originally Posted by jolouis View Post
Well the key would be to pull that data from somewhere... i.e. stock info has to come from a stock site somehow, weather data needs to come from a weather site, etc. This all really gets beyond the original scope of Flip, since the whole point was to make this as a fully functional alarm clock, not a complete tablet control app... I just don't want to end up building another MediaBox (which has a giant clock display as one of it's screens while music is playing/etc).
I wholeheartedly agree - keep Flip simple with its purpose in mind.

Trying to comingle a clock with Weather, stocks, news, RSS, and what not will only make this crazy.

For the weather bit (if you must do it), maybe instead of getting weather info online, it could just take the weather data stored on the tablet from an already installed weather app (like OmWeather or Foreca Weather) and just work off that stored data in the way you mention (I loved that idea of the clock background showing the weather pattern).

So that way you could just leverage off the installed app (with a note to users that they need to have Omweather or Foreca installed for it to work.

Lacking that dedicated weather app, the Flip app would just work normally with normal backgrounds. So this way you do not have to make Flip a dedicated weather app too (or a stock app or a news app etc). Just keep Flip dedicated to being a clock.
 

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