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This semester I'm taking part in an independent study related to weather and mobile development that required me (as a sort of right of passage) to create a preliminary application on a platform of my choice. Being a Maemo user, I obviously chose Maemo!

http://maemo.org/packages/view/qtweather/

Qtweather is a simple weather app that uses data from the National Weather service to display weather info in night/day form. The part I end up using the most is the 'hourly weather chart'.

This isn't the final product of the class, but it is an app none the less, and one that I will be graded on! I wasn't sure if I should upload it or not, but I figured it wouldn't hurt.

The main reason though was to get users to start using it and hopefully find bugs or request features. The better the app is the better my grade is . Feel free to scrutinize the source as well. It's my first Maemo/Debian/C++ application (application in general really) so it's entirely possible that I'm not conforming to conventions, or not being as efficient as possible ect...

I just finished it and uploaded it today so it's obviously a work in progress, but any input at all is valuable. If you want to download it, you need to enable the extras-devel repo, and it's under qtweather.

EDIT: Screenshots:

The first of two windows. This is where you get prompted for the zipcode (and soon just a city).

The 'details' screen displays forecasts and hourly weather charts

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screenshot would be much appritiated

Great news that the Community has another developer!. Thanks!! I'll have a look and test today.

Ah wait..seems to be asking for a Zip Code. Guess it's a US only App...for now?

yea it is

but this is why i posted here, making it global actually wouldnt be hard. I just made sure i had a minimum working app for grading purposes, ill try to update it soon, breaks coming up and ill have plenty of free time

EDIT: i may have mis spoken, it looks like NAOO is a US government site and may be restricted to the us....

That's pretty sad as I'm currently looking for an alternate weather app.
Nevertheless will give it a try and report back (given I may access weather data at all from here when entering some valid zipcode).

hmm, let me know....the url is hardcoded right now so i feel like people outside of the states may need a .us added onto it....

Nice app. A simple ui tweak - Make it save the zip code, so it remembers your previous location choice.

good idea!
added to my to do

Tested it shortly and it works quite good, even if it's only for US. Entered zip code 12345 and got data for a town(?) called "Schenectady NY". App looks good but some thing might get improved:
* saving zip code is a must!
* loading time too long
* tapping on left area should also open some detail

Good solved: detail access on right side and overall overview.
But I think it's a quite generic app for data layout from US weather service and not easily adoptable for other data sources.

Thanks for the input!

*agreed, that will go in soon
*I'll try to work on that, but I'm not sure how much can be done.

*as it stands now, this left pane is kind of redundant. I'm very open to suggestions on how to use it because the information it displays is always going to be less than just clicking that day in the right pane


another thing I'm very open to (in part why I made this post) is UI changes. I'm a programmer, not an artist.... which unfortunately means my app looks boring lol, but I'd like to change that