An Android widget displaying the current outdoor temperature.

Temperature observations are fetched from the nearest weather station as described at http://www.geonames.org/export/JSON-webservices.html#findNearByWeatherJSON.

Before building you need to run render-icons.sh to generate graphical resources.

Also, you need to create src/main/java/net/launchpad/thermometer/Constants.java:

package net.launchpad.thermometer;

interface Constants {
  String APPID = YOUR_APPID_HERE;
}

The actual APPID string can be empty, or you can get your own at http://openweathermap.org/appid.

• Add Crashlytics support

• On click, pop up yr.no's hour-by-hour prognosis and require the user to pop up a menu to access the preferences.

• Put high / low forecast temperature for the nearest 10 hours somewhere. Maybe on the right half of a 2x1 format widget?

• Put best / worst weather for the nearest 10 hours somewhere. Maybe on the right half of a 2x1 format widget?

• Write tests for Util.toLocal()

• Pop up preferences when widget is clicked.

• Don't show preferences when adding widget, it's just confusing and slows down the add.

• Fix random crashes by starting a Service rather than using an AsyncTask for downloading weather observations: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1864153/android-appwidgets-alarmmanager-and-asynctask

• Don't reload temperature data when preferences change, just re-render the existing data. Can we subscribe to preferences updates?

• Make widget display temperature for the current location, not just for outside my apartment.

• Add a preference for adjusting the shown temperature for wind chill.

• Show a timestamp and the name of the measurement point in small text below the actual temperature reading.

• Use the metadata field to display status messages about the temperature reading. Except for showing where the current data is from, the following statuses should be supported:

  • Fetching... (only when starting up)
  • Network unavailable
  • Wether service error, will retry HH:MM
  • Location unavailable
  • Bad weather data received

• Make sure that any state we have is outside of the AppWidgetProvider. In particular these references have to be stored somewhere else:

  • appWidgetIds
  • location
  • status
  • updateListener
  • weather On the real device with all its processes running, our AppWidgetProvider keeps getting killed off when others need the resources it occupies, and we need something else to keep state for us, something that won't be killed all the time. A service seems like the right thing here, and we need a service that can keep all that data for us, and that won't just go away as soon as we aren't doing anything.

  Read up on services.

• Fix the on-click response so that it actually pops up the preferences.

• Make sure the icon is actually updated every hour. Try using AlarmManager.setInexactRepeating(ELAPSED_REALTIME, now+15m, INTERVAL_HALF_HOUR)

  Testing in emulator since 15:21, verify that updates seem to come in as expected. They do. Skeppa.

  Done:

  • Ditch the system-provided repeated invocation of the AppWidgetProvider. I set the updatePeriodMillis to 0 according to this post: http://knowledgefolders.com/akc/display?url=DisplayNoteIMPURL&reportId=3299&ownerUserId=satya
  • Register the alarm on first startup.
  • AlarmManager.cancel() the alarm at shutdown.

• Use an Alarm to update every 30 minutes, but don't wake the phone for the update.

• Use wget to evaluate different retry schemes at a time when the geonames.org servers are heavily loaded.

• Make sure the widget displays something even before the first weather observation has been fetched / failed.

• Add a preference for enabling the weather station information.

• Verify the widget in the 1.5 emulator.

• Make two instructive screenshots on how to add the widget.

• Publish on Launchpad.

• Publish on Market.

• Change compatibility so that we show up on Market for new devices as well.

• Make sure "Network location disabled" shows up if network locationing is disabled.

• If network locationing is disabled, clicking the icon should bring up the system locationing preferences.

• Make text color configurable. Make a custom preference: http://www.kaloer.com/android-preferences Use the OpenIntents color picker. On ActivityNotFoundException, open a dialog saying "Color picker not installed, install from Market now?". On "yes", open the color picker in Market using a market:// URL. If Market cannot be launched, display an error dialog.

• När windchill används, byt temperaturtecknet mot en upphöjd asterisk.

• If WiFi becomes available, think about whether we should update the weather then. This is important for users without a data plan.

• When any network becomes available, from having no network, update the weather. Maybe limit this to twice per hour.

• Make an icon.

• Add a "Report Problem" button to the log viewer.

• Add device info, consisting of all fields of the Build class to the problem reporting e-mail.

• Change the View Logs preferences button into a tabbed interface with the first tab containing preferences and the second the logs.

• Populate the log view in the background and don't enable the report problem button until the log view has been fully populated.

• Integrate with SendLog and put a "Report Problem" button in the preferences.

• Make a layouts-w100mm wide-screen layout for the Actions activity to work better on really wide screens (tablets and large phones in landscape mode).

• Add info to problem reports to help us identify task killers.

• Add info to problem reports to help us reason about battery usage

• Write an FAQ about the need for Google Play, then link to that FAQ on devices that don't have it.