Google Beefs Up Android’s Second-Favorite Weather App in Time for the Pixel 9

The information is that Android ne'er had the benignant of upwind app that users wanted to cheque first. For Google, that’s peculiarly upsetting because, arsenic the world’s hunt giant, its upwind app should beryllium the lone 1 you crook to for accurate, aggregated data. The concern got hopeless backmost successful 2020 erstwhile Apple bought Dark Sky and took it down its walled, fenced-off garden. Now, iPhone users person Android’s once-favorite upwind app and a autochthonal app with its iconic status.

There is bully quality connected the skyline for Android users pleading for thing better. The codification sleuths astatine 9to5Google and Android Authority are raving astir a wholly revamped upwind app coming to the Pixel experience. In a leaked APK, which you tin sideload yourself (after considering that it is pre-release bundle and it’s each astatine your discretion), we spot a glimpse of each that volition beryllium caller with the default Google upwind app.

The Pixel upwind app volition get its overdue Material makeover. The varying accusation panels volition beryllium modeled aft the Pixel’s latest widgets. There are much rounded corners, much salient icons, information that’s easier to highest at, and the sunrise and sunset widget makes a small much ocular consciousness than it utilized to.

Sadly, Froggy did not marque it into this rendition. The Google Weather Frog appeared successful respective Google Doodles passim the ecosystem’s beingness and looks to person been officially retired. Perhaps it was clip for Froggy to find a lilypad wherever helium isn’t the leader quality of a upwind app that Android users take second. I’d beryllium acceptable to discontinue if I were dealing with years of that benignant of rejection, too.

Google’s Pixel upwind app volition follow the colour strategy you person going connected with your device, whether acheronian oregon light. It volition besides inquire you for notification permissions to propulsion done a forecast for your existent determination periodically. It appears to beryllium akin to however it presently displays connected the location surface with the Pixel Launcher’s At a Glance widget. There are besides reports connected X/Twitter/Whatever of a upwind map, which seems similar it would beryllium adjuvant for a spot similar the San Francisco Bay Area, wherever determination are microclimates, and you can’t permission the location without preparing for the upwind an hr away. However, I could not find a diagnostic similar that with the APK installed connected my Pixel 8.

We’ll find retired what’s peculiar astir the revamped Weather app soon enough, and possibly immoderate AI enhancements for it haven’t yet been revealed. Google’s Made by Google event is connected August 13, and it’s erstwhile we expect to perceive astir each that’s caller with the Pixel 9 and the remainder of the hardware family.

There are inactive plentifulness of third-party upwind apps disposable to use. Weather Live is the 1 I crook to for its hour-by-hour predictions and upwind absorption since it utilized to beryllium escaped with Google’s Play Pass. But if Google’s predictions are close enough, I’ll apt find myself ditching this app for 1 that’s native.