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The imagery from the eumetsat source isn't updating since yesterday 19:00 UTC, so unfortunately that means that Rainy Days currently is not displaying anything for the regions the eumetsat overlay covers. I hope this will be resolved soon, sorry for the inconvenience.

Update: Things are back to normal again! 

Rainy Days just passed the 400.000 downloads mark, amazing! To celebrate, here's a little update that improves performance and fixes some bugs.

New in this version is that you can move the map when the animation is paused. To do that use two fingers to pan the map. Because this uses multitouch it will not work on all phones and may not work that well on some other phones which have limited multitouch support.

If you already have the app installed, the market should notify you soon of an update. If you don't have Rainy Days, check it out in the market!

Edit: 2.2.3 unfortunately broke 1.5 & 1.6 support, which is fixed now in 2.2.4.

I just pushed out Rainy Days 2.2.1 that fixes some important bugs. On slow connections Rainy Days would sometimes crash or hang. I've now fixed this so get the new version!

I've just released Rainy Days 2.2, a small update to fix some crashes that are reported. Also not all of you liked the on-screen legenda, so it can now be switched off from the settings.

I also like to thank all of you who support Rainy Days by buying the upgrade or just telling me how much you like the app! Really amazing!

Hugo

Here it is, a new update to Rainy Days, still going strong :) In 2.1 I've added a couple of features:

• On screen legenda, ranging from light to heavy precipitation (yes, finally!)
• You can now search for a location, using the search key or the search option from the menu. This also allows for a lightweight form of bookmarking places, as your searches are remembered.
• As for coverage, Guam was added.
• For developers, you can now start Rainy Days with a desired location using an intent. Contact me for details if you want 'em.

Under the hood lots has been changed again to improve stability and make it possible to add new cool features which I'm working on.

Another change that I'm making is that Rainy Days will be ad supported as of today. The main reason for is simple: Rainy Days is costing me money. How much depends on the actual use of Rainy Days, but since the app gets more and more popular, the costs will rise and I need a way to at least partially cover those costs. In the past I've received some donations through paypal and the donation app, but while they are very much appreciated, the current rate of donations isn't enough to be sort of sustainable. Thanks again to all of you who have donated!

For those of you who don't want to see ads, there's the option to upgrade from within the app for a small fee, which will disable the ads on all your devices forever. The next two weeks I'll price the upgrade at only $0.99 cents. Sorry, I can not auto-upgrade those who have previously donated due to technical reasons, I hope you understand. Feel free to contact me for further details.

I hope you'll like the new features! You can get the updated Rainy Days app from the Android market.

I'm looking for testers for the upcoming 2.0 version of Rainy Days. If you like to help me test it, please drop me an email! You can find the address in the Android market. (Yes, consider that a test :))

Update: Thanks to everybody who has helped me test 2.0! I've just released the new version.

Currently US radar coverage is filtered a bit more in an attempt to reduce radar clutter. Please let me know if you think this is an improvement or not. Obviously I can't go over there and check for myself :)

While I'm still working on the next version of Rainy Days, I just pushed out an update for Rainy Days 1.9.
On some devices the settings screen could not be accessed and I've fixed this in 1.9.1, with the help of Karl Pearson, who was so kind to report the bug and test the fix.

For several reasons work on Rainy Days 2.0 has been a bit delayed, but I'm making progress, more on that in the couple of weeks!

Update: I noticed some crash reports in the Market console which I have fixed in 1.9.2...and that broke other stuff, so now 1.9.3 is out :)

Yet another update for Rainy Days, my weather radar application for Android! This update has a few new features and bugfixes.
First of all some display flickering that occured on the HTC Desire is now fixed. This also fixes any flickering you may have when running Froyo. I've also updated the app for Froyo (Android 2.2) so that you can choose to install the app on the sdcard.

For devices like the Nexus, Droid and HTC Desire I updated the menu icons so that they are of better quality. I also updated the application icon to make it more according to the Android icon design guidelines (judge for yourself if it worked out :))

Under settings there is now an option to access a few experimental features. One is smoothing of the animation that uses a fade effect. I got some mixed reactions on this from users so I decided to make it "experimental" and disable it by default. Let me know what you think! The other experimental setting disables the filtering of the radar images, which gets you more detail when you zoom in. The last option in the experimental section shows the status of the fallback mode that is in Rainy Days a few releases already, to help me diagnose problems more easily.

In the settings dialog you'll also find an option to make a small donation by buying Rainy Days Donation. Donating is optional, Rainy Days is not cripled in any way if you don't donate, I'm not forcing anything on you :)
As always there are many bugs fixed!

More screenshots are in my previous posts about Rainy Days.
You can download Rainy Days by scanning the barcode below, or by searching the Market for "Rainy Days".

Update: I've released 1.8 to fix a force close issue when loading the European overlay.

Another update to Rainy Days, my weather radar application for Android! This version features a few new options and fixes.

First of all, it is now possible to change the opacity of the clouds using the on-screen slider, for example if you like to see the map better. This is a per session setting, which means that the normal opacity is restored the next time you start the app.

There's also a new option to show your location on top of the radar images if you like.

Another change is that Rainy Days is now scaling properly on high dpi devices like the Droid and the Nexus and on lower dpi devices such as the HTC Tatoo. Short summary: it should now look a little bit better :) Also, on high dpi devices the image quality for Scandinavia and the US will be slightly better, reducing blur that was in the previous versions. Rainy Days will automatically select the higher quality images if your device supports it.

I hope you like this new version! Also if you like other areas to be added, let me know!

More screenshots here

You can download Rainy Days from the market using the barcode below or my searching for Rainy Days.