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Rainy Days 1.2 released

Another release of Rainy Days has been published in the market! It took a little while longer than I anticipated, but I think it was worth the wait.

In this version I’ve added rainfall data for a large part of Europe. When you pan and zoom the map the best image for your location will be selected. If you zoom out you’ll get the Europe rainfall data, and when you zoom in to The Netherlands you’ll get the more detailed rainfall prediction. When there is no data available it will now be visible in the screen, and not the time display for some part of the world you don’t live in :) Other changes include:

  • Better placing of the rainfall images on the map (more accurate)
  • Show my location feature that will, ehm, show your location on the map
  • Animation speed is configurable now
  • Clouds now look prettier at high zoomlevels
  • Experimental mode for Android devices that didn’t show any images previously. (this might be still be a lit buggy and is less pretty than normal mode).

But the biggest change are in the internals of the application. I’ll keep working on adding more coverage, I hope to report on that soon.

Check out the screenshots below and get the new version from the market using the barcode scanner, or by simply searching for Rainy Days. Enjoy!

Rainy Days barcode

Preview: Snow and rain over Europe with Rainy Days

Here’s a sneak preview showing an update for Rainy Days that I’m working on. The most obvious feature is the Europe coverage, but I’ve included other improvements too, which I’ll blog about later.

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Help me fixing Rainy Days on Samsung Galaxy

I’m getting some reports that Rainy Days is not working right or at all on the Samsung Galaxy (Spica). Unfortunately I don’t have access to that phone, so I’m looking for peope who can help me to debug issues. If you have installed Rainy Days on your Galaxy and all is working fine, I’d like to know too!

If Rainy Days is acting strange on your phone, please help me by sending a log of the phone to android (at) neenbedankt dot com. To send me a log download Log Collector from Xtralogic. First run Rainy Days, wait a minute or so and then use Log Collector to send the log by mail to me. Please send me the entire log, not only the snippets you think are interesting.

Here’s the bar code for Log Collector:

Rainy Days update released, timestamp added.

As promised earlier, a new version of Rainy Days been released. This version adds the timestamp to the map so that you can see when it’s safe to go out the door :) I’ve also changed some things related to caching of the rainfall image on your device.

I already got some request to add more countries and regions to the map. Don’t worry, I’m working on it! For now enjoy the new version.

Rainy Days update later today adds timestamp

Just a quick heads up: I’ll be releasing an update to Rainy Days later today, which will add the timestamp on the displayed images. I got many request to add that and so I did.

Here’s a screenshot of what it will look like.

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My first published (and free) android app: Rainy Days

So there you have it: I’ve released my first free app just now. It’s called Rainy Days and show you rainfall radar images from buienradar.nl overlaid on Google Maps. This allows you to zoom and pan the map as you would expect. Simply double tap to zoom in and long press to zoom out. Ofcourse you can choose between satellite or maps view and if you rather like to zoom using the normal maps zoom controls you can set that as a preference.

Currently it shows you the rainfall in a large area around The Netherlands, and I’m looking to extend the coverage in the near future.

To download Rainy Days, search for “Rainy Days” in the market app or scan this barcode with your android:

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Feedback and comments are ofcourse very welcome!