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Forecast Blog
blog.forecast.io · Company blog · on HN since 2013
The team behind Forecast.io and the Dark Sky weather app, writing about app development, weather data, and radar processing.
What HN saysHN commenters link it for Dark Sky's Apple Watch app and its web-installed app write-up, which one commenter says was built carefully for mobile.
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- 1It’s not a web app. It’s an app you install from the web.2 people · 32 points · first shared 2013 · 3 comments on HN
- 2The Lack of an App Store Free Trial2 people · 6 points · first shared 2013 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Forecast.io update2 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
- 4Dark Sky has a new owner1 people · 206 points · first shared 2015 · 55 comments on HN
- 5Apple Developer Indifference1 people · 173 points · first shared 2014 · 80 comments on HN
- 6An attempt to create the highest resolution real-time map of global temperature1 people · 123 points · first shared 2013 · 39 comments on HN
- 7Cleaning Radar Images using Neural Nets and Computer Vision1 people · 94 points · first shared 2013 · 20 comments on HN
- 8Announcing Forecast1 people · 29 points · first shared 2013 · 2 comments on HN
- 9Skycons: Unobtrustive open source Animated Weather Icons1 people · 7 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 10A Simple Weather App for Data Nerds1 people · 6 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 11Dark Sky 5 Released1 people · 1 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
- 12The Forecast Data API1 people · 1 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 13Dark sky for apple watch1 people · first shared 2015
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thegrossman · 2015-03-31
I've been working on a weather Watch app (Dark Sky: http://blog.forecast.io/dark-sky-for-apple-watch/).
The WatchKit SDK can seem almost frustratingly limited at times, but I think that's for the better: I'd wager that the first crop of 3rd party Apple Watch apps are going to be a lot more rock-solid than the first crop of 3rd party iPhone apps, due mostly to the focus imposed on us developers by the constraints of the SDK.
muchabi · 2013-08-29
This was posted on Hacker News a while back too:
http://blog.forecast.io/its-not-a-web-app-its-an-app-you-install-from-…
They put a lot of effort into making it work for mobile devices, and it is indeed gorgeous. Last I checked it still stuttered a bit on Android though, though it's wonderful on my iPad.