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Meteocool - Rain radar

Free & Open High-Accuracy Local Weather Radar and Forecasting
You do not want to get wet or follow thunderstorms? Then this is just the right application for you.

Based on the current cloud situation and the forecast calculations of the German weather service, you will be informed about upcoming rainfall at your location via push messages.

Currently only the Central European area is covered. We try to expand this in the future!

The application is open-source and therefore free of advertising and costs.

Features at a glance:
- Real-time notification of precipitation
- Notifications of rainfall (rain / snow / hail) up to 60 minutes in advance (push -> location access required)
- Live view on cloud movement forecast up to 45 minutes in the future
- Rain radar with automatic, fast update
- Live lightning card (via blitzortung.org)
- supports Android wide "Dark Mode" as of Android 10
- Free and Open Source!

Anti-Features

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Versions

Although APK downloads are available below to give you the choice, you should be aware that by installing that way you will not receive update notifications and it's a less secure way to download. We recommend that you install the F-Droid client and use that.

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  • Version 2.1l (34) - Added on Aug 29, 2021

    This version requires Android 6.0 or newer.

    It is built and signed by F-Droid, and guaranteed to correspond to this source tarball.

    Permissions
    • access location in the background
      This app can access location at any time, even while the app is not in use.
    • access approximate location only in the foreground
      This app can get your approximate location from location services while the app is in use. Location services for your device must be turned on for the app to get location.
    • access precise location only in the foreground
      This app can get your precise location from location services while the app is in use. Location services for your device must be turned on for the app to get location. This may increase battery usage.
    • view network connections
      Allows the app to view information about network connections such as which networks exist and are connected.
    • run foreground service
      Allows the app to make use of foreground services.
    • have full network access
      Allows the app to create network sockets and use custom network protocols. The browser and other applications provide means to send data to the internet, so this permission is not required to send data to the internet.
    • run at startup
      Allows the app to have itself started as soon as the system has finished booting. This can make it take longer to start the phone and allow the app to slow down the overall phone by always running.
    • prevent phone from sleeping
      Allows the app to prevent the phone from going to sleep.

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