Jakob Henner, a Copanhagen-based designer-developer has developed a very simple and elegant weather app, called, Sun. What makes it special? Well, it is not a native iOS app, but instead is a mobile web app. You can hardly tell the difference, though I found it working better on my iPad 3 that on my iPhone. It uses the location feature of Safari to show off weather from up to four cities. You can swipe and pinch and customize the app by using between Celsius and Fahrenheit, picking your cities and themes. It is a great showcase of the potential of web-based mobile apps. Try it out at pattern.dk/sun and follow Henner on Twitter and Dribble.
Beautiful! It installs and runs as its own name instead of another tab of safari.
I think it shows a lot can be done with just the safari. Brilliant work.
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Doesn’t work on Android? Disappointed
Abe
I said it was an iOS native app replacement
The potential of mobile web apps is limited only by the willingness of the platform makers – Apple, Google, etc. – to grant them the same degree of access to hardware (e.g., cameras) and software (e.g., contacts) features mobile native apps enjoy.
Ralph
Good points. I am sure this will be a slow and reluctant transition/opening up for the platform owners as too much money/strategy is at stake via the “app stores.”
I wonder how accurate it is? The built-in weather app from Apple (which you can’t delete) is a co-branded Weather Channel Yahoo and its forecasts have been lousy during U.S. the heat wave / drought this summer.
Very nicely done. Might even replace my weather app if it got some std capabilities (add cities, quit asking my location, color code by the type of weather or time rather than random, etc.
Looks like Google’s weather API outage has killed this project :/
Ben
Thanks for noticing and keeping us up to date on this Hopefully it will come back soon.
It doesn’t load for me.. I just get the ‘Loading’ circle and it never goes beyond that. I can get to the settings and view the other locations, it just never fully loads.
That is because Google killed its weather API