Stopping by to announce the release 1.1 of Weather God is now on the App Store.
There are some big changes in this release including a lot of changes for Voiceover users.
1. Feels like temperature
Now available in Settings. This is applied globally throughout the app. It is also affects whether the gods are awake or not. For example the Ice God might have been sleeping because the temperature was just above freezing, but will now be awake if the feels like takes the temperature below freezing.
We listened to all the feedback about the feels like temperature and have updated to have the feels like value alongside the actual temperature. So voiceover will now speak the actual temperature and then the feels like value, assuming of course feels like is switched on in settings :)
We also added a new three finger swipe down gesture to the timeline, this will cycle through the gods on the timeline (not the moon god).
Just a quick message to say we've released 1.1.2 today.
The main change is we've fixed the feels like temperature for the day high and low being wrong with voiceover - we managed to flip our heat index and wind chill :)
Our next update is 1.2 and probably the biggest change will be support for the iPad in landscape mode.
Just stopping by to announce that release 1.2 is now on the App Store.
The major change for this release is that we've re-engineered out push notification system and moved them into our new cloud system, which we're calling Olympus.
This means you no longer need to keep Weather Gods in the switcher :) and can safely swipe it away and notifications will continue to arrive.
- a fully accessible version of Weather Gods on your wrist, split into two parts; a smart weather complication and a watch app.
- German localisation
- Japanese localisation
Just to let you know that Weather Gods 1.4.1 will be hitting the app store shortly.
This update is mainly for the Apple Watch, and includes:
- Day high and low on the main screen
- Summaries for today, tonight, tomorrow on the main screen
- Improved location discovery
- Performance improvements
Please let us have any feedback, suggestions etc and if you're enjoying your time with the Weather Gods, then we would love a review on the App Store!
The next update will have us switching back to the main app :)
Our 1.5 update should be hitting the app store in the next 12-24 hours.
Something important to note ... the main screen mentions the app being 'subscription only' - please ignore. It will become subscription only eventually for all new users, but not yet. Anyone who has the app will not be asked to take out a subscription.
Just a quick update to say that 1.5.1 should be on the App Store shortly.
The main changes are:
1. Voiceover will announce the sunrise and sunset times in the weather wheel in addition to the smart weather conditions
2. Follow me should be working now, however, you might need to go into settings and set the location permission to 'always'
3. We removed the message at startup about the app being a subscription only service.
Another update should be hitting the App Store shortly - sorry for the flurry of updates, we are trying to have more smaller updates and more often. It makes our testing easier.
The updates for 1.5.2 are as follows:
1. iPhone X: hopefully everything will now run fine when people get them on Friday. We've taken Apple's advice and avoided the new touch areas (safe areas Apple calls them). I'm hoping voiceover works just as normal.
Release 1.5.3 should be hitting the App Store shortly.
There are a few significant changes for voiceover:
1. Daily summaries for day / night are now available for each of the day menu buttons. As you swipe along the day menu, voiceover will announce a summary.
2. Enhanced summaries for widget, notifications and Apple Watch. Voiceover should now speak the summary in a more natural way, expanding cardinal points and temperatures. Please let us know if you find anything that isn't quite working.
Just a quick update to say that Weather Gods 1.6 has been released.
This has been a big update for us in terms of the internals of the app and the user interface. A lot has changed. We have also added Norwegian and I would like to say a massive thank you to Cliff Isaksen who carried out the translation and ensured that all the voiceover translations were spot on.
No, I didn't expect to be back quite so soon either :)
Unfortunately the last release introduced a very nasty random bug which would cause the weather wheel to crash. It affected about 2-3% of our user base, but I wasn't happy to leave it. Hopefully this one has now been squashed, although I was never able to reproduce it with my testing.
I also took the opportunity to fix a couple of other annoying bugs:
This release should be hitting the store shortly and hopefully fixes the notification problem.
Important: this is the first update from our new company Weather Gods Ltd. We've had many issues trying to get the update to the store. I'll try and describe the process and then the problem we have had.
Just a small update appearing on the app store shortly ...
1. We have improved the location tracking of the watch complication when running a GPS location. As a result of the tweaking, you should find the follow me notifications a little more reliable as well.
2. The weather not updating when resuming the app has been fixed.
3. Finally, the GPS location in the app will also update when the app is resumed.
Just a quick reminder ... to enable the watch complication in GPS mode:
Our 1.8 release should be hitting the store by now.
It's taken longer than we expected, Siri proved challenging with Voiceover for us, but I think we got there in the end with the help of our iOS12 beta testers.