Wow, it’s been a hectic two week stint! A few weeks ago I started developing an Android Weather app to display Australian weather sourced from the Bureau of Meteorology purely because the Android weather app I was using did not display the correct rainfall values: it said no rain, while I was getting drenched ! Now I have an Android Market app (Au Weather) including widget, almost 500 installs, product pages, a hosted server, the list goes on.
Since I released Au Weather on the Android Market two weeks ago, I’ve been working almost non-stop on it in my free time (birthdays are such an inconvenient waste of time – jk!). Finally I’m getting time to come up for air, but not too much, I’m aiming for another update this weekend. It will hopefully be the last for a while.
It’s still in the beta stage and I still have to decide if it’s going to be worthwhile developing and supporting it. The biggest issue is that Google currently doesn’t support Australian developers to sell their apps through the Android Market. Currently I’m hoping to generate some revenue with ad support – we’ll see how that goes.
As with any software there’s a never ending wish list of features. Some of mine includes at least two more widgets: a compact 1×1 and a wide 4×1 widget that shows forecast values, satellite images, radar images, select station from map, slicker interface etc. Maybe these will come in a future, possibly paid, version?