Weather Forecasts for Switzerland

version 3.0.0-1: Aug 08 2025

• Updated translations: Estonian, French, Italian, Ukrainian
• Added a new locations database and overhauled the layout of the locations search page
• Improved locations search to give more relevant results in all Swiss national languages
• Switched the database to use Opal.LocalStorage under the hood
• Fixed disabling the complete app if the API breaks
• Fixed loading cover metadata under certain conditions
• Removed cantons from saved locations because the new data source doesn't provide canton info
• Removed lots of dead code and outdated example data
• Updated Opal modules and translations
• Note: switching to an older version after this update is not possible due to changes to the database schema

version 2.0.0-1: Jul 22 2025

• Added a fancy new table view that shows all available data, accessible from the pulley menu (try scrolling sideways to see everything)
• Added a new wind gusts graph, showing the range of expected gusts per hour
• Added a new sunshine duration graph, showing minutes of sunshine per hour
• Added expected chance of precipitation (percentage) in 3h intervals
• Added wind direction display to wind speed graph
• Improved logging of data conversion errors and database errors
• Improved error handling for cases when locations are no longer supported, or data loading fails
• Updated data refresh interval from 60min to 30min for forecasts, and to 15min for week overviews
• Updated wind speed graph to show data in 1h intervals
• Updated graph colors and spacing to be more legible
• Fixed precipitation display in multiple places
• Fixed precipitation calculation: expected amount, minimum, and maximum are visible again in charts
• Fixed broken locations showing up on the cover screen
• Fixed no longer supported locations breaking data loading: if a location is detected as broken, it will be disabled automatically now
• Fixed charts breaking when some data points are missing
• Fixed blurry weather icons on low resolution screens like the C2
• Fixed precipitation charts seemingly starting at negative values (#10)
• Large changes under the hood:
• > switched to Opal.LocalStorage for database handling
• > improved the charting library
• > removed a lot of dead code
• > updated Opal modules bringing in translation updates and bug fixes
• > backported fixes from Dashboard, Expenditure, and Captain's Log
• > and much more
• Note: switching to an older version after this update is not possible due to changes to the database schema

version 1.4.0-1: Oct 13 2024

• This is mainly a maintenance release to bring the app back into shape for future development
• Fixed overflowing text in day summaries
• Added a support dialog for donations, a proper about page, and an internal changelog
• Added translations through Weblate, you are invited to contribute!
• Added and updated many translations from Opal
• Updated packaging and infrastructure

version 1.3.1-2: Mar 24 2022

• Added a Sailjail profile so the app hopefully keeps working in SFOS >= 4.4
• Only permission is "Internet" for fetching forecasts

version 1.3.1-1: Mar 24 2022

• Accidental release, skip to version 1.3.1-2

version 1.3.0-2: Dec 21 2020

• Changed an internal comment to make Sailfish SDK's RPM validation script happy

version 1.3.0-1: Jun 16 2020

• Important: the app is working again
• See the last changelog for some changes that became visible with this release
• Switch to the official app's API
• Fix bug where day summaries were not correctly refreshed
• Update app description in a few places
• Update translations

version 1.2.9-1: Jun 10 2020

• Important: the app is currently unusable due to external API changes
• Disable the whole app for now (prevents unnecessary network usage)
• Changes (currently not visible):
• > Animate details table
• > Make the app usable in landscape mode
• > Remove broken summary background
• > Show the corresponding small graph when tapping on a day instead of switching
• to the forecast page (tap on the graph or the title to switch)
• > Update About page
• > Internal clean-ups
• > Fix some small warnings

version 1.2.8-1: Apr 19 2020

• Fix About page to show correct license
• Fix typo in French translation
• Add Contributors page

version 1.2.7-1: Dec 16 2019

• Implement extensive database maintenance which will be done every 60 days
• Round precipitation value in (generated) day summaries
• Update Chinese translation
• Always prune old weather data from database

version 1.2.6-2: Dec 11 2019

• Generate day summaries if none could be downloaded
• Fix typo in French translation
• Add Chinese translation (thanks dashinfantry!)

version 1.2.5-1: Sep 05 2019

• Make app translatable to French and Italian
• Translate weather descriptions to French and Italian

version 1.2.4-1: Mar 24 2019

• Improve startup time

version 1.2.3-1: Mar 21 2019

• Fix missing loading indicators on overview page

version 1.2.2-1: Mar 18 2019

• Fix some visual glitches
• Improve data validation to make sure downloaded data is reliable

version 1.2.1-1: Feb 11 2019

• Heavily decrease network load
• Fix some visual glitches
• Heavily improve loading performance
• Heavily improve location adding performance
• Fix refreshing week summary on overview page

version 1.2.0-1: Feb 09 2019

• Backwards incompatible: store more locations details and week summaries in database
• Include more details in shipped list of locations
• Attempt to reduce network load by caching source paths
• Make clock on overview page non-clickable
• Highlight items on overview page to make them more distinct
• Prevent day summaries from flickering when selected
• Improve some error messages
• Mark current day in overview page's week overview
• Use API fromt he official app to load better week summaries
• Improve handling of missing data
• Show sunrise and other sun times for each day
• Fix saving locations order (regression from version 1.1.0)
• Indicate current hour only in today's charts
• Greatly improve performance:
• > general loading
• > data loading from network
• > search page, searching
• > details page
• Add tiny overview charts to overview page
• Plus some minor visual improvements

version 1.1.1-1: Jan 29 2019

• Visually overhaul forecast page
• Show week overview for first 3 locations on overview page
• Visually polish table
• Fine-tune colors throughout
• Fix wrong wind speed unit
• Show weather description when clicking on a summary item on forecast page
• Improve code quality

version 1.1.0-2: Jan 28 2019

• Fix version number in About page

version 1.1.0-1: Jan 28 2019

• Backwards incompatible: store less data in database
• Show variance data in graphs (temperature and rain)
• Improve data loading performance

version 1.0.3-1: Jan 27 2019

• Improve translations
• Hide scales and overview on forecast page while loading
• Make status line dynamic
• Show zip code on overview page
• Add clock on overview page
• Small performance improvement while loading
• Add wind graph (with details in the table)
• Detect clicks everywhere on table list entries
• Add descriptions to graphs
• Fix slight difference in size of main scale and overlay scale

version 1.0.2-1: Jan 26 2019

• Use straight lines in temperature chart
• Add forecast summaries with symbols to the main forecast page
• Fix issues with graph width
• Visually align temperature and precipitation graphs

version 1.0.1-1: Jan 05 2019

• Refactor visuals of forecast page
• Show weather string instead of zip and canton in overview
• Fix temperature sometimes not being shown in overview
• Don't restart refresh timer when data is manually refreshed
• Add some busy indicators and animations
• Performance changes

version 1.0.0-1: Jan 04 2019

• Initial release