Google announced several new Pixel devices this week as well as new AI and services, some of them exclusive at the time of writing.
The company’s main announcement on its official The Keyword website focuses more on software and services, and less on the hardware of the Pixel devices.
Among the new features is a “better weather app” that uses AI to give “super accurate weather forecasts” and “custom AI weather reports”.
The app is available for Pixel devices, but APK files are available already that can be installed on non-Pixel Android devices. The main restriction is that it requires Android 14.
Some of the advertised features, mostly those linked to KI, do not appear to work at the time of writing. I tried the app on a Samsung Galaxy A55 5G device and it worked. Other users claimed that the app was crashing on them, which some fixed by clearing the cache.
The app is basic at the time of writing and on non-Pixel devices. Weather data comes from weather.com.
You can add multiple locations to it and every location is shown on the startpage. A tap opens more details for the selected location.
Here you get:
- Warnings
- Hourly Forecast
- 10-day Forecast
- Sunrise & Sunset
- Wind speed and direction
- UV Index
- Air Quality Index (for some locations)
- Visibility
- Humidity
- Pressure.
You can move the items around using drag & drop.
It lacks the weather background for the selected location and the weather map.
A tap on 10-day Forecast opens another page with additional details for the selected day and the period as a whole.
The app has a few widgets that you can place on the screen. At least one of is dynamic, but there are others that you may display.
I have not received any notifications, warnings, or AI reports at the time of writing. Maybe that is reserved for Pixel devices or accounts that are subscribed to Google Gemini in one form or another.
Closing Words
Google’s new Weather app is limited when you run it on a non-Pixel 9 device. It is likely that it may come to older devices, but that some features, mostly those powered by AI, may not come to older devices.
You can download the latest version from APK Mirror to give it a try.
Do you use a weather app on your mobile devices? If so, which app do you use and why? Feel free to leave a comment down below.
You don’t need an app for that and can get all the weather info you need from https://www.timeanddate.com/weather/ along with time zone info and several other handy info guides such as how many days are there between two specific dates.
That last one is useful when you need to obtain a visa for a foreign country which only allows you to stay for 60 days, but for which you can extend by a further 30 days once you arrive in that country. This is the tricky bit since your original visa will be for 60 days, but your flight arrival and departure dates will be for 90 days. This was situation for me back in 2010/2011 when I went to Thailand for three months and needed to be certain how many days there were between those two dates. Thanks to https://www.timeanddate.com I was able to calculate my stay precisely.
My Moto G6 came with a clock widget that has the time (tap to open the clock app) with a battery circle around it.
Inside the circle the current temp is shown above the time. I tap that to open the built in Motorola weather app that appears to get data from accuweather and weatherradar.
Also inside the circle below the time is the date. I tap that to open the google calander, which is the calender app I prefer because it’s easy to share with each other on any and all of our mobile devices and other calander clients be they web or local.
Motorola phones already do everything I need right out of the box. I see no need to add redundant apps. Like windows the first thing I do is go through and remove or disable apps I’ll never use. Also, Google is already getting all my data wether I like it or not. I see no need to share it with even more people.