Android widget to open zoomed somehow
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Hello! Like many others over the years, I really only care about my immediate local current weather, specifically the temperature, seeing the local weather stations is amazing and by far my used feature. The only way to have Windy open to a specific zoom level is via Settings > Start location and layer > Use Last Location.
That works great as it saves your zoom level but.. it only works when opening the android app directly.
If you are using the awesome Windy Widget on a home screen, you can set it to a favorite location but upon tapping the widget to open the app it uses the awful default zoom and my screen is filled with 100+ weather station temperatures and I can't see anything until I try to zoom in (which is tricky since if I don't move my finger fast enough it triggers a tap, not a zoom).
My workaround has been to put the app shortcut next to the widget and train myself to never ever ever tap the widget as it completely messes up the "last saved location" and I need to spend 5+ mins trying to get the zoom correct again.
A number of ways to solve it, but the devs would know better, a few examples are:
- In the widget settings, add a drop-down with zoom levels.
- In favorites, store the zoom level as well and update widget to also send that info when opening.
- In the widget settings, a toggle that when enabled forces the app to use the startup location+layers in the app settings (this may get confusing to users if they set their widget to Paris, but their app settings is set to Berlin, but that's on them :) )
Thank you for making the best weather app on Android! Dark sky left a big hole and Windy filled it extremely well.
