Widgets on Android stopped working after the last update
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@thomasn-1 The refresh is triggered by the widget and the refresh time was always set to one hour. We made some changes under the hood - the old mechanism was unreliable because on most devices the automatic refresh did not work at all.
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@MarkNagy hi Mark, ok thx, that would have been valuable information, that the refresh was always one hour, so,then all my observations have been coincidentally.
Please consider providing options to have shorter refresh cycles, at least for the weather radar, if technically possible.
Best Regards,
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When I disable battery optimalization for Windy app it has big battery drain. CPU is forced to run on higher frequencies due it.
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I meanwhile setup a launcher screen with three weather radar widgets for comparison.
The one from Windy, one from the German weather service and one from wetteronline.deWindy has the lowest refresh rate at 1 hour.
Wetteronline.de refreshes every 15 minutes
The German weather services widget seems to refresh around every 5 minutesLooking at the optics, I like the Windy widet the most and it is international.
Wetteronline.de seems to be international as well, but I don‘t like the graphics very much and there‘s a fixed zoom factor which is very tight.
The one from German weather services does not allow to zoom at all, so I see the whole country which is less useful and it is Germany only, but the most accurate.Well……as said, I like the Windy widget the most, if it would just refresh more often :-(
If you could improve this, I‘m back to Windy again.Best Regards,
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Hi, as it was mentioned here already, we already released an update (version 39.1.4, build date 2023-7-28), which should help to solve major problems with widgets since the update to version 39. Please check this post for more info.
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@Ondřej-Šutera that I understood thx.
How about a refresh every 15 minutes to make the widget more usable. Is this something you consider? The Windy weather radar on my IPad does this. -
I think that @MarkNagy already said this here in Widgets on Android stopped working after the last update:
@thomasn-1 Thanks for the suggestions. As you mentioned, 15 minute updates would be using the battery much more. Unfortunately widgets are not designed to fetch data when you check the screen with the installed widgets - in fact the widget does not have a trigger which indicates this action. Anyway we will consider implementation of a much more frequent widget update option.
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@MarkNagy thank you for the note and installed latest version along with following instructions. The app still cannot grab a GPS location which I suspect is causing the widget to spin endlessly. Permission Manager shows Windy polling for a location tho.
/e/OS (port of Lineage OS) is releasing an update soon so will see if that has any positive effect on v39.x. Will go back to using v38.1.5 in the meantime.
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Remove at last that annoying widget refresh animation (spinning circle) please. It is nonstop spinning. Thanks
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@Ondřej-Šutera Even with a complete uninstall, then installing the new version, disabling the battery optimization didn't change anything for me. The widget still doesn't update unless I switch to a new location. Manual refreshes don't change anything reg. the temperature. Horrible experience. (Android 8)
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@madjoe And do you have version 39.1.4 with build date 2023-7-28? All this info is at the bottom of the menu.
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@Ondřej-Šutera That's exactly my build date/version.
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@Roman-Pertzian-2 why?
Then we don‘t even see that something is not working and can‘t report the issue! -
@madjoe Same for me as above.
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@Ondřej-Šutera said in Widgets on Android stopped working after the last update:
we already released an update (version 39.1.4, build date 2023-7-28), which should help to solve major problems with widgets
I've installed this version/build yesterday and the widget still can't refresh the forecast and current temperature, not even when I force update it via the elipsis > refresh button. If I change location and go back to GPS, the widget refreshes fine.
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I have this same issue with the widget, removed widgets, uninstalled windy, installed windy, added widgets, added location and battery permissions. Still not updating, even the auto update doesn't work, I have to open the app to see what the temperature is.
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Okay, thank you for confirmation, I will forward this to colleagues to consider further options. I am sorry for these troubles with widgets and I am asking for a patience with this.
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@Ondřej-Šutera Let me know if you guys need me to capture any logs in the meantime. Just tell me what debug app to load if so. Thanks for staying on this!
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@sethro2 Hi. Thanks for the help. Have you tried our latest beta? I think it was released yesterday.
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@MarkNagy happy to give the latest beta a try. The Public Beta section in the forum is closed. Is there a direct download link that I can use?
