After almost every reboot, the Windy widget gets stuck at the loading animation. Preferences icon is unresponsive, too.

This is both a bug and a UI problem, because at some point the widget should realize it's failing, display the last downloaded weather information and show an icon that the current info can't be loaded.

This message should only be displayed temporary. Then the last downloaded weather information should be displayed along with some kind of small warning icon that current information is not available.

The way it's now, when you lose the connection, the entire widget becomes useless until you get a working connection again, even though it could display the old weather data that is probably still good enough.

Some problems with the widget on Android 9.

(1)
Often the widget hangs after a reboot and the only way to fix it is to remove and re-add it to the screen. I think this happens when the network is not yet available, but I can't say for sure. Seems to happen 80% of the time.

• wait until network is ready before getting weather data
• if for some reason the network is not ready, allow the widget to recover from that

(2)
Then there's a UI problem with the "failed to retrieve data screen". If there is older data, this screen should disappear and the old weather data be displayed instead. There can still be a small warning icon that current data is not available, but the way it's now, the whole widget becomes useless when the internet connection is bad. That can be solved better. This is a notable problem, because otherwise the UI is very, very good. So:

• cache old weather data
• try to get new data
• if successful, display new data
• if not successful, display old data and warning icon

Hi. This problem still exists and the message you linked is not a duplicate of this at all.

Device: Sony XZ2 Compact
Android Version 9
Build 52.0.A.3.163
Kernel 4.9.112-perf+

For these two topics posted by Marienka above:

1. Widget hangs forever after device boot

"After almost every reboot, the Windy widget gets stuck at the loading animation. Preferences icon is unresponsive, too.

This is both a bug and a UI problem, because at some point the widget should realize it's failing, display the last downloaded weather information and show an icon that the current info can't be loaded."

2. Bad widget UI: "Failed to retrieve data"

This message should only be displayed temporary. Then the last downloaded weather information should be displayed along with some kind of small warning icon that current information is not available.

The way it's now, when you lose the connection, the entire widget becomes useless until you get a working connection again, even though it could display the old weather data that is probably still good enough.

The widget needs some kind of error icon instead of disabling it completely when it can't fetch new data.

This message should only be displayed temporary. Then the last downloaded weather information should be displayed along with some kind of small warning icon that current information is not available.

The way it's now, when you lose the connection, the entire widget becomes useless until you get a working connection again, even though it could display the old weather data that is probably still good enough.

After almost every reboot, the Windy widget gets stuck at the loading animation. Preferences icon is unresponsive, too.

This is both a bug and a UI problem, because at some point the widget should realize it's failing, display the last downloaded weather information and show an icon that the current info can't be loaded.