SkyPredict

A weather forecast app

This is my version of Udacity's Project Sunshine learnt from the course Developing Android Apps .

NOTE: The app is still in development and hence incomplete and has been published at an intermediate stage.

SkyPredict aka Sunshine is a basic weather app that uses the Open Weather API to provide users with a 14 day forecast of the weather at their chosen location.

The app is based on course provided by Udacity and based on content provided by Google Inc the makers of Android covers the use of:-

• Android Studio & Gradle

• User Interface and Layout managers

• ListViews & Adapters

• Threading & ASyncTask

• HTTP requests, web APIs

• Android Permissions

• App navigation with Explicit Intents

• Implicit Intents to incorporate 3rd-party apps

• Share Intent & Android sharing framework

• Broadcast Intents & Receivers

• Activity lifecycle

• SQLite databases

• JUnit tests

• Creating and using a Content Providers

• Loaders & asynchronous loading of data

• Bind UI components to Content Providers with Adapters

• Android design principles

• Localization and variable screen sizes

• Tablet UIs & Fragments

• Accessibility

• Custom views

• Background services

• Alarms

• Efficient data transfers with SyncAdapters

• Rich notifications

The course rated as 'advanced'. It requires about 60 hours of study and a reasonable level of previous Java experience.