pages tagged windspeedconverterBitPipelinehttp://www.bitpipeline.eu/tags/windspeedconverter/BitPipelineikiwiki2013-04-12T09:36:08ZWind Speed Converter release 1.5.4http://www.bitpipeline.eu/Blog/20130412-WindSpeed-bugFix-release/2013-04-12T09:36:08Z2013-04-12T09:36:08Z
<p>A new release of <a href="http://www.bitpipeline.eu/tags/windspeedconverter/../../Projects/WindSpeedConverter/">WindSpeed</a> Started to use the API key for use when contacting the Open Weather Map servers and better user notification of error when updating the weather station information.</p>
Wind Speed Converter release 1.5.3http://www.bitpipeline.eu/Blog/20130326-WindSpeed.1.5.3/2013-03-26T18:02:02Z2013-03-26T16:25:41Z
<p>Bug fixes, some visual improvements and some minor features for the lates release of <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.bitpipeline.app.windspeedconverter&hl=en">Wind Speed Converter</a>.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bitpipeline.eu/tags/windspeedconverter/../../Blog/20130326-wsc-complete-portrait.png"><img src="http://www.bitpipeline.eu/tags/windspeedconverter/../../Blog/20130326-WindSpeed.1.5.3/192x-20130326-wsc-complete-portrait.png" width="192" height="320" class="screenshot" align="right" /></a></p>
<p>Now some nice weather pictogram are shown in the weather station information.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bitpipeline.eu/tags/windspeedconverter/../../Blog/20130326-wsc-weatherStation.png"><img src="http://www.bitpipeline.eu/tags/windspeedconverter/../../Blog/20130326-wsc-weatherStation.png" width="109" height="86" class="screenshot" align="left" /></a></p>
<p>Clicking on the weather station opens a dialogue window where one can choose to see it's location on a mapping application or to dig into the details of the station on it's Open Weather Map Web page.</p>
<p>The releases since 1.5 also bring some bug fixes:</p>
<ul>
<li>a issue with the application styles that were blocking the application from running in Android 3 devices was fixed;</li>
<li>the connection to the OWM server was made more resilient;</li>
<li>made sure that there were no repeated units being displayed (the wind speed unit selected would show up in the list of converters and in the wind speed selector).</li>
</ul>
<p>A <a href="https://plus.google.com/111579638765461159305/posts">Google Plus product page</a> was created as an experiment on ways to share information about Wind Speed Converter and maybe receive input from its users.</p>
Wind Speed Converter release 1.5http://www.bitpipeline.eu/Blog/20130311-WindSpeedConverter-release1.5/2013-03-11T14:20:42Z2013-03-11T14:20:42Z
<p>A new almost complete recode of <a href="https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.bitpipeline.app.windspeedconverter&hl=en">Wind Speed Converter</a> is now published. The new version uses a lot of the open source projects to provide a more up to date experience and more features.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.bitpipeline.eu/tags/windspeedconverter/../../Blog/20130311-wsc-complete-portrait.png"><img src="http://www.bitpipeline.eu/tags/windspeedconverter/../../Blog/20130311-WindSpeedConverter-release1.5/192x-20130311-wsc-complete-portrait.png" width="192" height="320" class="screenshot" align="right" /></a></p>
<p>One of the most visible features is fetching local weather station info from <a href="http://openweathermap.org/">Open Weather Map</a>. It's still a "half baked" feature as there is a lot more that can be presented to the user about the local weather.</p>
<p>But it's in the development side that this application had a huge change (let's hope it's a evolution).</p>
<p>In order to have a consistent user interface and to have a manageable amount of source code I decided that it was time to join the trend and just use <a href="http://actionbarsherlock.com/">ActionBarSherlock</a> (ABS) which causes the <a href="http://developer.android.com/tools/extras/support-library.html">android support lib</a> to also be included in the application. With this two libraries the development is considerable simplified when going for supported devices that range from Eclair MR1 (android 2.1) to Jelly Beans MR1 (android 4.2).</p>
<p>A unfortunate side effect is that the final application package grows quite a lot: from 51 Kib (in version 1.0) to 572 Kib (in this latest version). A big part of the size increment is due to all the new images and other resources that ABS and the support library have to include to be able to give a nice UI in older Android versions. ABS uses more or less 1.5 Mib of uncompressed resources.</p>
<p>Wind Speed Converter is still a rather small application and newer functionality will probably not have such drastic effect on the size of the application package.</p>
New application: Wind speed converterhttp://www.bitpipeline.eu/Blog/20120911-WindSpeedConverter-v1.0/2012-09-11T13:10:12Z2012-09-11T13:10:12Z
<p>I decided to make a tiny application to convert between wind speed units. You can read more about it at <a href="http://www.bitpipeline.eu/tags/windspeedconverter/../../Projects/WindSpeedConverter/">Wind speed converter</a> or at <a href="http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.bitpipeline.app.windspeedconverter">Google Play</a>.</p>
<p>With a size of 50Kib it is probably one of the smallest applications you can install in your phone.</p>