Weather Gods 1.1.2

Hello Scott!

I'm glad you'll be adding support for landscape mode for the ipad! I have some issues navigating jhings id portrait, so I'm happy you'll be adding that! I'm glad you're trying to more notifications into the cloud, because maybe that'll mean more notification options, (EX: weather alerts from agencies like The National Weather Service)

Second thing, my Mom simply LOVES this app! While she doesn't use voiceover, I showed her the app 1 day when she wanted me to check the weather, & she was quite impressed! She can't wait to buy it & use it! I use that as my weather app whenever I need/want to see what Mother Nature is up to.

Third, thank you so very much for all that you do, especially with the amount of work you put into this app to make it accessible! I have used countless weather apps with varying levels of accessibility, & was not very impressed. When I heard about Weather Gods though, I was pretty happy, because I'd been looking for an app just like this, & now I have it. That was the first purchase I made last year at Christmas when I goj money on cy account, and I have NOT ONE SINGLE REGRET!

In short, thank you so cuch Scott, and please keep up the good work!

Would be nice that when we search for our area we can use the azip code instead of city. Never understood why since I live in Chicago, the greatest city in the planet, my location goes to a second rate city such as Evanston IL.

Hey Scott,

I am a relatively new user of the app, so please excuse me if this has been covered before.

When running the app I am unable to locate the iOS Status Bar by touch. Having checked with somebody, I am told that the Status Bar is not visible when the app is on screen. This is on a 6s.

Is this a local problem to me? Or done by design?

If the latter, my understanding is that Apple frowns upon this. I could be wrong. So, my apologies is this is the case. However, if you are unsure, it's probably something that you might want to check.

Hey Scott,

It looks like it is not prohibited, but not necessarily encourage either.

This is what it says in Apple's iOS Human Interface Guidelines:

"Avoid permanently hiding the status bar.
Without a status bar, people must leave your app to check the time or see if they have a Wi-Fi connection. Let people redisplay a hidden status bar by using a simple, discoverable gesture. When browsing full-screen photos in the Photos app, a single tap shows the status bar again."

https://developer.apple.com/ios/human-interface-guidelines/ui-bars/status-bars/

In regards to Holger's question about zip codes...I'm also originally from the general Chicagoland area, so I know exactly what he's talking about. Just as an experiment just now, I searched for a zip code that I know is definitely valid, remember zip codes are a little different than UK postcodes so sometimes they might cover a bit of a wider area. The one I used was 60611, and that showed that it was Chicago, Cook County, IL, United States. which sounds just about right. So, experiment number 2, I just punched in the actual city name, Chicago into Weather Gods, and got the following results as possible ones to choose from. I got that first one, Chicago, Cook Countty, Illinois, United States, Chicago Hights, Cook County, IL United States, and Chicago Ridge, Cook County, IL, united States. So that covers a pretty wide area there. So for now, my best suggestion is to put Chicago in there as a city name, instead of a zip code and that may be what you want to use. I would also think that it should be pretty easy to find the weather that matches up for that area, instead of another place like Evanston, IL. Chicago is a much bigger place than that for sure. I hope that helps a bit.

Yes.I did start with Chicago and it shows Chicago IL cook county and when I select it, for a strange reason location goes to Evanston Il.I am close to Evanston but I am Chicago, My code does not go to Evanston just Chicago which is 60660

This seems like a great app from everything I've read and heard about it. I'm wondering if the new notification system will make it possible to receive notifications in other countries? I live in Canada, and I was helping a friend with the notifications several months ago, and we discovered that they don't work in Canada. That is the one major thing holding me back from purchasing this app. I feel that the notifications are one of the main features of the app, and to not have access to them would make the app less useful to me I appreciate all of the hard work that has been put into the app. Each version seems to get better and better. It is my sincerest hope that eventually the notifications will work in Canada as well as other countries. These are just my thoughts.

Can Weather Gods just automatically follow you wherever you are instead of you having to select the city you're in? If not, let's make that a suggestion for a future update.

Hi,
Yes it does follow you wherever you are. You'll need to turn on the "follow me location" in the location screen.