There are many apps to check the weather on Android and yet there is always room for one more. In particular if they are as cute as Rainan open source weather application that has the advantage of not requiring Google services to function.
If you’re looking for a slightly different weather app, with Material You as its flagship and completely free, Rain is a great option that has it all. what you need and a little more, with impeccable design
This weather app is very cute
If you are already fed up with Accuweather, Google Weather and other famous names, you can’t miss Rain: one of the weather apps with a very cute design. The Sun and the clouds have faces, there is nothing else to add.
Rain takes weather data from OpenMeteo which includes current hourly weather, 12 day forecast and additional data such as humidity percentage, probability of rain or atmospheric pressure. All this is accessible with an impeccable and very intuitive design.
Smiling Suns Match a minimalist interface which shows us what is most important in evidence and hides the extra data so that it does not overwhelm us, as happens in other similar applications.
An important fact is that Rain It does not need Google services to work and it doesn’t even need to access your location if you prefer: you are free to create a place from the coordinates.
Rain has a few options to configure its appearance and where it limps a bit is in the widgets, well it has only one widget which you can only configure its colors. This widget displays the date, current status and temperature, also in a minimalist way.
If you have a mobile phone without Google services (a recent Huawei mobile for example), you can download the FLOSS version from GitHub. Otherwise, you can also download it from Google Play.
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