Release 3.116

  • Flowx will snap to the latest radar image -
    That would be absolutely great.
    The only issue I had was having to scroll back in time to see a radar image - that was cumbersome…
    Anyway thanks for a great product.
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@Windsailor, yes, I was finding the scrolling cumbersome too - even the vertical scroll. Were you using vertical scroll?

I’m wondering what to do there. I’m thinking of allowing users to change the sensitivity or base the speed on the speed of the swipe. For example, a slow speed will swipe over a hour and a faster speed will swipe over a 24 hours?? It might be worth a try.

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@duane I use both horizontal to get to start point vertical to view hour by hour

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Double-tap like YouTube.
Double-tap the right side for a set forward jump, double-tap the left side for a set backward jump.

Leave swiping alone until you have a universally brilliant change idea for it.

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As radar is the context, wouldn’t it be cool if…
Double-tap triggered an animation time scroll back to the original (last) time mark.

So, if you double-tap the left side of the map, and the set backward time jump was 6hrs, the double-tap could slow scroll time (and the map) forward 6hrs, hour-by-hour, min-by-min, whatever; and vice a versa for double-tap on the right side.

This feature-add should allow for increasing increments if multiple double-taps are done.

Using double-tap to replicate an existing gesture seems a waste. You know how much I protect my gestures :slight_smile:

I agree about leaving swiping alone until I get it right, or having the option in settings to change the mode.

I think we’re close so we don’t have to make major changes.

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Hmm… Not sure I agree. About swiping being close. I’m still always getting lost as I swipe in Flowx. Yes, when Flowx has my full attention and dexterity, I can get pretty good info from it… but my attention (focus) quickly wains and then it’s just an app to swipe out of.

I’m simply struggling with swiping a set amount repetitively. In keeping track of the days of the forecast. Keeping track of day vs night.

Up-swipe vs side-swipe is helpful. The timestamp is helpful. Setting a shorter forecast (is not desirable) but helpful. But the variably of swiping is both Flowx greatest benefit and downfall. It needs some killer refinement.

The double-tap feature might well be the best solution but I’m reluctant to rush into implementing the first idea. I take my time to think about features because they take time to code up and removing a feature is a very painful experience - users hate change and when I take something away, I will get a lot of hate.

I felt we prematurely added “single-tap” to the compare graph screen and then I had to remove it. I don’t really want to go through that again. It takes development time away from other higher priority features.

So just like the quote “hire slowly, fire fast”, I “implement slowly and remove fast”.

It has taken me 2-3 months to get radar working, I plan to release it with in a sup-optimal state and fix the issues over time.

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Nobody does.
You are the gatekeeper.
Wise gate, tiny steps.

Wish I believed a forum was a good method to develop a roadmap. I don’t. Hope you have sage methods of your own to track yours.
I can only hope our nuggets of a grand design, inspire a thoughtful grand design.

You’ve got a good track record going. We’re enjoying the engagement.

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By far the forum is the best method. I know because I’ve seen both sides.

Without the forum, I was repeating myself and having this conversation with many users separately with not interaction between users. So a lot of wasted time.

I’ve seen ideas develop on the forum much faster.

With the forum, it’s just managing many expectations. Different people have different priorities. Maybe this is the thing that is missing. Users don’t see the long list of to-do and their priorities.

Maybe I need to add this list to the forum.

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I feel ya there @duane

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How about the list of to-dos, features in progress, and requests in a format similar to redit or stackoverflow? Meaning that the order of the items in the list is automatically arranged based on votes from users.

Just to be clear, I’m not trying to pull focus from development of the core product, to develop the forum! I just think that this must be a common problem, and a done solution is probably sitting on the internet somewhere just waiting.

Maybe some other forum user here know exactly where?

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Another sugestion for the use of double-tap is to toggle between different groups of pre-defined combinations of settings, for example:

  • radar only (with the swipe not being able to reach times not covered by the radar data),
  • forecast only (old default, before radar) ,
  • hybrid-1 (as is default now), amd
  • hybrid-2 (with the swipe not being able to reach times not covered by the radar data).

Just a question what is wrong with the way the app works now? Why is tap this and better than swiping? just curious

Just because things could be improved further, doesn’t mean that something needs to be wrong now.

Flowx is my favorite app by far, and works great the way it is now.

Eaven for the best of the best, there will always be ways of making details better. That is how you stay the best.

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Taping is not necessarily better than swiping!

I’m NOT thinking in therms of tap vs. svipe.

Tap is so far a non utalized posebility that is not used for anything. It could be used for something, and this something could improve the user experience further.

I understand and agree with the mentality of @duane that effort spent at features that later will be dropped should be minimized, but not eliminated entirely. Some experimentation is a healthy and important part of innovation and improving development.

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@duane thanks so much for implementing this!

This brings this app to yet a next level!

And with the signature swipe user interface of Flowx it is by far the best app for displaying weather forecast, and now with radar as overlay it stands out as a unique forecast/radar/swipe-app!

Keep it up the great work!

Ps.
I’ve noticed that radar disappears when zooming out “too far”. I could guess that this is by design to prevent lag due to too much data to process, and a temporary fix while wating for implementation of a better way of handling the radar images from the whole world. (Am I right?)

Update:
When zoomed out all the way to world view the radar returns. So it is only diapering in a mid zoom region.

Update #2: Just, wait longer, and then it comes.

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makes me glad I don’t have a new device no issues on android 6 or 7.

There is double tap to open compare single to select product to load from compare single tap on current time after swiping returns time-line to current time tap in the menu’s. I understand improvements are necessary but couldn’t understand the big deal with tapping.

Yeah, if I wait longer the radar comes.

The pattorn is that first the count down for downloading the data for the new zoom level reaches 0, then a short while after the phone have processed how to animate the forecast, and a little while after that (depending on zoom-level, timescale, and what other apps are using the phone cpu in the background, I guess) then the radar animation apers on top of the animation.

So solution #1, just more patience to to the user.

And #2 for @duane to put some sort of additional progress bar, or countdown for the time until the data is processed for displaying the animation, or just an old hour glas symbol, or spinning arrows or something, indicating that the app is still processing something, though all data is already downloaded.

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