YWeatherGetter4a

An Yahoo Weather API wrapper for android

An iOS version can be found here. https://github.com/zh-wang/YWeatherGetter4i

It is a library project.
This repo also contains a sample project in /library_project.
Yahoo Weather API wrapper works on android 1.6 or above.
Sample app can be found on Google Play.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=zh.wang.android.yweathergetter

• What is this?

This is a wrapper for getting weather information from Yahoo Weather RSS Feed.
You can find its guideline here. Yahoo Weather RSS Feed.
Note that, if you want to use weather API for commercial purpose, you should contact Yahoo's staff first.

• How do I use it?

  • First, implement YahooWeatherInfoListener in your Activity. Overwrite the callback function "gotWeatherInfo", which will be called after querying from Yahoo weather API. And, you need INTERNET and ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE to use YWeatherGetter4a.

  @Override
  public void gotWeatherInfo(WeatherInfo weatherInfo) {
      if(weatherInfo != null) {
          // Add your code here
          // weatherInfo object contains all information returned by Yahoo Weather apis
      }
  }

  • Second, use following code to assign the location where you want to get weather information at. Or you can input the location in app's top search bar. YahooWeather class provides 3 methods to query Yahoo's Weather apis.

    1. Query by place's name. You can replace cityAreaOrLocation to what you want. For example, "Tokyo Japan", "Acaraù Brazil", "Shanghai China", etc.

    public void queryYahooWeatherByPlaceName(final Context context, final String cityAreaOrLocation, final YahooWeatherInfoListener result) 

    2. Query by latitude and longitude

    public void queryYahooWeatherByLatLon(final Context context, final String lat, final String lon, final YahooWeatherInfoListener result) 

    3. Use device's gps to detect current location. Then do the query. Remeber, you need ACCESS_FINE_LOCATION or ACCESS_COARSE_LOCATION to use this.

    public void queryYahooWeatherByGPS(final Context context, final YahooWeatherInfoListener result) 

    4. You can set connect timeout and socket timeout by setConnectTimeout and setSocketTimeout. Or get the instance by getInstance(int connectTimeout, int socketTimeout).

    5. Handle exception by using setExceptionListener.

• What kind of weather information can I get? You can get

  • current condition of weather, humidity, wind, etc.
  • forecast information for next four days.

  Check the XML structure returned by Yahoo Weather API here. http://weather.yahooapis.com/forecastrss?w=2459115

Developed By

Zhenghong Wang - [email protected]

License

Copyright 2014 Zhenghong Wang

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
You may obtain a copy of the License at

   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

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