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BOMRadar is designed to let you look at the radar map for a particular area to see if there is incoming rain. The application animates the last 4 images from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and displays them in a loop. This was my first attempt at iPhone application programming so I hope you like it.
Features:
- Animated radar images (last 4 radar images from BOM site).
- Radar ranges 64km, 128km, 256km, 512km area selectable where available.
- Remembers the radar you exited on and reloads that when you start it again
- Remembers the range you selected and keeps using that until you change it again
- Static components of radars are cached to disk to speed up downloads, and to reduce network traffic usage
- Pause at the end of the loop to show latest frame longer
- Add Wind Doppler radars for cities that have doppler
Feature requests that I'm working on:
- Add a favorites list of radars as the front screen to make navigation easier.
- Add show the local time of the images instead of UTC time.
- Add Core Location services to find current location and indicate it relative to the current map, and to also sort the Radar list by distance from current location, and a button to load the radar you are on incase you don't know which one is closest to you.
- Enable a static version, for slower edge devices to reduce downloads
- Add Forecast/Alert information to the page (Currently Investigating how this can be done efficiently traffic wise).
- Make some improvements to the way images are downloaded to decrease the delay in displaying.
If you would like to see it in action. I have a movie.
If you have any issues, be sure to check BOMRadar FAQs to see if I've already answered it.
If you have any issues or comments about this application. Feel free to email me at bomradar-feedback@zethos.org.
Get it now from the iPhone App Store!
As of 18/09/2008 my app was No 1 on the iTunes free apps list. Thanks everyone, I'm glad you like it. The feed back I've been getting is amazing. I'm working hard on the next version adding in the most requested features. So stay tuned, there will be a new version soon!.
V1.0.1 is now in the apple approval queue and has the following changes:
1.0.1
Fixes:
- Fixed spelling of Buckland Park.
- Fixed the K on 64km to be lower case like the rest
- ncreased the timeout value on network transfers (this should fix those people getting timeouts on optus)
- Fixed a bug that if the application crashed, it would take you back to the same radar, and crash again
- Fixed a bug where if you selected a range that errored, it would remember that range
Features:
- Changed to a tree structure for nagivation, instead of one long list. It is now State -> City
- Added Wind Doppler option for those radars that have the feature (currently 6 Radars)
- Added a progress load bar, to indicate how the image load is progressing.
- Added a delay on the latest image
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