RainRadar AU (formally BOMRadar)

This iPhone Application 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.

Features:

• Animated radar images (last 4 radar images from BOM site).
• Radar ranges 64km, 128km, 256km, 512km area selectable where available.
• Zoom into the radar to get a closer look at towns
• Current weather observations who temperature, wind direction/speed and rainfall since 9am.
• Favorites list to keep track of your regular radars.
• Locate Me option to find the radars closest to you.
• Wind Doppler for radars that support it.
• Radar Images have local time not UTC time.

Screen Shots:

Having known C for a while, I decided to try my hand at objective C. The iPhone was a good excuse to learn, and what better teacher than a guy in a cowboy hat. I purchased the Aaron Hillegass Cocoa Programming For Mac OS X (3rd edition) after it was recommended by some friends. Having no objective C experience before that, I worked my way thru the book in about 2 weeks. Once completed I felt confident enough to start writing my own programs. Taking what I learnt from the book I applied it to iPhone programming, and the result is what you see on this page.