AuroraCast - Aurora & Northern

★★★★★ Great aurora forecast app with live feeds too. The cloud cover and light pollution maps are brilliant too. I just hope they keep developing it and not give up on it like the last app they did. I paid for the last one as I have for this one and would like a bit more longevity out of it.

★★★★★ Great app with everything I was looking for in one place. Fantastic support; the issues I had were addressed and fixed very quickly. I would give 5 starts, but I haven't yet used this in a practical situation. I think it will be great

★★☆☆☆ Yes I do know my stuff, and if I had an interest in developing an app for Aurora Borealis locations and viewing I would do it. But my interest is mainly in following Google developer guidelines using modern systems and ways to develop an app and using an up-to-date permissions model. But I'm trying to help you I'm not trying to hurt you rather than insult me just make the changes that everyone wishes that you would make, and your app would be a lot better and more usable and more download it than all the other Aurora apps out there. My Aurora Forecast - Aurora Alerts Northern Lights: that app is a good example of how to allow users to enter a specific area as opposed to demanding that they always have their phone location on tap, completely unnecessary. Ya, about location permission for weather info: I use Weather Underground, and it does not require location permission at all, I can put it in the ZIP code, or I can give it location permission. I choose to give it location permission, but Weather Underground and in fact no other weather app including Weather Underground crashes because you decide not to give it permission for location. No you are wrong, your app does not need permission for location in order to run properly. As a matter of fact many complain that your app won't work alongside other weather apps when it should. There's no reason why it can't. The OK button you speak of in order to get rid of the green transparency KP definition does not exist. And because of the way the permissions are being asked the old Lollipop security model, to stay active in the developer Community you're going to need to start using the marshmallow/nougat permissions API. No one will argue that an app that is using an old security permissions model won't run in nougat that isn't the argument is you using an old permissions model and that's enough to get you kicked out of the developer Community especially if you're going to try to do it do anything in oreo, you're actually going to have to commit to using the more modern permissions model, so you might as well get used to it and do it now. I didn't say I was getting any errors I said it fails in nougat. App crashes if you don't allow location permission. We don't need to give it permission we should be able to enter a zip code or what three words location at any point at any time. I might not care if there's a world Boreal is activity near me, I might want to know where is occurring at some other location, so I should not have to give the app permission to always know where my phone is. When I do allow location permission they have doesn't crash, but it just hangs on this weird white letters on green transparency covering the actual app and there's no way to close that whatever it is window.

★★☆☆☆ I didn't have a good experience with this app. Had it not been for my coworker I would have missed seeing the northern lights again. They were dancing in green and red viewable by camera and in greens seen with the naked eye right above my hotel room and not once did this app alert me. Thankfully my coworker took me up on my request to contact me no matter the time, so I could see them. This app definitely didn't work for me, but maybe it will for you.