Yup. I needed a new tablet but the main reason I picked up the pixel tablet when I did was because I knew it had the weather frog screensaver. And it's only exclusive to the tablet, not the phones. So the fact that I chunked out $499 to have a weather frog screensaver should let Google know that I take that seriously. The tablet is great and all but when I found out about the frog it was a no-brainer LOL
@android-user I have that. It used to give the option to install or "add to home screen" with the 3 dot drop-down menu from the Google search page. I could have sworn that option had gone away in the last week or so. And then it appeared again. Then again, that could just be me misremembering -- always a possibility 😉
I was going to say that they forgot to add the most important feature, the frog. They should at least give us a toggle to add the frog back. I know it's work but a big portion of the community wants the 🐸.
🎉 The frog gave the app a more friendly touch, but I am an occasional user who checks the weather every so often and never more than for a moment on the main screen through a widget. But the Google app has a more fun and friendly tone for the end user. ❤
I realy like the design of the app but it just seems insanely unpolished. The app doesnt use proper fullscreen, there are almost no animations (not even just a fade animation) and it sometimes just randomly crashes. Also the animation of opening it via a widget is buggy😢
I love the weather app and the podcast. I listen to every new episode. Thanks for a great video about the weather app. I don't see the pollen tracker in the App here in Germany. It should be available here according to the podcast.
Lol, yeah. Totally agree! I miss froggy! Also, I hate how they keep removing the weather from the gmaps app. Unless there is a setting to keep it active. If so, someone please LMK.
The app alone is GREAT, the work has been done beautifully, but it broke widget animations for some reason, since system widgets are not linked directly to the app (that itself does not have a widget menu). Fixing this issue and reinstating the animations for opening and closing the app from the widgets would make it a 10/10. Great vid 🏆
Current design is cleaner, but cleaner doesn't always mean better and Google there are certainly ways to bring froggy back. If you could train your model to give predictive weather forecasts, you can use Gemini to generate a froggy image to match it in a widget for those that want it.
Would love the app to play a short rain sound when it's about to rain. Perhaps play a thunder sound for a storm. That would both be fun and informative. As a screen reader user I never saw Froggy so I want tthem to bring him back and have him croak or something when you are looking at the weather. Also why not have him as a toggle? That way the boaring people who don't want him can toggle him off and the rest of us can have him on.
Being from the UK, I Mainly the Met Office app to show me what the weather is going to be like as I feel that their app is a lot more accurate and reliable. But I am interested to see what does with their weather app and where it goes from here.
I don't really understand why the weather map thing isn't showing up in some towns, but if you go to a city you can wander to said town on the map and see the weather map
I live near the border and when I cross into the different country the map appears and it disappears when I come back to my home country. Wonder if it just Google doing weird server-side stuff or it's something to do with different meteorological services of countries
Google removing the minutecast chance of rain feature that you can get from the Google Weather page is a big let down. Lets me know the severity of rain and any breaks in the rain through the hour. I actually have a shortcut for the old Google weather app right underneath the Pixel weather widget for more information. Rather have that take up space than the AI generative paragraph for weather outlook.
Andy Rubin would be proud of the Pixel progression. It's become a true iPhone competitor. I just hope they learn from Fairphone and make it more repairable.
All of the new weather App's features are not available in all countries including mine. Classic Google. I hope you guys addressed this issue seriously. Seeing features that are only specific to the USA and some other countries makes me actually hate Google. Edit: Other thing that I currently dislike about the weather app is that now it requires two back swipes to come out of the app, unlike the old app which required only one back swipe.
Mine doesn't play the sound of rain when I click the icon. All it does is stop the rain animation. I also cannot scrub through the precipitation timeline.
For me, the most important thing in a weather app is the data set. And Google disappoints a lot. The weather data shown is never accurate. At least here in Germany. So I always have to use a third party app to get correct weather information.
I'm having trouble getting the widget you showed at 4:27 to show up exaclty as yours does. It looks like that on the widget preview, but when I drag it onto my home screen it becomes a tiny widget with just the temperature number, no hourly forecast. No matter how I resize it, it stays small. Anyone have an idea?
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One big problem! the phone LOCATION needs to be ON, otherwise the widget doesn't update! It's crazy since most people have at least a location already added to the app!
This update on the weather app is very cool i use it daily on my Google pixel 6 in my country the republic of Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 it's very accurate
i got the new weather app update for my phone but its terrible. half of the things dont show anything (like the weather map) and even though i selected the app to show the units in the region im in (Greece) it only change the F to C but still shows wind in mph and precipitation in inches, visibility in miles and pressure in inHg. also i am getting rainfall and wind warnings and it hasnt rained or it isnt windy where i live.. on other places on the island it has.. but it seems like it just gets a general whats going on on the island and if somewhere, even though its far is raining... and here is sunny... it will show that its sunny in in the forecast but right above it it will show a warning... its unfortunate that it feels like google has started just updating and adding onto android and the apps for the US and not for the rest of the world.. so for now, i have had to install another weather app... its too bad because i used to always use only the google app.... 😒
Nice overview. App is quite similar to many other weather apps. To date most apps still don't cater satisfactorilly to my weather info needs. Often still the apps still don't predict the weather well enough and there have been days where the waether app did not predict the correctweather. Whatbwe truly need still are more accurate to the hour and preferably to the minute weather prediction modela to.adequately predict precipitation in duration, start, end and imtensity. What I see is that there is likely a lack of sharing global.data between reginal and local data info. Would be nice to see or get insght and alao see teal time how data sets are combined to improve global, regional and local weather more acurately. I agree we need far bigger variety of weather widgets large and small, static and fully animated.
The weather App is amazing. I wish they also name a finance app for Pixel devices just like Apple's Finance App. Going through Google finance isn't very helpful.
I didn't know about the frog and I don't care enough to be back, the frog should just be an Easter Egg in my opinion. Just because a vocal minority wants it doesn't mean it should be pushed to the mass market.
I actually find it way worse than the previous app, there is too many scrolling and taps just to see a simple information. Like the 10-day forecast, old app a little scroll down would show every info of the next 10 days. On the new one, you have to scroll down, then scroll sideways if you want to see the next 5 days days, and then sideways again if you want to go back to normal.
The Pixel 8 Pro has Gemini Nano. There is no reason it should not be able to run the AI Summary thing just fine apart from Google software locking features for no reason.
For the new app, yeah. Luckily if you do a Google search for weather, tap on the three dots and tap on "add to home screen" then you can get him back that way.
i just cant get on board with it. the radar is just too low resolution. it just vaguely blotches the rain on the radar all over the general area making it not very accurate. if they could fix that it would be great but as of now its a deal breaker.
@@SmitePlayz1 That's not the point. Yes, AI (LLM) just summarizes and if we look at these summaries, we can see that there is nothing in these summaries that requires the use of AI (LLM). This could be done by simple formatting or/and just displaying the main indicators that are currently different from normal. But instead AI (LLM) is used, which is different in that it is hallucinating, and not even good: 1. Hallucinating. And this is the worst, because LLM hallucinations are not always complete nonsense, sometimes they are very convincing nonsense. 2. It's not even good. You can even just look at the video (well at least in this video it didn't hallucinate, maybe), it takes random facts, some for today today, and then a random fact for tomorrow and then again for today. And even after that I wasn't sure it was bad (when it wasn't hallucinating), even though what I saw looked bad. But after reading some reviews about it I found that it's not just my opinion, for example one of the reviews from google play: “... The AI summary: not once was wind ever mentioned; In the UK, where weather can be very variable over a day & between localities, it is usually useless; it cannot be moved, so is a waste of space. ...”
We need a weather frog theme!!!!
Yup. I needed a new tablet but the main reason I picked up the pixel tablet when I did was because I knew it had the weather frog screensaver. And it's only exclusive to the tablet, not the phones. So the fact that I chunked out $499 to have a weather frog screensaver should let Google know that I take that seriously. The tablet is great and all but when I found out about the frog it was a no-brainer LOL
💀@@Matt-Are-Gee
No frog, no dice. I will continue searching through Google for my weather to see the frog and see what he's up to
You can create a shortcut for the home screen! :D
@android-user I have that. It used to give the option to install or "add to home screen" with the 3 dot drop-down menu from the Google search page. I could have sworn that option had gone away in the last week or so. And then it appeared again. Then again, that could just be me misremembering -- always a possibility 😉
Absolutely 🎉💯
Absolutely agreed. They have to bring it back somehow.
You can uninstall updates and disable the Pixel Weather app. So Froggy will be where it should be - at a glance
The Pixel Weather app is so good that I don't miss Froggy, though I wish that Google would at least bring it back as a live wallpaper).
@imSterling or as a widget.
@@Matt-Are-Gee Love that wallpaper/widget idea, hope Google is listening 👀
I still use my Google Home for weather because #Froggy still lives there 😢
The new app may look slick and modern but the old one felt soulful and organic, checking up on the frog is one of my hourly rituals!
Hope you all enjoyed =)
I do. Thanks 👍🏻
@@jordanintheknow The rain sound Easter egg was new to me. Nice!!
I was going to say that they forgot to add the most important feature, the frog. They should at least give us a toggle to add the frog back. I know it's work but a big portion of the community wants the 🐸.
Love the haptic feedback when it's raining or if there's a storm.
Doesn't work on the Pixel 9. They need to update it ASAP so it can have that haptic feedback
I miss froggy so much. I used to check the weather just to see what he was up to. I hope they bring them back
search weather google and add a shortcut to homescreen and youll have a weather app with froggy that looks almost as good
🎉 The frog gave the app a more friendly touch, but I am an occasional user who checks the weather every so often and never more than for a moment on the main screen through a widget. But the Google app has a more fun and friendly tone for the end user. ❤
can't change the wind speed to kmh and it's locked to freedom units
It's tied to the system language. I'm in Canada and it changed to Km/h after changing my system language to Canadian English.
@@GibsonSGJKL did it also change the visibility to km and pressure to mbar*?
@@ficopoki164 it did
its in Beaufort here in the netherlands en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort_scale
I realy like the design of the app but it just seems insanely unpolished. The app doesnt use proper fullscreen, there are almost no animations (not even just a fade animation) and it sometimes just randomly crashes. Also the animation of opening it via a widget is buggy😢
Funny that you spelled "proper" improperly!
@zunkman1 yup, not a native speaker. Thanks for mentioning
And the bottom navigation bar is no longer transparent after the latest update. Typical google 😢
I love the weather app and the podcast. I listen to every new episode.
Thanks for a great video about the weather app. I don't see the pollen tracker in the App here in Germany. It should be available here according to the podcast.
Lol, yeah. Totally agree! I miss froggy!
Also, I hate how they keep removing the weather from the gmaps app. Unless there is a setting to keep it active. If so, someone please LMK.
is it available for other android devices?
The app alone is GREAT, the work has been done beautifully, but it broke widget animations for some reason, since system widgets are not linked directly to the app (that itself does not have a widget menu). Fixing this issue and reinstating the animations for opening and closing the app from the widgets would make it a 10/10.
Great vid 🏆
Current design is cleaner, but cleaner doesn't always mean better and Google there are certainly ways to bring froggy back. If you could train your model to give predictive weather forecasts, you can use Gemini to generate a froggy image to match it in a widget for those that want it.
Kermit says, "Yo!!! Where's the frog?"
The live radar map is dope! Love it. Waiting on polen data for Spain.
GIVE US BACK THE FROG IT WAS THE BEST THING ABOUT THE APP! WHO CHOSE TO GET RID OF IT?!
📠
Would love the app to play a short rain sound when it's about to rain. Perhaps play a thunder sound for a storm. That would both be fun and informative. As a screen reader user I never saw Froggy so I want tthem to bring him back and have him croak or something when you are looking at the weather. Also why not have him as a toggle? That way the boaring people who don't want him can toggle him off and the rest of us can have him on.
Being from the UK, I Mainly the Met Office app to show me what the weather is going to be like as I feel that their app is a lot more accurate and reliable. But I am interested to see what does with their weather app and where it goes from here.
I don't really understand why the weather map thing isn't showing up in some towns, but if you go to a city you can wander to said town on the map and see the weather map
I live near the border and when I cross into the different country the map appears and it disappears when I come back to my home country. Wonder if it just Google doing weird server-side stuff or it's something to do with different meteorological services of countries
@kubilius11 For me it's the same country, but with different size cities Edit: Nope, they fixed my problem :)
If you miss froggy try weather master 🐸
just search weather google and add a shortcut to homescreen and youll have a weather app with froggy that looks almost as good
Google removing the minutecast chance of rain feature that you can get from the Google Weather page is a big let down. Lets me know the severity of rain and any breaks in the rain through the hour. I actually have a shortcut for the old Google weather app right underneath the Pixel weather widget for more information. Rather have that take up space than the AI generative paragraph for weather outlook.
Andy Rubin would be proud of the Pixel progression. It's become a true iPhone competitor. I just hope they learn from Fairphone and make it more repairable.
Weather frog. I uninstalled and turned off auto update for the weather app.
#justiceforfroggy
hate that i cant change units to km/h and mbar
Youth see weather rather than going back out and back in to see weather in multiple cities in your list
All of the new weather App's features are not available in all countries including mine. Classic Google. I hope you guys addressed this issue seriously. Seeing features that are only specific to the USA and some other countries makes me actually hate Google.
Edit: Other thing that I currently dislike about the weather app is that now it requires two back swipes to come out of the app, unlike the old app which required only one back swipe.
Mine doesn't play the sound of rain when I click the icon. All it does is stop the rain animation. I also cannot scrub through the precipitation timeline.
I changed my font size so the widgets are all huge. You should be able to customize the size of the internal "widget" sizes.
Hope this comes to the app store for everyone
I love the app, and I'm happy with all the information that it provides. Even if I don't use it, at least it's there. I might need it one day
For some reason, the weather map is not available
For me, the most important thing in a weather app is the data set. And Google disappoints a lot. The weather data shown is never accurate. At least here in Germany. So I always have to use a third party app to get correct weather information.
The weather app needs an indicator as to whether the barometric pressure is Rising or Falling. This has a MAJOR impact on future weather, so show us!
I like it except for the times when it is pouring down rain and the radar shows no rain. I open my other weather apps and their radars shows the rain.
I'm having trouble getting the widget you showed at 4:27 to show up exaclty as yours does. It looks like that on the widget preview, but when I drag it onto my home screen it becomes a tiny widget with just the temperature number, no hourly forecast. No matter how I resize it, it stays small. Anyone have an idea?
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For Pixel 9A Should I wait or go to buy pixel 8A ?
Bring back froggy!!!!!
🐸
I have been a pixel user for years now and the new weather app is amazing. Also, froggy was cringe, we don't want that back! Lol
One big problem! the phone LOCATION needs to be ON, otherwise the widget doesn't update! It's crazy since most people have at least a location already added to the app!
I don't wanna have my location ON!
This update on the weather app is very cool i use it daily on my Google pixel 6 in my country the republic of Trinidad and Tobago 🇹🇹 it's very accurate
i got the new weather app update for my phone but its terrible. half of the things dont show anything (like the weather map) and even though i selected the app to show the units in the region im in (Greece) it only change the F to C but still shows wind in mph and precipitation in inches, visibility in miles and pressure in inHg. also i am getting rainfall and wind warnings and it hasnt rained or it isnt windy where i live.. on other places on the island it has.. but it seems like it just gets a general whats going on on the island and if somewhere, even though its far is raining... and here is sunny... it will show that its sunny in in the forecast but right above it it will show a warning... its unfortunate that it feels like google has started just updating and adding onto android and the apps for the US and not for the rest of the world.. so for now, i have had to install another weather app... its too bad because i used to always use only the google app.... 😒
I don't have the vibration/haptic for the rain thing or stuff, I even checked settings of the app and it's not there
Nice overview. App is quite similar to many other weather apps. To date most apps still don't cater satisfactorilly to my weather info needs. Often still the apps still don't predict the weather well enough and there have been days where the waether app did not predict the correctweather. Whatbwe truly need still are more accurate to the hour and preferably to the minute weather prediction modela to.adequately predict precipitation in duration, start, end and imtensity. What I see is that there is likely a lack of sharing global.data between reginal and local data info. Would be nice to see or get insght and alao see teal time how data sets are combined to improve global, regional and local weather more acurately.
I agree we need far bigger variety of weather widgets large and small, static and fully animated.
The weather App is amazing. I wish they also name a finance app for Pixel devices just like Apple's Finance App. Going through Google finance isn't very helpful.
I still don't have the ai weather report and the weather map
Any idea why pollen data is isolated to just a few areas?
Definitely loving the new app it's very convenient
Shame the rainfall radar isn't very accurate where I live.
I didn't know about the frog and I don't care enough to be back, the frog should just be an Easter Egg in my opinion. Just because a vocal minority wants it doesn't mean it should be pushed to the mass market.
wished they allowed me to save a location
You guys have sunset at 5pm? What?😮
How do you get the weather cards to be side by side? 7pro only allows me to have them in a single line.
I think you just have to swipe to see the other cards.
I actually find it way worse than the previous app, there is too many scrolling and taps just to see a simple information.
Like the 10-day forecast, old app a little scroll down would show every info of the next 10 days.
On the new one, you have to scroll down, then scroll sideways if you want to see the next 5 days days, and then sideways again if you want to go back to normal.
No rainfall radar for me. I'm assuming it's not enabled in Australia. :(
I'm happy they changed winds speeds to mph.
it depends on system language
Is AI weather report available in Pixel 8 Pro?
They should push it to home devices.
this could have been a short
That's a No to the frog
The Pixel 8 Pro has Gemini Nano. There is no reason it should not be able to run the AI Summary thing just fine apart from Google software locking features for no reason.
in 2024 we are happy that google gives as a weather app..
Google had a golden opportunity to make their weather app unique, chose boredom.😔
Did they kill the weather frog?
For the new app, yeah. Luckily if you do a Google search for weather, tap on the three dots and tap on "add to home screen" then you can get him back that way.
Where's the goddamn frog 🐸😢 I'd rather add a shortcut from the weather search.
Why i don't have the radar map on mine?
whats dumb is that you cant delete any of the locations you picked...
It shows me in the imperial system even though i have Celsius set in settings.
Here's what awesome about it and makes it smoke apples weather app, radar!
Instantly disabled it. Looks bland asf + no frog.
just search weather google and add a shortcut to homescreen and youll have a weather app with froggy that looks almost as good
I want it for my Galaxy.
When exactly are users expecting to see this? I have the pixel 7 and don't see half of that in the weather app.. no radar.. no haptics...no ai...
I prefer iOS weather coz effects and animations more natural
I am not seeing the weather map on pixel 8 and in Jamaica
i just cant get on board with it. the radar is just too low resolution. it just vaguely blotches the rain on the radar all over the general area making it not very accurate. if they could fix that it would be great but as of now its a deal breaker.
Rain radars are never very accurate.
AI wrote nothing super special that can't be programmed without AI. While AI can also hallucinate.
do you know what ai means? its just summarizing weather data. enlighten me on how and why to do it without ai.
@@SmitePlayz1
That's not the point.
Yes, AI (LLM) just summarizes and if we look at these summaries, we can see that there is nothing in these summaries that requires the use of AI (LLM).
This could be done by simple formatting or/and just displaying the main indicators that are currently different from normal.
But instead AI (LLM) is used, which is different in that it is hallucinating, and not even good:
1. Hallucinating.
And this is the worst, because LLM hallucinations are not always complete nonsense, sometimes they are very convincing nonsense.
2. It's not even good.
You can even just look at the video (well at least in this video it didn't hallucinate, maybe), it takes random facts, some for today today, and then a random fact for tomorrow and then again for today. And even after that I wasn't sure it was bad (when it wasn't hallucinating), even though what I saw looked bad. But after reading some reviews about it I found that it's not just my opinion, for example one of the reviews from google play:
“... The AI summary: not once was wind ever mentioned; In the UK, where weather can be very variable over a day & between localities, it is usually useless; it cannot be moved, so is a waste of space. ...”
Units are tied to phone region. Pass. Cannot be in region US and use metric units.
But is it better than dark sky?
The app looks great and I'm glad the frog is gone. I'm not 10 years old.
Better to use something else in Australia missing weather rader.
I don't miss froggy. It's time to move on.
I just look outside
Pixel 7a user here, my weather app doesn't open..
Looks like someone on the Google team is an iOS fan 🤣
Frogyyyyyy😢
Not even close... This app is actually worse than the old web link they called Weather
Sunrise and Sunset is important to me.
Kenya????
where in Kenya tho
Where do you live that still rains 😅
Weekend in 144p 😭😂
I don't have air quality..
HATE the stupid cartoony frog. So glad he's gone
Nope. Not available on pixel 8 pro in UK.
There seems to be no way to change wind speed from mph to kts or meters per second. Sadly useless for me.
I dont like that its not attatched to the time and date on stock wdiget