NWS Weather Alerts Widget

What is it?

This is an Android home screen widget to display current weather alerts from the US National Weather Service.

You can choose a county or state within the US (or the entire US) and it will display a list of all of the current weather alerts for that area on the widget. If there's more than fits, the list scrolls, and you can tap on an alert to open the full text of the alert in your web browser. There is an accompanying app which can be used to configure what area you want and shows the raw feed data if you're really curious (though that part was mostly there for debugging, and might go away one of these days now that it all works)

Why?

I created this because I wanted a tablet on the wall in my kitchen to display weather alerts on the screen, and for all the plethora of weather apps out there, I couldn't find one that showed anything more than a (!) icon on their widgets for alerts, and you had to click through to find out what they were. Some of them would put the alerts into the notification bar, but that wasn't much better. So this one displays a list of the current alerts right on the widget, and that is the only purpose of the widget.

Download

Now available on the Google Play Store:

If you already installed it from the direct .apk file prior to version 1.0.3, you'll need to uninstall the existing version first before installing it from the Play Store. Newer versions are signed with the same key used in the Play Store.

Bug Reports / Feature Requests

If you like what you see but it's not quite what you want and you have ideas for features or you find any bugs, feel free to report them in the issue tracker.

Help Wanted

If you feel like helping out or adding cool new features, I welcome pull requests. If you want to help and don't have your own problems with it to solve, check the issue queue for bug reports and feature requests that haven't been started yet.