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TL;DR
- The brand new Climate app from the upcoming Pixel 9 collection has leaked, making it obtainable for unofficial sideloading.
- You may set up the app (at your individual threat) on any Android 14 gadget.
- Leaks counsel that the app may quickly obtain options like notifications for climate forecast and precipitation, Climate maps, and AI Climate Summaries.
We’re very excited in regards to the Google Pixel 9‘s launch subsequent week and may’t wait to get our fingers on all the brand new stuff Google has in retailer. The Pixels have at all times been a moderately leaky affair, and we all know virtually every little thing in regards to the upcoming gadgets. If you wish to get the celebration began early, the brand new Climate app that’s anticipated to debut on the Pixel 9 collection is now obtainable for unofficially sideloading onto your Android gadget, permitting you to attempt it out earlier than Google formally publicizes it.
The upcoming Climate app is now obtainable on APKMirror (h/t Kamila Wojciechowska). You may set up the APK in your Android 14 gadget to get it operating. Since this isn’t the ultimate model of the climate app, you would face some crash points, for which you’d have to clear your cellphone’s cache.
Be aware that this Climate app was beforehand obtainable from throughout the Clock app, however now it’s its personal app that may be launched from the app drawer. Curiously, this app additionally doesn’t have climate widgets, that are current within the Google app as an alternative.
This Climate app is scheduled to reach as a preloaded app on the Pixel 9 collection and will probably be formally obtainable to older Pixels too in a while. With the sideloaded apk, you will get the app in your cellphone straight away, although it is best to brace your self for some potential UX points on non-Pixel smartphones.
My colleague, Rita, tried the app on her Pixel 8 Professional, and it really works. Listed here are some screenshots so that you can get pleasure from:
You should utilize the Climate app with out signing into your Google account, however signing in will allow you to sync saved areas throughout gadgets. Nonetheless, beforehand set areas aren’t getting migrated.
9to5Google dug into the code to identify that the app may quickly supply notifications for precipitation and climate forecasts. Additional, Dylan Roussel on X (previously referred to as Twitter) notes that the app may get some type of “Climate map” alongside “AI Climate Summaries.”
Have you ever tried out the brand new Climate app? Tell us your expertise within the feedback beneath!
