Google Pixel 9 has a new weather app, here’s what it looks like

Google is fairly well-known for constructing a number of apps to do nearly the identical factor — like its 5 totally different messaging apps, for instance. It looks as if its climate app is about to obtain the identical therapy. Due to a supply, we’ve realized that Google is making a brand new one to debut alongside the upcoming Pixel 9.

It’s price mentioning Google launched a whole redesign of its present climate part of the Google app final yr, which makes launching one more climate app so quickly much more stunning.

The brand new app can be part of the prevailing Pixel Climate app (com.google.android.apps.climate), which was beforehand solely used to supply climate data for the clock app. Whereas the app can be obtainable on the Pixel 9 first (in truth, it is going to be preloaded from the manufacturing facility), it’ll finally make its option to older Pixel telephones, too. We’ve bought our arms on a non-final model of the app, which clearly may not be precisely the identical as the ultimate construct, but it surely nonetheless provides us an excellent take a look at what Google is planning for its new climate app.

Minimalism over all the things

The very first thing I observed when opening the app is how minimally it’s designed — the background is an easy gradient, working from the highest to the underside of the display screen, altering its coloration to match the present climate situations. The largest aspect on the display screen is the present temperature textual content, written in daring font, with an icon representing the present climate situations as an alternative of the diploma image. One casualty of the minimalism of this design is the climate frog — it appears it simply didn’t slot in with the remainder of the theme.

Beneath the temperature are the acquainted playing cards offering all the data you’d count on from a climate app — hourly and 10-day forecasts, humidity, dawn and sundown, wind, AQI, visibility, UV index, and strain. The attention-grabbing new growth is that the playing cards (besides the hourly forecast) will be completely repositioned by holding them down and transferring them round.

Tapping on the 10-day forecast opens an analogous widget-based UI, albeit with fewer parts and non-adjustable playing cards.

The placement choice display screen is familiarly easy however locations a bit of extra emphasis on the present climate situations and the temperature than the previous design.

One attention-grabbing omission within the new app is the dearth of animations of any type (at the very least within the model we examined) — the present climate app has little animations within the card and backgrounds, as you possibly can see under.

It’s intriguing to see Google introduce a Pixel-exclusive climate app, particularly after launching the redesign of the older climate app not way back. What do you consider the redesign? Tell us within the feedback.