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Weather (Privacy Friendly) on Windows Pc

Developed By: SECUSO Research Group

License: Free

Rating: 3,8/5 - 86 votes

Last Updated: December 24, 2023

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version 3.1.2
Size 14 MB
Release Date November 07, 24
Category Weather Apps

App Permissions:
Allows applications to open network sockets. [see more (2)]

What's New:
- Updated permission descriptions- Fixed potential crash for empty network-errors- Fixed crash on adding city without selecting from list [see more]

Description from Developer:
Privacy Friendly Weather lets you watch the weather for cities and locations you are interested in. The app has been developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute o... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download Weather (Privacy Friendly) and install on Windows PC. Weather (Privacy Friendly) is free Weather app, developed by SECUSO Research Group. Latest version of Weather (Privacy Friendly) is 3.1.2, was released on 2024-11-07 (updated on 2023-12-24). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 5,000. Overall rating of Weather (Privacy Friendly) is 3,8. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 86 users, 8 users had rated it 5*, 30 users had rated it 1*.

How to install Weather (Privacy Friendly) on Windows?

Instruction on how to install Weather (Privacy Friendly) on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Weather (Privacy Friendly) on Windows PC by using Android App Player such as BlueStacks, LDPlayer, Nox, KOPlayer, ...

Before you start, you will need to download the APK/XAPK installer file, you can find download button on top of this page. Save it to easy-to-find location.

[Note] You can also download older versions of this app on bottom of this page.

Below you will find a detailed step-by-step guide, but I want to give you a fast overview of how it works. All you need is an emulator that will emulate an Android device on your Windows PC and then you can install applications and use it - you see you're playing it on Android, but this runs not on a smartphone or tablet, it runs on a PC.

If this doesn't work on your PC, or you cannot install, comment here and we will help you!

  1. Install using BlueStacks
  2. Install using NoxPlayer

Step By Step Guide To Install Weather (Privacy Friendly) using BlueStacks

  1. Download and Install BlueStacks at: https://www.bluestacks.com. The installation procedure is quite simple. After successful installation, open the Bluestacks emulator. It may take some time to load the Bluestacks app initially. Once it is opened, you should be able to see the Home screen of Bluestacks.
  2. Open the APK/XAPK file: Double-click the APK/XAPK file to launch BlueStacks and install the application. If your APK/XAPK file doesn't automatically open BlueStacks, right-click on it and select Open with... Browse to the BlueStacks. You can also drag-and-drop the APK/XAPK file onto the BlueStacks home screen
  3. Once installed, click "Weather (Privacy Friendly)" icon on the home screen to start using, it'll work like a charm :D

[Note 1] For better performance and compatibility, choose BlueStacks 5 Nougat 64-bit read more

[Note 2] about Bluetooth: At the moment, support for Bluetooth is not available on BlueStacks. Hence, apps that require control of Bluetooth may not work on BlueStacks.

How to install Weather (Privacy Friendly) on Windows PC using NoxPlayer

  1. Download & Install NoxPlayer at: https://www.bignox.com. The installation is easy to carry out.
  2. Drag the APK/XAPK file to the NoxPlayer interface and drop it to install
  3. The installation process will take place quickly. After successful installation, you can find "Weather (Privacy Friendly)" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Download older versions

Other versions available: 3.1.2 , 3.1.1.

Download Weather (Privacy Friendly) 3.1.2 on Windows PC – 14 MB

Download Weather (Privacy Friendly) 3.1.1 on Windows PC – 13.6 MB

Privacy Friendly Weather lets you watch the weather for cities and locations you are interested in. The app has been developed by the research group SECUSO at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology. More info can be found on https://secuso.org/pfa

The weather includes current weather as well as a hourly and daily forecasts. The weather data includes details such as temperature, a short description of the current weather condition and humidity, wind and rain. A dark theme as well as 4 different home screen widgets are availble with current day or future day informations.
Furthermore, Privacy Friendly Weather provides a radius search. This makes it possible to find the locations around a given location which have the best weather conditions at the moment. The search space can be set by the user.
The unit of temperatures can be set to Celsius or Fahrenheit and the unit of distances to kilometres or miles. Multiple wind units are available also.

All weather data is retrieved from the OpenWeatherMap by using their API (http://openweathermap.com/api) which provides a free service.

1. Minimum permissions
Privacy Friendly Weather requires only the minimum amount of permissions, the INTERNET permission which is necessary to make HTTP requests to remote servers for retrieving weather data. The two other permissions for binding services and keeping the phone awake are needed for background data handling.

2. Radius Search
Find the locations around a given location which have the best weather conditions at the moment.

3. No advertisement
Other free apps display advertisement which might result in privacy violations, shorten the device's battery life or use mobile data.
- Updated permission descriptions
- Fixed potential crash for empty network-errors
- Fixed crash on adding city without selecting from list
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows using PowerManager WakeLocks to keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming.