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Weather and News Info Widget on Windows Pc

Developed By: fusionworks.eu

License: Free

Rating: 3,7/5 - 1.184 votes

Last Updated: April 16, 2024

Download on Windows PC

Compatible with Windows 10/11 PC & Laptop

App Details

Version 1.6.5
Size 9.6 MB
Release Date September 10, 14
Category Weather Apps

App Permissions:
Allows an application to collect battery statistics [see more (9)]

What's New:
Version 1.6.5:If updating please start the application to finish upgrade.Changes in this version:- User requests: 1. Choice between temperature and current... [see more]

Description from Developer:
The main purpose of this widget is to gather important and accurate information about battery state and weather. Additionally you can setup favorite news feeds, have visual warning... [read more]

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About this app

On this page you can download Weather and News Info Widget and install on Windows PC. Weather and News Info Widget is free Weather app, developed by fusionworks.eu. Latest version of Weather and News Info Widget is 1.6.5, was released on 2014-09-10 (updated on 2024-04-16). Estimated number of the downloads is more than 100,000. Overall rating of Weather and News Info Widget is 3,7. Generally most of the top apps on Android Store have rating of 4+. This app had been rated by 1,184 users, 200 users had rated it 5*, 570 users had rated it 1*.

How to install Weather and News Info Widget on Windows?

Instruction on how to install Weather and News Info Widget on Windows 10 Windows 11 PC & Laptop

In this post, I am going to show you how to install Weather and News Info Widget 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!

Step By Step Guide To Install Weather and News Info Widget 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 and News Info Widget" 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 and News Info Widget 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 and News Info Widget" on the home screen of NoxPlayer, just click to open it.

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Other versions available: 1.6.5.

Download Weather and News Info Widget 1.6.5 on Windows PC – 9.6 MB

The main purpose of this widget is to gather important and accurate information about battery state and weather. Additionally you can setup favorite news feeds, have visual warnings about incoming Calendar events and have information about current time zone in comparison to your home zone.

Information presented for each function:
Battery:
- Precise visual information of the charge level
- Charging/discharging and using AC or USB
- Temperature

Weather:
- Visual presentation of the current weather state
- Textual description of the current state
- Humidity
- Wind speed

Calendar:
- Current month and date
- Indication of the state of coming events(green - first event is due in the next 24 hours, yellow – an event is due in next 8 hours and read – an event starts in 2 hours or less.

News:
- Colored letters rss signify that news where updated since last reading

Tapping on the center panel will start Activity containing three tabs:

1. First (and default) tab is weather. As you can see from the image to the left it contains the following elements:
- Location weather data is gathered for
- Panel with current conditions and
- Links to five days weather forecast

Default is current data, to see panel with forecast for any of five given days just tap on its icon. To return to current conditions tap on the detailed data panel.

Second is News feeds:
It contains the list of all news from all feeds combined. If you want to see just one particular feed tap on the select button on the top of the list and choose the desired feed.

Last is Calendar. In this version Calendar tab shows:
- In the upper part of the tab - current day, date and year, week number and leap year status.
- List of incoming events.
While in this activity pressing on the Menu button on your android phone will pop the menu with two menu items:
- Settings: Described in detail bellow.
- Refresh:

1. Refresh menu item starts update for news feeds and weather. After you tap it a progress dialog will pop up showing the state of the update. If you press the “Back” button on your phone progress dialog will disappear, but update will continue in the background. When running in background there is no notification when finished, it’ll refresh news and weather data instantly.

2. Settings: Settings is another Activity containing four tabs as shown on the image above:

General tab - handles settings for:
- Home time zone – set your home time zone. Application will offer the time zone set for the device.
- News refresh interval - data will be updated automatically in chosen intervals or manually only when refresh menu item is chosen.
- Weather refresh interval - data will be updated automatically in chosen intervals or manually only when refresh menu item is chosen.
- The last item on the list is the information about last and next update occurrence.

Weather tab - handles settings for:
- Automatically determine location - when checked the program will try to determine your current location using available methods (network and/or gps data).
- Select location - if automatically determine location is checked here you will see the name of the selected location. Otherwise, you can tap on it and search for your location.
- Use metric system - if checked weather data will be presented using metric units of measure. Otherwise imperial units will be used.

News tab - lets you manage news feeds:
- Use cached data first - opens cached texts of the news items. For some feeds that's only a sentence or two, but for some it is the whole article, by using the cache you avoid downloading it twice. It is especially useful during poor data connection conditions.
- Below the cache setting is the feed management where you can add and remove feeds. You can add localized Google feeds or search for new feeds by term you are interested in or by URL of the feed you would like to follow.

Calendar tab allows you to choose which calendar(s) you want Fusion Info widget to use.
Version 1.6.5:

If updating please start the application to finish upgrade.

Changes in this version:

- User requests:
1. Choice between temperature and current conditions in notification bar. Notification
info in the notification list is the same.
2. Widgets now have adjustable transparency and color.

- Additional widgets.
- Complete graphical overhaul.
- Main application supports themes. We offer 4 in this release. More to follow.
- Moon phases.
- Bug fixes.
Allows an application to collect battery statistics
Allows applications to open network sockets.
Allows an app to access precise location.
Allows an app to access approximate location.
Allows an application to read the user's calendar data.
Allows applications to access information about networks.
Allows an app to create windows using the type TYPE_APPLICATION_OVERLAY, shown on top of all other apps.
This constant was deprecated in API level 21. No longer enforced.
Allows applications to disable the keyguard if it is not secure.