Barometer Prime
For such a history to be useful, the app autonomously takes measurements once in a while. In order not to drain your battery, you have lots of configuration options to fine-tune the app's behaviour and to find an ideal trade-off between measurement resolution and battery consumption.
Therefore, this app is ideally suited not only for hobby meteorologists, but also for alpinists, mountaineers, skydivers, glider pilots, etc.
If you have any questions, experience any bugs or have feature requests, don't hesitate to get in contact and visit the homepage at http://barometer.hyfy.de
Note: you actually need a pressure sensor (barometer) in your device (as e.g. in the Nexus Prime, Galaxy Nexus)!
Features include:
- Open Source (GPL v3)
- Up-to-date atmospheric pressure information
- Estimation of altitude
- Absolute and normalized pressure display.
- History of past measurements
- Homescreen widgets
- Support for different units, e.g. mbar, bar, hPa, kPa, Pa, inHg, mmHg, torr, psi, at, atm
- Reference settings for altitude estimations (in meter, foot, degree celsius and fahrenheit)
- Statusbar notifications
- Multitouch chart to zoom and scroll within your measurement history
- Time
- and Size-based Window operators for displaying measurements
- Selective clearance of history
- Battery Guard adapting measurement intervals upon low battery state
- Lots of configuration options
- Configuration profiles to ease the use
- Detailed technical information about built-in pressure sensor(s)
- Measurement and behaviour statistics
Configuration options include:
- Set the measurement interval
- Select your favorite pressure and altitude units
- Set the persistence interval
- Smooth measurements by calculating averages
- Restrict size of history
- Compact history using different modes
- Turn on/off sensor service and statusbar notifications
- Auto-start barometer service upon device boot
- Enable/disable multitouch gestures
- Foreground-service option to prevent being killed upon low memory
- Acquire wake-locks to not miss a measurement due to Android's power management policies
- Set the update rate for the history chart
- Use size
- or time-based sliding windows to only view the most current measurements
- Auto-scale history chart or specify upper and lower boundaries
- Adapt the visual appearance of the history chart to your needs (fonts, grid lines, date format, etc.)
This app respects your privacy ! No personal data is given to third parties. This app is open source and licenced under the GPL v3.
Permissions are:
- RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED: used to auto-start the barometer service taking measurements. Can be turned off !
- WAKE_LOCK: used for measurement rates below 0.1 Hz to keep the CPU running in order not to miss a measurement. Can be turned off !
- WRITE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE: required for the option to export the measurement history as a file.
Future permission requirements will include:
- GPS for automatically setting the reference altitude and for retrieving current pressure values from webservices if you do not have a pressure sensor
- Internet in order to retrieve current pressure values from webservices if you do not have a pressure sensor
Category : Weather
Reviews (22)
This used to be excellent because I was able to easily see day by day the barometer go up and down in relation to my sinus headaches. Although it still seems to read okay, it is very difficult to know now because it goes mostly by month instead of my day. Okay for general information, but pointless for my own need. Also, there's no way for me to go to the settings anymore.
Says no pressure sensor! What phones have one?
Solid app .. great value but still needs work. The display is pretty and the barometer works well. However, I used Hg and on the graph the weather clouds arent quite in the right place. The numbers on the graph really need decimals (29.9, etc). Also, the history graph can look like a straight line (it needs to be more zoomable.). But app is useful and a great start.
The widget doesn't sync with the app after update. Displays different information.
Complex but very functional.
The review earlier that stated this might be the best weather app out there was Wrong, it is the best out there congratulations on a great app my only issue with this beta is when I open app it doesn't work until I change orientation? Oh and is there a reset to help correct any mistakes made on settings as there are so many. Please note people I checked this app with the Met office UK and 1 the sensor on Galaxy note is spot on and 2 this app corresponds to Met office stats 100%. So big thumbs up from me....
Awesome App keep up the great work. Pls add a "Dedicated off" button that turns the app off totally i.e. I does not run in the background. I use the app mainly for fishing and will run it for 2-3 before an outing, and but would like to turn it off when I don't want it. Thanks again it's an awesome App.
This app is designed to acknowledge a demanding user's need to utilize the full capacity of their phone's sensor and get real feedback of what they wand to know anagrams what actually a barometer is used for.
This its potentially the best barometer app in the market not just in terms of functionality but particularly in design. This is still in beta but give it a go. I have tried most of the others and this one is streets ahead. A good app like this means you don't need a weather app on your phone. It can even work out your altitude. Highly recommended.
The latest version fixes the last few bugs I had. Multi-touch graph works great. I've been sampling at 10min & not noticed any battery drain. My thanks to the developer
If you've got a good smart head, this app is amazing. Without some knowledge of pressure, it's pretty useless.
Still needs some work,but it has a lot of potential.Love the notification area info. Keep up the good work. 5stars in advance. Oh and it's free!
Tried a few apps (including paid versions), but this one is IMHO the best.
Slightly buggy but overall the most useful barometer app.
With customizable plots, controls over how much data to save and average, reference altitude input, and easy zooming, this app does everything a good barometer app should. Developer always takes feedback. Doesn't get much better than this!
It looks like a really cool app... unfortunately my Warp does not have a pressure sensor. A good idea would be to integrate into a weather service to get secondary readings so more people could use this app.
Yes it is buggy nothing useful here
Couldn't make it change pages.
Needs offset to adjust sensor to actual .
Accurate app love it
Can't get to settings and change to inHg on Galaxy S7
I like this a lot Samsung Galaxy s10 plus working ok