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Updated 09/09/2011

Develop a mobile weather client in Java for Android or Blackberry.

Detailed requirements:

• Retrieve and parse weather data from any source. Some possibilities are listed below but if you have a better one you can use that:
• Display a minimum of 3 days weather information (today and the next 2 days).
• Display a minimum of 1 location (whatever the user enters in the configuration screen).
• Use a settings/configuration screen (location, user configuration information such as the number of days to display, or the icon size/color set). Save the data in poersistent storage.
• Search the weather text for keywords (sunny, rain, thunderstorms) and display an appropriate icon.

Optional features you might want to add:

• Make the number of days of weather to dispay a configurable option.
• Provide several icon sizes and let the user pick the size/style they like.
• Allow the user to maintain a list of several locations for displaying the weather and provide an option for easily switching between them.
• Use the current GPS (GPS simulator) location to get the local weather.
• Provide a name look-up service so a user can enter something like "Baltimore MD" and you can map that to a location ID.
• Provide an option to display satellite maps.

Resources:

• Weather data sources
  • http://developer.yahoo.com/weather/
  • http://www.weather.com/services/xmloap.html
  • http://www.weather.gov/forecasts/xml/OGC_services/
  • http://www.worldweatheronline.com/free-weather-feed.aspx
  • http://m.wund.com/
  • http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/003201.html
• Weather icons
  • http://www.webresourcesdepot.com/free-weather-icons-collection/
  • http://www.nordicweather.net/index.php?sivu=90&ic=1&lang=en
  • http://weatherdoll.com/weather-icons.php
• Location lookup
  • http://www.census.gov/cgi-bin/gazetteer/
  • http://www.zipinfo.com/cgi-local/zipsrch.exe
• Parsing XML in J2ME
  • http://developer.sonyericsson.com/site/global/techsupport/tipstrickscode...
  • http://java.sun.com/javame/reference/apis/jsr172/
  • http://developers.sun.com/mobility/midp/articles/parsingxml/

Examples

Example of J2ME weather clients

• http://www.weatherbug.com/mobile/mobilejava/default.asp
• http://www.nokiasoftware.net/symbian-applications-os-9-1/6942-world-weat...
• http://www.getjar.com/mobile/27092/gweather/

What to turn in

• Follow the general lab guidelines.
• Turn in a ZIP file of your entire project.
• Tell me where you get your images if you uised any (files, sprites, etc).
• If you had difficulty implementing some features, describe the problems you had and leave in your non-functional code (its better to show that you tried to implement the requirements than to not show any evidence that you tried).