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Jul 28, 2015 09:42 GMT  ·  By

The Ubuntu Touch platform might not have a lot of apps, but it's making up by having a handy framework that can be used for webapps. In this case, it's about a webapp for the famous wunderground.com weather service.

One of the core apps that's been around almost from the beginning of the Ubuntu Touch project is the Weather, and it's doing a fairly good job, but it's neither the best nor with the most features. When we're talking about weather apps, we already know that there are some heavy hitters out there, like AccuWeather or Wunderground, but those services don't have Ubuntu native apps.

To be fair, the Ubuntu Store has plenty of apps for various weather services, but the majority are webapps. There's nothing wrong with that, especially for a young platform like Ubuntu Touch. Now, a developer has managed to build a webapp for one of the most famous weather services, Wunderground.

Why should you care about Wunderground?

Wunderground is one of the best weather services around, not just because it provides relatively accurate data, but for the rest of functions, like radar maps and real time satellite imagining.

"I packaged the wunderground.com site as a webapp using +Oliver Grawert webapp framework. The webapp is a bit slow on a Nexus 4 but hopefully operates nicely on some of the other devices. Features that I find very useful are the weather graph and the radar map. The radar map is a bit lacking via this webapp, but it's decent," wrote Victor Thompson on Google+.

Even if it's just a webapp, it looks very much like a native app. Users will notice the performance drop, which indicates the fact that it's not a native solution, but that will happen either way when Ubuntu Touch will be famous enough.

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