KTVZ Local Alert Weather App

Here are the new features with this release!
-Dark mode
-Improved lapse speed and bar
-Past (2hrs) and real time as well as future radar (2hrs) combined in one product
-New stylized legends above the map

Update to the mapping background in the radar tile and page to give it a new modern look. Boundaries, roads, cities display on top of radar data to make it easier to view your location on the map.
New look to the current conditions and forecast tile to make it more modern looking and easier for users to read weather data. Changes include a white background, colored icons, and larger text to make data easier to read.
Updated Current Conditions/Forecast Page. Updates include:
-Page opens to the ‘Overview’ tab which gives current conditions, 3 hour hourly forecast, the 7 day daily forecast, and access to the radar page
-The 'Currents' tab will give additional information on humidity percent, cloud cover, visibility, dew point, barometric pressure, and sunrise/sunset times.
-The 'Hourly' tab will give detailed weather information for the next 24 hours on the forecasted weather condition, temperature, pop and wind speed and direction.
-The 'Daily' tab will show the 7-day forecast in a manner that is much more similar to on-air 7-day forecasts with a detailed forecast for the next 7 days/nights below.

Updates to Map Tile/Page
-Update to the mapping background to give it a new modern look
-Boundaries, roads, cities display on top of radar data to make it easier to view your location on the map

Updates to Current Conditions/Forecast Tile
-New look to the current conditions and forecast tile to make it more modern looking and easier for users to read weather data
-White background
-colored icons
-Text data is larger and easier to read

Updates to Current Conditions/Forecast Page
-Separated all aspects of existing page into tabs to make it easier on the user
-Page itself opens to the ‘Overview’ tab which gives current conditions, 3 hour hourly forecast, the 7 day daily forecast, and access to the radar page
-This will be all viewable with very few swipes by the user. The user can also easily swipe left to right through all saved locations and see this basic and most important weather information.
-The 'Currents' tab will give additional information on humidity percent, cloud cover, visibility, dew point, barometric pressure, and sunrise/sunset times.
-The 'Hourly' tab will give detailed weather information for the next 24 hours on the forecasted weather condition, temperature, pop and wind speed and direction.
-The 'Daily' tab will show the 7-day forecast in a manner that is much more similar to on-air 7-day forecasts. Below the actual 7-day forecast will be the detailed day/night forecast descriptions that we have in the existing app including the weather sentences. The icons again are colored on top of a white background making it easier to view.

Bug Fixes and other Enhancements

Bug fixes and improvements

-3 day forecast added to the currents tile
-Incorporated real time radar data for the radar tile
-Backend changes that have eliminated several bugs that have been noted in the app

- Fix for alerted locations not being set on map when accessing it via push or alert inbox
- Fix for issue where user would add location via map with push denied and the annotation would not remove itself on map
- Fix for hourly graph being maxed out at beginning if temperature range was large
- Fix for issue where current location alerts would be toggled on if user denied push notifications
- Fix for issue where user would not be taken to correct location on map when starting app from push
- Fix for issue where current conditions would not come in if user denied push notifications.
- Fix for stretched splash screens
- Fix for some videos not playing if they had pre-roll ads
- Firebase Analytics added

• Locations for forecast data/map data and Safety Net alerts are now all handled in a centralized location.
• The user’s selected locations are now consistent across forecasts and alerts, and don’t need to be managed independently.
• Safety Net alerts are now toggled on for the user’s location upon app install. New locations added also have Safety Net alerts automatically turned on.
• Users can now choose whether to receive alerts from each separate location.
• When a user clicks an alert notification, they are now taken to the map page showing the last viewed data product for that alert location.
• A new 7-day forecast includes a written forecast for both day and night time.

bug fixes and other improvements

New splash screens and graphics

- Completely redesigned interface
- New Product: 24 hour forecast precipitation now available
- Location specific weather alerts

- Updated app resources
- Bug fixes

- Updated graphics

- bug fixes

- Updated app resources
- Added support for 42 weather alert types
- Bug fixes

-updated resources

-updated splash screen graphics

-added 'Submit' page for user photo and video submissions
-bug fixes

-fixed issue with lightning layer display
-fixed issue for detail text display on daily page