@ems_hodge Hi Emily, First of all, it's another weather app, I know. 90% of people still use stock weather apps. We know that forecasts can't be accurate when predicting past the next 2-3 days, so we built Aerium around that. For the past year we've been hard at work to improve the accuracy of our system by combining hyper-local weather data from different sources. We call that ExtremeAccuracy. Other than that, our RainAlert feature was improved by multiple times because we now rely on a better server infrastructure to deliver the notifications. I'll be here all day if you guys have any questions or feedback *please do have feedback*. Thanks, Raul.

@hthrjns That message is only for the first time you use the app. We did, but the message turned out to be way better and less intrusive.

@ianissoawesome We just saw that too - want to be upfront and say that we're not doing anything witht that permission and it must be a bug or human error. Iancu is the co-founder and the Android developer of Aerium, so I'll let him deal with the error. @iancuio, can you please explain what happens there? Nonetheless, we will be updating the Android app ASAP to get that permission dialogue out of there.

@ianissoawesome Hello! Aerium Android DEV here. We are not making uses of, gathering or using anything related to phone calls or contacts in your phone. We are getting the phone IMEI for AUTH purposes on our backend and as a fellow Android Developer you know that requesting the IMEI is grouped under "READ_PHONE_STATE" permission group. That displays as a requirement to access to your contact list, which I totally agree it's absolutely "brutal" and invasive at a first glance. Very good point about telling the user about that permission, thanks you for the suggestion.

@iancuio Oh, okay, thanks for the explanation! it really got me worried at first. Have you thought about using UUID or Settings.Secure.ANDROID_ID? It might be better because it doesn't require permission and you can often find chinese budget phones using the same IMEI which may cause you a problem.

@ianissoawesome Yeah, I thought of that. But that changes upon factory reset :( While factory resets might not be that common, the IMEI seemed to be the most consistent option. We will change that in the next version, to the logged in Google Play ID/email. At the moment I'm adding the explanation screen.

@ianissoawesome Added a new version with explained permissions. Tell us what you think :)

@markoprljic You can now try out the Pro features for 3 days, if you search for WeatherKit. :)

I agree with you 100%. Having to subscribe to something sucks, most of the time. Unfortunately for us, there are ongoing infrastructure costs that we need to consider. We really appreciate your comment and let me know on Twitter if you need a promo code to try out Aerium Pro.

@sebastiangodel Thank you Sebastian! :)