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Android

Posted by alainstudio
alainstudio
4,493 Points

I'm working on Android Stormy Weather App, and I wanted to use the metric units for degrees. Could you help me.

Weather App converting to celcius degrees.

2 Answers

Stephen Bone
Stephen Bone
12,359 Points

OK! Ignoring my first answer how about if you update your forecastUrl string to read as below:

I haven't worked through the Android Lists and Adapters course yet so I don't know if anything else has changed :)

String forecastUrl = "https://api.forecast.io/forecast/" + apiKey + "/" + latitude + "," + longitude + "?units=si";

Hope it helps!

Stephen

alainstudio
alainstudio
4,493 Points

You got it. Now we're talking. Thanks for your help.

Stephen Bone
Stephen Bone
12,359 Points

No worries glad it helped!

Stephen Bone
Stephen Bone
12,359 Points
Stephen Bone
Stephen Bone
12,359 Points

Hi alainstudio

You could update your getTemperature() method in the CurrentWeather class so it looks like below:

Basically just searched on Google for a method of converting Fahrenheit to Celsius and dropped it in.

public int getTemperature() {
        return (int)Math.round((mTemperature-32) * 5 / 9);
    }

Hope it helps!

Stephen

alainstudio
alainstudio
4,493 Points

Hi Stephen, Thanks for your help. That works for the main tempuature but not for the 7 days. I notice on the Forecast.io the units in us or si (metric). Can we change this in the code?