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i like the concept, i wanted a widget that would actively show warnings. but, it doesn't work that well. i will get a warning on another system, and then i could wait up to an hour before this thing shows that warning. if i do have something, such as an advisory, and it turns into a warning, it won't update itself. sometimes i have to go into the program to see if the warning is even there, and right now it is, but the widget still shows the expired warning. it doesn't prioritize the importance of the warning either. it does it by date order. so if you have the 3x1 widget, it shows the last message and not the main one. so like it could say - there is a slippery ice advisory, but hide the warning of a blizzard on the way. more so, it takes a lot of space on the desktop. there is no reason to take up that much space, the text at the top can be smaller. they can fit more warnings if the tabs were half the height. -- i'm bumping this to a 4 since the creator did write back, and it might be an issue with my phone. since it does work at least some of the time. i still think it should be a bit smaller looking.
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The lack of updating probably has to do with Marshmallow and newer killing background tasks. If you exempt it from battery monitoring it should work. I've been working on a version that does it the new way so it'll avoid that but I haven't gotten it working yet.
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Almost great app (very close). I am hoping for the update sometime soon. This does pretty much what I want. The background updates are still flaky for me. Multiple location would be nice. Storing the alerts locally would be nice for seeing last warnings without current network service. Thanks for the quick update due to the NWS change (faster than USPS package delivery).
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Settings consist only of manually setting your location. It did find the alerts in my area but I have no idea if or how it will notify me of future alerts. Uninstalled. Update: My bad for not seeing the part of the description about no notifications. Would be a 5star app if it did. A very simple/lightweight free notifier is needed. Thanks to the developer for their contribution!
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Justdave
February 26, 2021
Thanks for the honest review! It doesn't do notifications yet, that's still on the wish list. The main purpose is for the home screen widget.