# WindWidget

> WindWidget - for presenting data from vindsiden.no on your Android device..

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.vindsiden.windwidget](https://chrome-stats.com/d/com.vindsiden.windwidget)

## Overview

- **ID:** `com.vindsiden.windwidget`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Øyvind Bjørløw
- **Category:** WEATHER
- **Downloads:** 479
- **Last updated:** 2015-11-18
- **First published:** 2013-08-22
- **Publisher country:** NO
- **Data as of:** 2026-10-19
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vindsiden.windwidget)
- **Privacy policy:** [http://userdata.com/not/stored/sensitive/or/otherwise/still](http://userdata.com/not/stored/sensitive/or/otherwise/still)

## Description

WindWidget - for presenting data from vindsiden.no on your Android device..<br><br>Each widget lets you view the wind/weather at one location.<br><br>Usage: <br><br>To add a Widget on Samsung Galaxy S3:<br>Tap Apps -&gt; Widget -&gt; (Drag the WindWidget to your homescreen)<br><br>To add a Widge on Samsung Galaxy S2:<br>Tap the Menu Button -&gt; Add Widget -&gt; (Drag the WindWidget icon to your homescreen)<br><br>Then click the widget on your homescreen. Choose which station it should report weather measurements from on its config screen.<br><br>The update frequency and the start/end time for updates are shared settings for all WindWidgets on your device. <br><br>See the screenshots for an example layout on an S3 homescreen.<br><br>A wind arrow with accompanying text on a transparent background is encountered in a normal, no-error-encountered situation. Error conditions:<br>1 - The widgets with a &quot;?&quot; mark have received measurements from Windsiden.no, but are unable to interpret them in a meaningful way (the weather stations in the screenshot returned XML, but no measurements were found there). <br>2 - The widgets with a gray background met  a network/xml format error at their last attempted update. They still show you the last successfully fetched data, but the grey background indicates &quot;this is not up to date&quot;.

## Rankings

- #1,442,137 — Overall

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