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Outlook: Sunny
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So I've been using this picture of Hester as my phone's backdrop for a while. Today I was fiddling about with Tasker and Locale and wondering if I could make my phone change its backdrop to hint at the day's weather; this one, obviously, is "sunny". I don't know what sort of weather I'd use the other image for - 'good weather to be indoors'?

I also did sketches for 'rainy', 'cold', and 'too fucking hot'. Dunno if I'll actually color them. I'm not sure the idea of changing the backdrop based on local weather is actually feasible - it'd be a teetering pile of Locale conditions, or a Small Matter Of Writing Java, and I reeeeally don't want to do either. I'd consider it if the source to the News & Weather widget was available, but that's not on the net.
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But the wonderful thing about Android (you lucky creature, you) is that you don't have to write Java if you don't want to. Since you seem to be keen on Python, I'll mention it explicitly as a possibility. :)

Jebus, I keep sending you links to programming resources. I hope it's not bothersome!

Oh, and about the idea itself: I think it's brilliant and I may steal it for my own use. I think for the forseeable future I'll be looking at muted greys and blues if I do—it has been raining on and off in Boston for two days, maybe more if I haven't been paying attention.

Your color palettes seem to be shifting brighter lately; must be a good sign. :D

I think it's a great idea if you can pull it off. I haven't the foggiest as to how you'd go about it, but maybe you can discover what was done with this site, by checking out the page code. All I know is that it pulls weather info from Yahoo.