weather-app

The GUI of the weather app was made with JavaFX 8. The application utilizes the OpenWeatherAPI to retrieve weather data for the requested locations and an SQLite database is used to store relevant user/location information.

Features

• users can search for a location of their choice; upon a successful search, two results are shown:
  1. current weather data for the requested location (more in detail: current, max, min, feels like temperature, humidity, wind speed, weather status, sunrise, sunset, etc.)
  2. the 5 day forecast for the requested location (less details: day, temperature, weather status and a weather icon)
• can switch between metric and imperial measurements
• users can choose to save locations to a list and delete locations from the list
• users will have their previous settings stored; the list of saved locations will remain after closing the application
• users can set a favourite location - which will be displayed on application launch

Installation and Configuration

Initial Setup

• clone the repo
• install JavaFX 8
• install Java SDK 11
• install Eclipse/IntelliJ

Note: GSON and SQLite .jars are already included within the repo, but newer versions may need to be installed as time goes on.

Configuring the Application

Once all of the above are installed, using Eclipse or IntelliJ, right click on the cloned project repo and select the following in order: Build Path --> Configure Build Path --> Libraries --> "Add External JARs..", at this point you'll need to navigate to wherever your JavaFX 8 folder is and add all the jars. The same applies with Google's GSON .jar and the SqLite .jar.

Once the build path is configured, we still need to setup the run configuration for the project. Go to the "WeatherApplication" class underneath the application package. From here right click --> Run As --> Run Configurations.

1. Name the configuration whatever you prefer.

2. Under the "Main" tab, for the "Project" write: weather

3. Under the "Main" tab, for the "Main class" write: application.WeatherApplication

4. Click on the "Arguments" tab and in the "VM arguments" section add the following:

   --module-path C:\PATH-TO-JAVAFX-LOCATION --add-modules javafx.controls,javafx.fxml