Friday, April 26, 2024

3D Planet Weather Simulator ‘Living Earth’ Updated with New Visual Design, Background App Refresh [iOS Blog]

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Popular 3D planet weather simulator Living Earth – Clock & Weather has received a major update today, featuring a refreshed design for iOS 7, additional support for weather conditions such as visibility, and background app refreshing for up-to-date Earth rendering. The update also includes parallax effects for devices running iOS 7 and general performance enhancements throughout the app.

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What’s New in Version 3.0
Living Earth 3.0 features a beautiful new icon and refreshed design for iOS7!

– Support for additional weather conditions. Swipe top conditions bar in the forecast view to display Dew Point, Visibility, Barometric pressure & UV Index.
– Feels Like temp is now displayed in the forecast view.
– Parallax effects for a touch of depth (iOS7 only).
– Background fetch, updates multitasking thumbnail for more up to date Earth rendering and weather (iOS7 only).
– Ability to enable and disable alarms in the alarm list view.
– Speed improvements throughout.
– Numerous bug fixes (but we won’t bore you with all those details).
– Numerous small tweaks that you probably won’t notice but we spent a lot of time on.
– Living Earth is now fully localized for German, Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Portuguese.

Living Earth has been noted on multiple occasions, including being chosen by Apple as the best iPhone and iPad utility in its 2011 App Store Rewind, being named by the New York Times as a top 10 iPad app, and featured by Starbucks as an “App Pick of the Week” earlier this year.

Living Earth – Clock & Weather is currently on sale at $2.99 for a limited time (increasing to $4.99 after the launch sale) and can be downloaded through the App Store. [Direct Link]

    





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