Satellite loops tablet

[Mike Hardiman]

Does anyone know of a site or app that displays high quality satellite LOOPS and will work on an Android tablet? The looping applets on the TTU, COD, and RAP/UCAR sites do not work on Android or iphone.

 

[Eric Friedebach]

WeatherTAP Mobile will do it for me.

 

[mikedeason]

A pretty decent free option is My-Weather Lite. For the price, the visible imagery is surprisingly good but it is only a four image loop.

 

[Dan Robinson]

The COD loops work on my Android tablet - have you tried the Firefox browser? COD works fine in both FF and the stock Android browser on my tablet.

 

[Mike Hardiman]

A pretty decent free option is My-Weather Lite. For the price, the visible imagery is surprisingly good but it is only a four image loop.

Thanks, Mike. That's the first app I've seen on any mobile platform that has actual remapped satellite data (rather than just static images) of any quality, and the only one that has geo-referenced images. I'd never have bothered downloading it since on the Google Store it looks like just another one of the thousands of non-technical, not-very-useful weather apps out there.

I do wish they didn't try to give a colorized background to the visible imagery, but it looks like most of the details are not lost.

WeatherUnderground has geo-referenced satellite imagery ("WunderMap") on their smartphone/tablet apps, but it is post-processed, overly-smoothed IR imagery.

 

[Mike Hardiman]

The COD loops work on my Android tablet - have you tried the Firefox browser? COD works fine in both FF and the stock Android browser on my tablet.

So it does. I didn't think either the stock browser nor Firefox could handle Flash on Android. It seems to be variable -- I've run into many websites with flash "slideshows" that do not load on Firefox.

I have mostly been using "Dolphin for Pad" since it has a slightly less-annoying Bookmarks GUI, and usually sends you to the "Full Site" version of web pages. "Dolphin Beta" seemed to have Flash support for some sites, but not others.

I really wish there was an Android browser that had a proper "Bookmarks Bar" ... there's plenty of room for one on a tablet.

The lack of consistent Flash and Java support is annoying. It reminds me of trying to browse the web with Linux 10 years ago.