3.7
158 reviews
10K+
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I have had people ask for resizing on this. I enabled resizing which works fine on my Lenovo tablet but people are complaining about it not working on their phone. The widget is already four icons wide and the ratio of the screen is what it is. If your phone is also four icons wide, your options are, of course, limited. If you have an idea what you want, tell me what it is and I'll probably see if I can implement it. Otherwise, as far as I'm aware, resizing works as expected and simply complaining won't help anyone.

GOOD NEWS! No need to update to plus. I found the key. New update uploaded

Note that this is a widget. Once installed, you will have to add it to your homescreen, it won't do it automatically! You may need to reboot your phone before the widget shows as avalable (this is a known issue with Android).

Newschannel5 Storm Tracker radar watching app (Neither this app nor company are associated with Newschannel 5 in any way). Updates every 20 minutes unless refreshed manually.

A couple of my commenters don't seem to get the widget thing. Constructive comments would be appreciated (It's free, no ads after all)

It appears that at least one ad blocking application, Adaway blocks the site that provides the images. If you are not getting a display, consider disabling the ad blocking or add the site to the whitelist. The site is ftpcontent2.worldnow.com

Update, 2nd March. Images have not been updating since the 2nd of February. Looks like Newschannel5 definitely changed their site this time. Please stand by.
Updated on
Feb 1, 2016

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Ratings and reviews

3.9
144 reviews
A Google user
November 21, 2015
This is the second time that this radar widget has frozen on a date (Oct 19) and will not update to the current day (now Nov 20). I have cleared the cache and have uninstalled and reinstalled it, no change. Too bad, when it works it's pretty handy....
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Richard Thomas Consulting
February 1, 2016
New update should be coming out. I totally missed that it was not updating. Unfortunately, I am at the mercy of Newschannel5 but I will see what I can do about that.
A Google user
May 31, 2015
My only complaint is that the claim is made you can resize it. This is false. You can resize a nice square around the 2x4 widget, but the image remains the same. I have the Samsung Galaxy S5. Still a wonderful app! Thank you!!!!!!! NOTE TO DEVELOPER: You cannot just add resizing. You must add a second widget and/or widget option with 4x4 for full screen. Check out other widgets, even the Android Alarm Widget is this way. You may be more familar with Iphones.
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Richard Thomas Consulting
February 1, 2016
Hi Steve, the resizing does work for tablets which have a larger than 4x4 area to resize into. You are correct that this will not work for phones that have a max of 4 wide as it is already 4x2. I am guessing you would want it to rotate if it was larger on your S5
A Google user
August 11, 2014
Used to be a great app but no longer works. Beginning last week would not update. Updated the app still doesn't work. Uninstalled.. reinstalled.. No luck..on droid x
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NC5 changed URLs again.

Note, Due to changes, now a problem with keeping up-to-date. Need to study