Dark Sky App Review. Original 8/1: The official Dark Sky app for Android was originally scheduled to stop working on July 1st. Ahead of that deadline, the phone/tablet and Wear OS clients were pulled from the Play. Dark Sky is the most accurate source of hyperlocal weather information: with down-to-the-minute forecasts for your exact location, you'll never get caught in the rain again. (It's like magic!) With down-to-the-minute forecasts for your exact location from Dark Sky, you'll never get caught in the rain again. Dark Sky is no more, at least for Android users. After Apple’s acquisition of Dark Sky, the popular weather app is being pulled from the Google Play Store and will cease working for Android.
After the Apple acquisition, the Dark Sky weather app for Android users is shutting down in a few short months. Many other apps also depend on data Dark Sky sells via an API, which is getting shut. The Dark Sky API: Now’s your time to decide whether you want to stick with the Dark Sky API or ditch it for something else. This is a tough decision, as the Dark Sky API will continue to work till the end of 2021 so you might as well take advantage of it as long as you can.
Dark Sky is available in the App Store, and I tested it on an iPhone 6. It's a bit pricey at $3.99, but it's a one-time fee instead of Weather Underground's $1.99 annual fee.
Dark Sky is now sitting at an average rating of 1.4/5 stars on the Google Play Store, down from 4.3/5 stars on January 14th. During that same period, the number of reviews has increased from. Dark Sky is available in the App Store, and I tested it on an iPhone 6. It's a bit pricey at $3.99, but it's a one-time fee instead of Weather Underground's $1.99 annual fee. Dark Sky is now sitting at an average rating of 1.4/5 stars on the Google Play Store, down from 4.3/5 stars on January 14th. During that same period, the number of reviews has increased from. Dark Sky, one of the most popular weather apps, has died at the hands of an Apple acquisition. In its abscence, here are the best weather apps for Android.