Can someone offer some insight on how to access a weather report?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
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Since I primarily develop games, I have no idea where to look in the API to figure out how to access a weather report from a Corona app.

Any pointers in the right direction are all I am looking for at the moment, just trying to do some due diligence on an app idea.

Thanks,

Mike Hovland
Blue Rocket Labs
http://www.bluerocketlabs.com [import]uid: 5317 topic_id: 4806 reply_id: 304806[/import]

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Use http commands to request data from some weather web service:
http://developer.anscamobile.com/content/network

For example, weather.com has an XML data feed:
http://www.weather.com/services/ [import]uid: 12108 topic_id: 4806 reply_id: 15389[/import]

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Thanks for that. I will continue my investigation, but this definitely looks promising. [import]uid: 5317 topic_id: 4806 reply_id: 15499[/import]

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I’ve developed an app that retrieves weather data from a webserver (pipclock.com)…
The problem with the http command in Corona is that it’s not asynchronous, so while you retrieve the data the application stop responding to user input and freezes any animation… hope it’s going to be fixed soon.
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Asynchroneus http slated for mid January release

Carlos [import]uid: 24 topic_id: 4806 reply_id: 15708[/import]

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AWESOME!! [import]uid: 9158 topic_id: 4806 reply_id: 15711[/import]

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Here’s an example weather app in Corona SDK: http://developer.anscamobile.com/code/weather-app-example [import]uid: 13209 topic_id: 4806 reply_id: 19670[/import]

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oo thanks for the xml handling example. It’s probably what I already do routinely in other languages, but it’ll be nice to have a confirmation that using XML in Lua works the same way. [import]uid: 12108 topic_id: 4806 reply_id: 19763[/import]