Foreca News

Weather is one of the most popular news topics. Many of us are interested in severe weather news, such as storms and heat waves. Also daily weather information is important for planning our daily activities. With good weather content on your news site you can attract more visitors and boost your site engagement. In this text we tell you, why weather content is worth adding on any news site.

Foreca Weather app is one of the most loved weather apps in the App Store and Play Store all around the world. In this article we share with you the story of how we made the app using the React Native platform and weather data provided by Foreca Weather API. We hope this article will help you to understand what it takes to develop a weather app for a global audience.

Before going into details about our experiences in coding with React Native, let us give you a brief introduction about us as the developer of Foreca Weather app.

Foreca can now offer a new version of weather maps for multipurpose usage. The Vector Map API gives data in vector polygon format in contrast to raster files (png). This format is even easier to customise according to your wishes and special needs.

The advantages compared to traditional raster image maps are: