How to switch weather provider in Lineage OS ROMs

If you are one of those users who is keen about collecting weather data from different sources but due to limitations of weather sources in custom ROMs as well as stock firmware from the manufacturer you can’t switch it. But now it is possible, if you have a Lineage OS running device, you will be glad to know that Lineage OS Team has introduced plugins for the first time to let you change the weather provider of your choice.

Lineage OS ROMs provide a variety of customized features and improvements over CyanogenMod ROMs (dead now), this is the first time developers at Lineage OS gave user additional feature to collect data from three different providers including Yahoo, Weather Underground and Open Weather Map. All you need to do is just download the weather provider apk and install it on your device as normal apk installation.

How to switch weather provider in Lineage OS ROMs

Download the weather provider of your choice from here.

Place the downloaded weather provider apk in your device internal storage or SD card.

Enable unknown sources by going into Settings > Security and enable unknown sources.

Open file manager and choose the downloaded weather provider apk and follow the on screen installation process.

That’s it! Now you have option to change weather provider of your choice on Lineage OS ROMs.

via XDA

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