Rusty Weather

Rusty Weather is a weather application made by Felgo.

The application retrieves weather data from the OpenWeather API to provide:

• Real-time weather data,
• 8-day forecasts data,
• Temperatures at particular times of the day,
• Daily rain amount and rain probability,
• UV index level,
• support for various locations around the globe.

The project demonstrates how to write a cross-platform Rust GUI application using the Slint toolkit. It includes subjects like:

• responsive layouts and adaptions for different screen sizes and orientations,
• providing fully customized look and feel with custom widgets,
• integrating Slint code with the Rust backend code,
• using async features with a Slint-based application and combining it with the Tokio runtime.

Check the application live here.

Weather data

To enable real weather data from the OpenWeather API, you must enable the open_weather feature and provide the RUSTY_WEATHER_API_KEY environment variable with your API key at build time. The OpenCall API subscription is required.

If you do not enable the feature or provide the key, the application loads the dummy data instead.

Note: You cannot use real weather data for the WebAssembly target.

Supported platforms

Desktop

The application runs on all desktop platforms (Windows, Linux and macOS).

To start the application, execute:

cargo run

Android

To be able to compile the application for Android, you must follow an initial setup. The instruction is available in Slint's documentation.

Note: To build openssl for Android, you must ensure that the proper development libraries are available in the system and provided in the PATH variable.

To start the application, execute:

cargo apk run --lib

WebAssembly

It is also possible to embed the application in a web page. You need to install the wasm-pack crate for this.

cargo install wasm-pack

To build the application, execute:

wasm-pack build --target web --out-dir <output-dir>/pkg

To run locally:

cp <source-dir>/wasm/index.html <output-dir>/   # you can also provide your HTML file
cd <output-dir> & python3 -m http.server

Now, you can access the application at http://localhost:8000/.