The popular Dark Sky weather app, now owned by Apple, will keep its doors open on Android for a little longer.
The company said in an update on its website on Wednesday that it plans to keep the Android version until August 1, after initially announcing it would be closed today on July 1. Presumably, the Wear OS version still works as well, but we were unable to verify this. However, both apps appear to have been removed from the Play Store, so you must either download the app or have downloaded it at least once in the past in order to continue using it for another month, according to 9to5Google.
On August 1, all existing subscribers to the Android version of Dark Sky will receive a full refund: Dark Sky has charged Android users $ 2.99 a year for access to the service, while the iOS version involved a purchase one time $ 3.99. Dark Sky says August 1 is also when it will remove weather forecasts, maps, and fouling from its website, which also pushed back the original July 1 deadline.
The Dark Sky API, in part for which Apple bought the company, remains active until the end of the year, but no longer accepts new subscriptions. That will eventually cut off third-party applications from the platform’s valuable data.
