The Google Weather Android ‘app’ is going away

Google is getting rid of Android’s de facto Weather app in favor of Search results. This deprecation slowly started a few months ago, but is now picking up steam.

The Google app has long offered a fullscreen “Weather” experience that’s launched from a homescreen shortcut: sun and cloud badged by the ‘G’ icon.

Tapping takes you to a single feed with a search bar that lets you switch between saved cities. A Froggy background appears first with the current temperature, high/low, condition, and feels like. 

Next is the Hourly forecast carousel and 10-day forecast that can be tapped for more details. Current conditions has cards for Wind, Humidity, UV Index, Pressure, and Sunrise & sunset. Precipitation, Wind, and Humidity graphs appear in Hour details.

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In recent months, users tapping the Weather homescreen shortcut have instead been taken to a Google Search…