How to set Weather icons for Night and Day both on Android

Question

I am making a weather app. Whole app is done and everything is working fine except NIGHT ICONS. I have set icons for the day. But I don't how to set two different icons on one condition that checks the time, if its day it shows SUN & if its night it should show MOON

Here is my code:

private static String updateWeatherIcon(int condition) {

    if (condition >= 0 && condition < 300) {
        return "tstorm1";
    } else if (condition >= 300 && condition < 500) {
        return "light_rain";
    } else if (condition >= 500 && condition < 600) {
        return "shower3";
    } else if (condition >= 600 && condition <= 700) {
        return "snow4";
    } else if (condition >= 701 && condition <= 771) {
        return "fog";
    } else if (condition >= 772 && condition < 800) {
        return "tstorm3";
    } else if (condition == 800) {
        return "sunny";
    } else if (condition >= 801 && condition <= 804) {
        return "cloudy2";
    } else if (condition >= 900 && condition <= 902) {
        return "tstorm3";
    } else if (condition == 903) {
        return "snow5";
    } else if (condition == 904) {
        return "sunny";
    } else if (condition >= 905 && condition <= 1000) {
        return "tstorm3";
    }

    return "dunno";
}

please help me out.

Answer 1

1) The weather API would never return "sunny" on the night time. So, you may not need to worry about it.

2) OpenWeather API returns the icon code in the response - "icon":"04n" They have a set of weather icons listed in https://openweathermap.org/weather-conditions which you can use or mimic. They do have different icons for day and night.

Hope that helps!

Answer 2

Guys i have found my Solution Thank you all

 long currentTime = new Date().getTime();
            if(currentTime>=sunrise && currentTime<sunset) {
                return "sunny";
            } else {
                return "nighticon";
            }     

Answer 3

1. The openweathermap it self allow the trick for setting night and day icons. please refer ti that link https://openweathermap.org/weather-conditions

2. In the response we get iconId by that we can separate that icons....

hope it will help you