Drizzle

Dino Hopic

About this app

Drizzle is an engineering-first weather radar application built to stay extremely small without sacrificing capability.
It is designed to be free forever, launch fast, and remain lightweight across releases.
Drizzle focuses on one job: high-speed radar access with minimal overhead.
Technical goals:
• Keep binary/package size exceptionally low
• Maintain responsive startup and interaction on low-resource devices
• Avoid unnecessary frameworks and background services
• Deliver clear USA, state, and regional radar navigation
• Preserve a stable, privacy-first architecture over time
What makes Drizzle different:
• Native app with a minimal runtime footprint
• No account required
• No ads
• No analytics/tracking SDKs
• Local cache used only for performance, with in-app cache clearing controls
How it got here: Drizzle was iteratively optimized through multiple build and packaging revisions:
• aggressive binary-size tuning,
• resource/icon pipeline redesign,
• CI/CD hardening,
• modern Android toolchain updates (Java LTS),
• release signing and store-compliance automation.
The result is a deliberately compact radar app that prioritizes efficiency, reliability, and long-term maintainability while staying free and tiny by design.

What’s new

Welcome to Drizzle’s first public Android release.
Drizzle is a lightweight, radar-first weather app for quickly checking live precipitation without extra clutter by clicking on regions or states.
• Fast, simple radar viewing with state/region tap navigation
• Improved layout across phone sizes and orientations
• Better cache handling for fresher radar updates
• Cleaner edge-to-edge Android UI behavior
• Ongoing stability and reliability improvements