How to measure air quality with your Android mobile

How to measure air quality

These days on the west side of America measuring air quality has become essential for the fires that are raging; Yes, there are so many that in certain localities the air is unbreathable, so there is no better way than to use an app to measure its quality and thus assess whether we have to go outside or not.

I mean, you can install an application that lets you know that at certain times of the day there is a better quality of the air and that perhaps it is better that you go running first thing in the morning than last as it is dirtier. We are going to show you an app that comes from pearls to know at all times if the air you breathe is the best. Go for it.

Air quality from your mobile with Air Visual

Know air quality from your mobile

To know the air quality this app called Air Visual, and that we have it for free from the Google Play Store, uses data from the European Environment Agency and the Madrid City Council. In fact, you can find the contributors when you open the details of a specific area.

Air Visual is an application that focuses on provide the level of air quality and thus we assess whether we are interested in going out to play sports or rather staying at home. Although it is true that we have spent months with unbeatable air quality in cities due to confinement, they will continue to be a place where we have to be careful with it.

Air quality forecast with photo

This app provides all the necessary information to give forecasts even for hours, as well as offering other types of information such as temperature, state of the day, wind speed and direction. From the main screen we have in color the status of the air quality with a score.

Also use a person's emoticon to show a satisfied face when the level of air quality is exceptional, or sad or neutral when things start to get worse. Activated the GPS we can have this summary of the area in which we are located, although we can also customize specific locations to know the state of air quality.

How to know the air level from your mobile

AirVisual

If we go down to the bottom we will find two buttons that interest us a lot: add place and manage places. With the first we can locate the places where we usually are. One is home and another is work. So we can know what awaits us this afternoon when we return and if it will be the right thing to go for a run or play sports.

Air Visual also provides the status of the air quality of other cities with some very well designed cards. And it is that we are facing an app that generates a great user experience very simple to understand with the colors and the faces of the people.

If we go to main screen we find «Environments», «Exposure» and «profile». A wheel represents the forecast of the hours to quickly know when the state is green, yellow or red. The profile can be modified when we register for free in the app so that we can choose our place of home or work.

An excellent app to measure the air level

View air quality from a map

At the bottom of the toolbar we also have the Map. This allows us to switch between a map view to see cities and countries, and a "globe" mode like Google Earth where we can see the air quality by color.

It is also interesting the other tabs such as the classification and where we can take a look at the world leader board of countries that pollute the most. And finally we even have the option to buy Air Visual from the last tab. A device that we can have at home and that will allow us to see the quality of the air at a glance.

One more than interesting app to measure air quality and that provides us with that information to assess our outputs Especially in a city where at certain times of the year the pollution is too much as it happens here in Madrid. And give yourself the pleasure of knowing this new weather app called AniWeather.

IQAir AirVisual | Air Quality
IQAir AirVisual | Air Quality
Developer: IQ Air AG
Price: Free

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