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I find the white backgrounds in Material obnoxious. It's as if Google's designers work in well-lit offices and don't test this stuff in dark environments where
by Zak 12y ago
I find the white backgrounds in Material obnoxious. It's as if Google's designers work in well-lit offices and don't test this stuff in dark environments where a white background hurts to look at. Light backgrounds also waste power with AMOLED screens.
I can understand why Google wasn't inclined to include a full theme engine on Android and ask to app developers to support that, however it seems to me that having a system-wide light-mode and dark-mode would be a great feature for devices centered around mobility and therefore not always used in well-lit offices.
- tadfisher 12y agoThere are plenty of apps that include alternate themes for night-mode and AMOLED screens. There is nothing in MD that dictates usage of a light theme.
- clay_to_n 12y agoMaterial on Android supports dark themes super well. Comes with MATERIAL.LIGHT and MATERIAL.DARK by default. It's up to the app developer to include an option to switch in the settings, but this is common in apps that are focused on reading. Most people prefer light.
- skeoh 12y agoWould be nice in this case for the setting to be global rather than per app.
- proexploit 12y agoAnd force the developer of every app to do two complete themes (assuming they have some branding / color scheme)? While I agree it would be nice if everyone did have the option, I don't think it makes sense as a requirement.
- karl42 12y agoYou could have a global setting which is used by all apps supporting that theme.
- Zak 12y agoI would like to see developers strongly encouraged to support a light and dark theme via system-wide setting. My preference would be for default colors to exist for each for when developers make no active effort to do so. If your app looks bad with the defaults, that's on you. A kinder, gentler approach would be for the global setting to only apply if the app supports the user's preference, but big commercial apps often don't support themes now, and probably wouldn't then.
- seanmcdirmid 12y agoDark backgrounds are painful to look at unless you have an AMOLED screen, backlit displays just can't do black very well and the foreground text bleeds to much.
- ocdtrekkie 12y agoFully agree. I've been deleting Google apps off my phone and replacing them with apps using the Holo Dark style UI. Far superior to what they create now.