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Many of the default Android menus are white text on a black background. Not only do I find these visually unappealing, they are actually counter productive given how poorly dark themes read in sunlight.
Can these be changed to black text on a white background (or light background) instead? Does anyone have a theme they can share to accomplish this? Thank you.
OK, I guess this is not possible. It's a shame because I find Android's list based menus awfully plain and unaesthetic. White text on a black background with little visual art...it really looks like a plain vanilla terminal of yesteryear. While I love Android's openness, customization, and tweaker-friendly platform, it really needs a major overhaul in terms of looks and user friendliness. In short, the GUI needs some polish and consistency.
It would appear that Android has built-in "themes" for apps to use. If none is specified, then the dark or black theme is used. I wonder if there is a way to force apps to use the "light" theme even if specified otherwise. Perhaps a custom ROM could be created to always use the light theme.
http://www.anddev.org/tutorial_ui_themes-t4367.html
i know this thread is old enogh, but i'm searching for a answer to this question too.
Same here, I´m looking for a solution to this problem
For me is near impossible to read white letters on black background, and i have a new ZTE Blade that can´t use because this
If someone have a solution, please !!!
Thanks!
Recently this has been bugging me as well. I wish there was a very simple way to perhaps tweak the framework and systemui so that black on white can become a reality...
This is totally feasible. You would have to do a bunch of XML edits in your framework-res.apk and declare everything correctly.
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Changing the theme style in styles.xml should work I guess... if I have little to do I can take a look
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Okay, I've done it, just gotta see if I've caused any bugs and write a how to
Edit: Bah, it's hard, the whole system and lots of apps are based on how it is now, changing it causes lots of trouble. Don't know if I'll make it :/
Btw, I did it in my cm7 theme. You can see it in my signature
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AWESOME. There are some issues though, such as black text on dark backgrounds in the music app, which I'm guessing would take more than some xml editing to fix. But other than that it's GREAT!
EnMod said:
AWESOME. There are some issues though, such as black text on dark backgrounds in the music app, which I'm guessing would take more than some xml editing to fix. But other than that it's GREAT!
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Thanks I have fixed most of these issues I think, but one of the issues was kind of tricky, cause when I fix them, I create others :/ and I don't have the stock music app installed atm, I will install it and see the issue myeself
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Thanks I have fixed most of these issues I think, but one of the issues was kind of tricky, cause when I fix them, I create others :/ and I don't have the stock music app installed atm, I will install it and see the issue myeself
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I don't see that theme anymore in your signature. Would it be possible for you to share it? I'm still in search of a way to get Android to be a bit lighter (outside of going with MIUI), which I find far more visually appealing.
UPDATED for the latest cog 2.3b3-its the last attachment(marked as 23b3) make sure you download the version that you are running or it will cause problems. Changed the circle batt in this version to the normal smooth green circle instead of the one shown. i think it matches a little better
Updated to work with Cog-2.3B-make sure you download the right one. The second attachment with 23b2 at the end is (obviously) for Cognition 2.3B2
The first attachment with no version at the end of the file name is for those who havent upgraded and are still on the older cog B9.
Im using a custom boot animation that matches this theme pretty well. It is the first one in this thread-
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696193
Just got done making this theme for the captivate. This is a pretty full theme, also includes evo black bar, circle batt, and a nice notification pull down.
Its compatible with any cognition with the extended power options but the most recent 9.1.3 was the framework that was modified.
This took forever to finally finish.
Just put this on your internal SD and flash with clockwork. Will not wipe anything.
*Just fixed the icons in the power menu(airplane & silent)*
credit to DG for the rom this goes to
credit to fightspit for the circle battery
credit goes to faster3200 for a lot of the original images.
Looks nice! I'd love to try it out but I'm firmly of the belief that if it ain't broke don't fix it. I won't be messing with my phone again til something serious happens.
looks good. gonna backup and test it out
Love this man, get it working for DocRambone's v7 JPO rom too if it's possible
I like the looks of this better then any other theme so far.
Nicely done just did it to try it out worked perfectly
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Love the new icons, ty.
However, the icons on my lower bar didn't change. How do I get them to look like yours? e.g. mail, browser, apps...
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Love the new icons, ty.
However, the icons on my lower bar didn't change. How do I get them to look like yours? e.g. mail, browser, apps...
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those are just stock launcher pro icons. you can download the launcher for free from the market.
di11igaf said:
those are just stock launcher pro icons. you can download the launcher for free from the market.
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Aaah, D'oH!
I'm still learning, recent iPhone convert here! Thank you.
Looks awesome. Exactly what I was looking for.....
Clock?
What clock is that?
I dont see it under widget, did you get it from the market?
If so whats the name?
thanks!! theme looks great!
acornejo129 said:
What clock is that?
I dont see it under widget, did you get it from the market?
If so whats the name?
thanks!! theme looks great!
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Its beauwidget widgets from the market with minimalist skin
Exact same theme/set-up I have LOL
Great minds think alike XD
lost internet
I lost my internet connectivity when i applied it! I would love to use it and congrats on a great theme but it just broke my connection. Thanks for the work.
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I lost my internet connectivity when i applied it! I would love to use it and congrats on a great theme but it just broke my connection. Thanks for the work.
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did you try rebooting or anything. its really just modifying the images in framework file, all the other files(even the xml's) in the framework folder are exactly the same.
the only reason i say that is because i have 2 captivates, and every once in a while its like there stuck. sometimes its when going from wifi to 3g and sometimes its just
random and cycling airplane mode will fix it if not then a reboot does.
hey guys this is my very first time posting on this forum i have a captivate rooted and running cog 9.1.3 and just tried your theme and everything started to force close on me any idea what might have went wrong, thanks
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hey guys this is my very first time posting on this forum i have a captivate rooted and running cog 9.1.3 and just tried your theme and everything started to force close on me any idea what might have went wrong, thanks
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never mind reinstalled and all is well good work.
Love the theme, one little problem, I can't see the clock, it's the same black as the status bar? Any thoughts? Should I just try reflashing?
mkurzum said:
Love the theme, one little problem, I can't see the clock, it's the same black as the status bar? Any thoughts? Should I just try reflashing?
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Flashed a different theme then came back to this one, everything works great now.
works with the newest v2.3b cognition. no problems so far.
On reboot after install, phone seems to be stuck on the cognition splash screen, vibrating like something is force closing every 5 seconds or so. Any ideas? I am on cog 2.3b.
This is the first theme for the ICSSGS port! It is more of a mod, and a theme, but I'll get to explaining that. This mod works on any phone running RC1.
First off, this is universal to all the mod:
-All rotation enabled (screen rotates upside down)
-Lockscreen rotation
-New Default Wallpaper
-Optimized Framework
-Overscroll Glow Enhanced
-Removes most traces of Gingerbread that would poke through when using installed apps
-NEW!accurate battery mod
Screenshots before
Screenshots after
Download for RC1 Patch.
Now this is where the themes come into play.
And now we have the CYAN mod! (NOT what it sounds like LOL)
Screenshots
Porting..._________________________________________________
And now we have the PURPLE mod!
Screenshots
Porting..__________________
Revert for RC1.
I plan on adding more colors and whatever else I can think of. As of right now I'm working on a darker blue and a green theme.
you know the rule.
screen shots or it didnt happen. red. ya right.
(sarcasm)
I guess I can upload screenshots, but its just the stock theme...just red. That's all it is.
10 char...
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So I tried the first mod out....it seemed to cause some 5sec lag. After undo, the lag was gone...hopefully I'm the only one with this issue. Good try on a mod...
I'm coming from a7 with 7.5 kernel
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Same build as you, I have no lag. When do you experience the lag?
Dont seem to be feeling the lag, but its broke auto-brightness, and the launcher does not rotate. Everything else does tho... Can you make it happen?
EDIT: Actually seems to have reduced lag. Although, could be pseudo, or a reboot effect
EDIT 2: I have an i9000! Ignore my broken autobrightness
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Dont seem to be feeling the lag, but its broke auto-brightness, and the launcher does not rotate. Everything else does tho... Can you make it happen?
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The launcher never rotated, but I am actually working on that. And I thought I fixed the auto-brightness issue? Give me a minute and I'll check up on that. Which mod are you using?
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The launcher never rotated, but I am actually working on that. And I thought I fixed the auto-brightness issue? Give me a minute and I'll check up on that. Which mod are you using?
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Mod? Clean Onecosmic's alpha 7, and this
EDIT: Derp moment, using first mod, no virtual buttons
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Mod? Clean Onecosmic's alpha 7, and this
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I mean which one? lol I have 6 different mods up right now.
DemonWav, I'm sure, many people (especially those coming from DarkyRom) would love a green mod.
redviperhh said:
DemonWav, I'm sure, many people would love a green mod.
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That is a good idea. I'll get one up soon.
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That is a good idea. I'll get one up soon.
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Would flashing the non-virtual buttons zip remove virtual buttons, ill like to try them but dont want to be stuck with them if i dont like.
EDIT: Nvm just saw the revert file.
Can I put this on the latest ICS beta? I'm on ICS_4.0.1_r1-Beta1-i9000 and beta 1 captivate kernel.
You should be able to, but I'm not going to test until I get Beta 1 done.
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You should be able to, but I'm not going to test until I get Beta 1 done.
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Thank you for your hard work.
Working fine on beta1 vibrant kernel vibrant phone.
Thanks
With virtual buttons one youtube is crashing on landscape mode, also do you have any tips to get virtual keyboard overlapping thingy fixed. i9000 and beta1. Otherwise this is awesome, I have been wanting virtual buttons for a log time,dont know why
thank you for your hard work.
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i love my ics cappy even more now.
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With virtual buttons one youtube is crashing on landscape mode, also do you have any tips to get virtual keyboard overlapping thingy fixed. i9000 and beta1. Otherwise this is awesome, I have been wanting virtual buttons for a log time,dont know why
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Haven't been running the virtual buttons to know about the bugs you are talking about, I'm going to flash the purple theme that I'm about to upload and take a look.
Do you think there is anyway you could switch the option to unlock to camera to a unlock to messaging on the lockscreen? And looking forward to the purple theme!
Hi, so I updated my Note8 to Oreo today, installed Andromeda, followed the instructions for Swift Black, and I get them to install, but if I reboot the phone, the theme does not stick. I then have to go in, remove the themes, reboot, and do it again.
Am I missing something or doing something wrong?
And the theme doesn't apply right. Same issue for me.
I made a mistake updating to Oreo, preferred Substratum more when I was on Nougat.
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Yes it was much better on nougat. It seems we have to be connected to a PC every time to start it on Oreo.
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Lancerz said:
Yes it was much better on nougat. It seems we have to be connected to a PC every time to start it on Oreo.
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I'll just reminisce, top two Substratum themes for me were Wings and also Swift for Samsung.
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I've been on Oreo for a while and unfortunately this is an issue that's been persisting for months. I gave up on
Substratum because as said before you will absolutely need to enable Andromeda EVERY time you reboot your phone and need to run Substratum. That's if the overlays even stuck in the first place. I've been using ThemeGalaxy and IMO its better than Substratum. The changes stick and you can make them custom to how you want it and the theme is applied fro,m the Theme store on the device so it doesn't matter how many times you reboot. Give it a try, i hope it helps i know just how frustrating using Substratum can be.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-themediy-samsung-galaxy-s8-s7-s6-j-t3685010
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And the theme doesn't apply right. Same issue for me.
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Well it does apply and work well, until I reboot the phone. If I understand correctly, you have to activate Andromeda every time you reboot, but Substratum will not reapply the theme after that and I have to remove the theme, reboot, apply the theme, reboot, enable the theme. PITA is you ask me.
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I've been on Oreo for a while and unfortunately this is an issue that's been persisting for months. I gave up on
Substratum because as said before you will absolutely need to enable Andromeda EVERY time you reboot your phone and need to run Substratum. That's if the overlays even stuck in the first place. I've been using ThemeGalaxy and IMO its better than Substratum. The changes stick and you can make them custom to how you want it and the theme is applied fro,m the Theme store on the device so it doesn't matter how many times you reboot. Give it a try, i hope it helps i know just how frustrating using Substratum can be.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-themediy-samsung-galaxy-s8-s7-s6-j-t3685010
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Thanks! I'll check that out
I was having the same issue. I was loving substratum on nougat now on Oreo they never stick. My nav buttons constantly go back to the stock Samsung ones and under substratum it tells me the nav bar theme is active and installed. I have to manually connect it to a computer just to uninstall and then reinstall every single time. I'm just gonna stick to Samsung theme store
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Well it does apply and work well, until I reboot the phone. If I understand correctly, you have to activate Andromeda every time you reboot, but Substratum will not reapply the theme after that and I have to remove the theme, reboot, apply the theme, reboot, enable the theme. PITA is you ask me.
Thanks! I'll check that out
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I got root. So Andromeda is not needed. Just the themes are not applying correctly. And appears buggy for me. And yes I'm using Oreo Samsung compatible themes
Y0sHii said:
I've been on Oreo for a while and unfortunately this is an issue that's been persisting for months. I gave up on
Substratum because as said before you will absolutely need to enable Andromeda EVERY time you reboot your phone and need to run Substratum. That's if the overlays even stuck in the first place. I've been using ThemeGalaxy and IMO its better than Substratum. The changes stick and you can make them custom to how you want it and the theme is applied fro,m the Theme store on the device so it doesn't matter how many times you reboot. Give it a try, i hope it helps i know just how frustrating using Substratum can be.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-themediy-samsung-galaxy-s8-s7-s6-j-t3685010
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I've been using ThemeGalaxy now and it works pretty well. A little less 3rd party app support, but that should grow. Overall, I'm happy to have themes back again!
TheStillMan said:
I've been using ThemeGalaxy now and it works pretty well. A little less 3rd party app support, but that should grow. Overall, I'm happy to have themes back again!
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Glad to hear it, i still use Substratum for overlays with a few things here and there but ultimately i use ThemeGalaxy. Hopefully Substratum will start to work better on Samsung devices running Oreo in near updates.
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I've been using ThemeGalaxy now and it works pretty well. A little less 3rd party app support, but that should grow. Overall, I'm happy to have themes back again!
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What's theme Galaxy?
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What's theme Galaxy?
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Check the link below. Different theme app.
Y0sHii said:
I've been on Oreo for a while and unfortunately this is an issue that's been persisting for months. I gave up on
Substratum because as said before you will absolutely need to enable Andromeda EVERY time you reboot your phone and need to run Substratum. That's if the overlays even stuck in the first place. I've been using ThemeGalaxy and IMO its better than Substratum. The changes stick and you can make them custom to how you want it and the theme is applied fro,m the Theme store on the device so it doesn't matter how many times you reboot. Give it a try, i hope it helps i know just how frustrating using Substratum can be.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/apps-games/app-themediy-samsung-galaxy-s8-s7-s6-j-t3685010
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Well it does apply and work well, until I reboot the phone. If I understand correctly, you have to activate Andromeda every time you reboot, but Substratum will not reapply the theme after that and I have to remove the theme, reboot, apply the theme, reboot, enable the theme. PITA is you ask me.
Thanks! I'll check that out
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That was my experience--basically, the themes would not stick on reboot even though I was not updating apps or re-applying themes. The System UI themes would stick, but not the apps. They all went back to default. I tried this numerous times and it didn't work...
Until this morning. The only change I did was I made sure that, to begin with, I was using the default Samsung theme from their theme store. Once I did that, it started working better. So basically...
Uninstall all overlays, reboot;
Make sure you are using Samsung default theme.
I deleted other themes I downloaded (Material_Black in my case);
Reboot;
Select overlays and choose "Install and Enable". Reboot.
Select overlays and choose "Enable selected". After a couple of secs the Substratum app updates its own theme.
Reboot.
In the past, after the last step, the app themes go back to default. Today, I rebooted 3-4 times and everything stick. I'm not really sure whether it was the Samsung default theme thing or just pure lucky configuration at the time. I just thought I'd share.
Going forward, my pain is when I update apps, I have to connect my PC and re-apply overlays. This is not so bad for me because:
I update apps manually weekly
The new Substratum experience does not require me to acknowledge install and uninstall of each overlay--It's automatic which I prefer.
I'll check out ThemeGalaxy though. That looks interesting.
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That was my experience--basically, the themes would not stick on reboot even though I was not updating apps or re-applying themes. The System UI themes would stick, but not the apps. They all went back to default. I tried this numerous times and it didn't work...
Until this morning. The only change I did was I made sure that, to begin with, I was using the default Samsung theme from their theme store. Once I did that, it started working better. So basically...
Uninstall all overlays, reboot;
Make sure you are using Samsung default theme.
I deleted other themes I downloaded (Material_Black in my case);
Reboot;
Select overlays and choose "Install and Enable". Reboot.
Select overlays and choose "Enable selected". After a couple of secs the Substratum app updates its own theme.
Reboot.
In the past, after the last step, the app themes go back to default. Today, I rebooted 3-4 times and everything stick. I'm not really sure whether it was the Samsung default theme thing or just pure lucky configuration at the time. I just thought I'd share.
Going forward, my pain is when I update apps, I have to connect my PC and re-apply overlays. This is not so bad for me because:
I update apps manually weekly
The new Substratum experience does not require me to acknowledge install and uninstall of each overlay--It's automatic which I prefer.
I'll check out ThemeGalaxy though. That looks interesting.
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Which theme are you using? I gave Substratum another try and I am able to get them to stick now, but nothing is theming the Quick Settings or Notification area.
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Which theme are you using? I gave Substratum another try and I am able to get them to stick now, but nothing is theming the Quick Settings or Notification area.
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Swift for Samsung, black option.
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Swift for Samsung, black option.
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Huh, that's what I'm using too. Android System will theme, but System UI, System UI QS Tile Icons, and System UI Status Bar Icons will not theme, they stay orange in Substratum and never enable.
There's a Telegram channel for Swift Themes. I can't link to it because I am new here. You can find it at the bottom of the Googl Play store link for Swift Black.
They have links to alpha/beta builds of Substratum. I followed the directions on their and am now running a working copy of Swift Black on my Note 8. Took me hours to figure this out hope it helps someone.
Does anyone have any idea when the official update will come?
Yes. Samsung knows.
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pie update
Just started the download
Today
Would substratum themes still work on Pie?
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Would substratum themes still work on Pie?
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I read somewhere that they do not.
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Would substratum themes still work on Pie?
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Seems even many of the Samsung themes in the theme store do not fully support Pie. After finding a dark theme that I liked and that actually worked on Pie, I ended up just switching to the default theme and turning on night mode (you can't use night mode if you're using a theme). I did this because some elements were not impacted by the theme like they used to be in the past (the default email client specifically in my case).
I'm on at&t and still no update
Updated yesterday AT&T
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Seems even many of the Samsung themes in the theme store do not fully support Pie. After finding a dark theme that I liked and that actually worked on Pie, I ended up just switching to the default theme and turning on night mode (you can't use night mode if you're using a theme). I did this because some elements were not impacted by the theme like they used to be in the past (the default email client specifically in my case).
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Does does having night mode on all the time invert photo colors negatively?
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Does does having night mode on all the time invert photo colors negatively?
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No. Night Mode is not inverting the colors. Its a dark theme.
Namolas said:
Does does having night mode on all the time invert photo colors negatively?
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No, it only darkens some aspects of the UI for settings, notifications, and some of the stock apps such as the dialer, stock email app, etc. Even the content in those apps (for example a photo in the body of the email) are unaffected.
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No. Night Mode is not inverting the colors. Its a dark theme.
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No, it only darkens some aspects of the UI for settings, notifications, and some of the stock apps such as the dialer, stock email app, etc. Even the content in those apps (for example a photo in the body of the email) are unaffected.
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Guess I should have tried it before now, I just always assumed it would invert the photos too. Thanks for the answers! :good:
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I read somewhere that they do not.
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Works for me though I selected Pixel.
Updated to Pie just know, pretty dope!
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Just got it today. Adaptive Battery is a good thing. Changing time from right to left is a stupid thing.
Recent Apps is now similar to iPhone - swipe away. Not as efficient as the old way where all the open apps were stacked, you could see them all at once, and you could quickly hit the X on each app you wanted to close.
Do they actually do any usability testing when they change things like this? Sheesh!