All attributes and drawables for the dark theme would go under ‘values-night’ and ‘drawable-night’. (For ‘drawable-hdpi’ it would be ‘drawable-night-hdpi’). Now for all the custom styles and drawables, you can create resource directories as ‘values-night’ and ‘drawable-night’. To use the former theme, you will need to add this dependency: implementation ':material:1.2.0-alpha06' Theme.MaterialComponents extends Theme.AppCompat and adds some new attributes to it (More on MaterialComponents, here).

A preferable solutionĪ developer-friendly solution of customizing styles and colors would be using the DayNight theme. ‘ android:forceDarkAllowed' can also be set on specific views to allow or deny setting dark theme on them. Now, while you can claim that your app supports dark mode, you cannot really fully customize the way your app looks with this approach.Īlso, this solution might not work for everyone since some apps might look strange since this change is fully controlled by the Android system. The simplest way with minimal code change would be adding this to your App theme in styles.xml true. To force dark mode in your app, you can enable ‘Override force-dark’ in Developer options to give you a glimpse of how the app would look like in a dark theme. If you change your system theme to Dark, you will notice that your app’s UI doesn't really change. This article talks about, how you can implement dark mode in your existing production application and introduce a switch to toggle between Light & Dark mode on older Android versions. And if you haven't already updated your app to support Dark theme, your app could soon appear to be an outdated application. With Android 10 rolling out in more and more devices every month, the need for an Android app to support dark mode is on the rise.

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