So a common trend (which I welcome really) in AOSP builds is the addition of a dark mode. If you aren't aware of what this is, it changes the backgrounds of certain apps to black, so things like the increasingly bright google apps have a black background now to make it easy on the eyes. However there seems to be a problem I'm constantly running into, and its intriguing that I haven't seen 1 post about it, try as I might to find a solution.
There are certain apps that I guess make calls to the same resources as some of androids ui, to get their rules about what to do with color, except those apps were not made with black backgrounds in mind, as shown by the lack of white or colored text to let you see what the hell you are doing. I guess I would even understand if I just had to turn off the dark mode as thats not that big of a deal. The problem is that these apps STAY THAT WAY. I'm not sure if this happens on TW roms, since they dont have much theming options. I thought maybe it had something to do with my backups, maybe they were carrying something over from other roms, but new apps entirely were suffering the same fate. I've changed the theme with theme changer and that seemed to be sort of solution, except I dont want to have to switch themes just to be able to read an app. The other problem there is that dark themes I've used do the same damned thing in the opposite direction making text and check boxes, unreadable or undetectable, because the devs haven't thought that "hey making things dark probably wont work for every app". Does anyone else experience this issue, and does anyone have some suggestions? Its extremely frustrating.
Related
Just noticed, to the people who experience lag when scrolling through a message thread of one of your contacts - on my gs3 I've found that if I set the background colour of the messages to one of the 'default' ones, rather than selecting my own image, it goes away.
May be this is just an eccentricity of my particular handset but it's worth having a go if you have a custom background of any kind as I find the lag has totally gone now that I've set it to one of the 'stock' background options.
Bloody annoying though.....I specifically wanted my custom black background so as to match the colour co-ordination of everything else in messages. Nevermind...
paddylaz said:
Just noticed, to the people who experience lag when scrolling through a message thread of one of your contacts - on my gs3 I've found that if I set the background colour of the messages to one of the 'default' ones, rather than selecting my own image, it goes away.
May be this is just an eccentricity of my particular handset but it's worth having a go if you have a custom background of any kind as I find the lag has totally gone now that I've set it to one of the 'stock' background options.
Bloody annoying though.....I specifically wanted my custom black background so as to match the colour co-ordination of everything else in messages. Nevermind...
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Noticed this a while back too. Ridiculous lol
I've seen numerous people ask about this but it's always either ignored or put down. I just want to understand once and for all, since I constantly see screenshots of folks running Omnirom that have the white accents as opposed to blue throughout the system theme. I'm pretty sure some screenshots from the Omnirom developers themselves I've seen even have this. Though all nightlies I've downloaded have had the blue so I'm incredibly confused. I prefer the consistent white. Can someone clear this up for me?
gkassee37 said:
I've seen numerous people ask about this but it's always either ignored or put down. I just want to understand once and for all, since I constantly see screenshots of folks running Omnirom that have the white accents as opposed to blue throughout the system theme. I'm pretty sure some screenshots from the Omnirom developers themselves I've seen even have this. Though all nightlies I've downloaded have had the blue so I'm incredibly confused. I prefer the consistent white. Can someone clear this up for me?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Statusbar and such are white. Things that use the "default" Holo themes (Settings is a good example of this) will still be blue. This is by design from Google - same as their own official firmwares.
Changing these aspects will also impact any app running on the system, and as a result, we will *not* be changing the default configuration Google implemented here.
At some point we'll bring back theme engine support (not necessarily the classic T-Mobile theme engine, we're considering the ChameleonOS theme engine as an alternative) that allows the defaults to be overridden, but until then, we can't risk that changing the defaults will have unintended consequences (such as the app breakage that resulted from Samsung mucking with the system themes on some of their devices.)
@gkassee37 -- I really, really dislike that blue. Always have, for some reason.
I wish it was as easy as just globally replacing one hex code with another. It's pretty much a "one-liner" to do -- just one command typed at a terminal. Arguably not a trivial command line to craft, but still not a complex task.
While I'm an "in the code" kind of guy, I totally respect the work of the better "themers" out there as there are so many things they need to check and make sure all are still usable, not just looking good.
Let's say that you did just replace all the ugly blue codes with shiny, bright white.
What happens if you have an element on a white background?
How do you tell that it is "on" or "active" or what have you? All of a sudden, it just disappears.
What if it isn't even in the "system" or a system app? You've got some third-party app that is depending on a core widget of some sort and is rendering it on a white background...
To do it right, you really have to look at each element in the UI and make sure that you have done something reasonable. I'll let the Google folks do that if it means that the OmniROM team can focus on a stable, fast, and usable ROM for my phone.
as much as I hate that blue.
jeffsf said:
@gkassee37 -- I really, really dislike that blue. Always have, for some reason.
I wish it was as easy as just globally replacing one hex code with another. It's pretty much a "one-liner" to do -- just one command typed at a terminal. Arguably not a trivial command line to craft, but still not a complex task.
While I'm an "in the code" kind of guy, I totally respect the work of the better "themers" out there as there are so many things they need to check and make sure all are still usable, not just looking good.
Let's say that you did just replace all the ugly blue codes with shiny, bright white.
What happens if you have an element on a white background?
How do you tell that it is "on" or "active" or what have you? All of a sudden, it just disappears.
What if it isn't even in the "system" or a system app? You've got some third-party app that is depending on a core widget of some sort and is rendering it on a white background...
To do it right, you really have to look at each element in the UI and make sure that you have done something reasonable. I'll let the Google folks do that if it means that the OmniROM team can focus on a stable, fast, and usable ROM for my phone.
as much as I hate that blue.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yup. That's pretty much it. A number of those blue items are highly likely to get rendered against white by an app. End result could be really nasty. (Many of the themes out there break horribly with some apps... And from memory, the "all white" themes have a bad habit of being the most likely to break.)
Greetings people,
As TW Lollipop has landed, most of the devs have been trying to brew ROMs for the people, and unfortunately there is no control as what MODS should be included, i have found it terribly difficult to choose a ROM as it didnt feel normal to use mods that made no sense (or at least have a minority audience).
Particularly,what annoys me a lot, is dealing with the mods that change the visual space available, now there is no need to blame devs here at all, but rather Sammy should be here to blame for just trying to make a normal UI into a complex useless UI in to their own, and they have effed it up with the new Notifications Drawer.
While i noticed a lot of devs have found options/parameters to change the view of the notification drawer, a lot of ROMs include a very annoying feature called Quicklaunch, however im pretty sure a lot of people like it. While Quicklaunch in my personal opinion sucks, it looks way better compared to S-Finder and Quick Launch buttons. I personally lack any kind programming/scripting skills, but luckily, thanks to a nice dev called @alfaroolg with a similar taste, he brewed it for me straight away.
This is what i planned on seeing:
Remove S-Finder and Quick Connect
Remove 3minit Quicklaunch
Remove the Brightness Bar
Currently, im on @g00h s Note 4 Port, which makes me believe that the Brightness Bar is not removable anymore as i could not find the setting on either the Display settings or Notification Panel editor, HOWEVER, the brightness bar disappears if under 5% battery so you cant push the brightness up, and to my surprise, found out sammy screwed up adopting to the Lollipop rules.
This is how it looks without S-Finder/QuickConnect and Quicklaunch: First Pic
This is what happens with the same configuration, under 5% battery after the Brightness Bar disappears: Second Pic
And to my surprise, if there are any Notifications going on, things return well: Third Pic
Is this a general issue Sammy mustve skipped? quite an eye catcher. Also, the area where the brightness bar disappears, usually Notifications get the place, and the first Notification is not Swipeable, i end up clicking the notification rather then removing it, and it can result in very unpleasant moments.
did google actually put energy into choosing this puke horrid blinding green color for the dialer, it shows their idiocy
any way to change the color WITHOUT a new dialer. and no not upgrading past 7.0. why?
dont want it. just want my white dialer back. not green. dafuq were they thinking. at least give options to customize something simple.
I absolutely hate when people decide for the masses but dont give simple customizing options to suit that person. we do have to look at the screen, you know that right DF google.
bump
With a Samsung you use a different theme to change that.
With a Pixel no clue... may be no easy way?
Google still thinks people like the puke pastel crap... us deplorables don't.
Has anyone found a way to turn this feature off? I have read on some phones it's called Material You but I don't see that on our phone. I'm pretty sure I've checked every setting and I cannot find a way to stop Google apps and a few others from theming based on colors in my wallpaper. I find this very annoying and frankly it makes the apps ugly.