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Browser Color Invert

Hello
Sorry my bad english
Is is possible of my galaxy the browser color invert backround dark and make the font white " INvert" color ?
Thanks and best regards from Austria

I would also like this. Reading on something like Tweetdeck with the dark greys and blues for background and white text is *much*easier on the eye (and better for the battery!)

+1 wanted to query this myself =)

I think this is a great idea... is there anyone able to do this?
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ADeadlySpoon said:
I think this is a great idea... is there anyone able to do this?
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Problem is with browser, the app is just generating the pages, its not the app that creates em (hence no xml change will get you this required result).
Only option, wait for aosp to come to our phone and then using aosp browser source code modify it somehow, or HEAVILY "smalify" the stock browser code

Daneshm90 said:
Problem is with browser, the app is just generating the pages, its not the app that creates em (hence no xml change will get you this required result).
Only option, wait for aosp to come to our phone and then using aosp browser source code modify it somehow, or HEAVILY "smalify" the stock browser code
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Ah right, well tbh I don't know that much about programming at all so I guess this is WAYY out of my league haha

CyanogenMod 6 has this feature. I'm not a dev, but it seems like if they could get it working on CM6, there's not reason a Galaxy S couldn't get this too. I don't think I can post links yet, but if you google cyanogen "browser color invert" you'll see what I'm talking about. But from looking on github it says "Common: Browser color invert (save battery on AMOLED screens) - Qualcomm" so maybe it's only for phones with Qualcomm processors?

any apps that can do system-wide color inversion?

something akin to iOS's high-contrast mode? I'm not talking about flashing a "dark" gapps. for example, I'm reading a PDF file at nighttime and the black-on-white hurts my eyes. I want to completely invert it, but the app only support native ebook filetypes .
please can someone point me in the right direction?
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Some custom rom have dark mode, otherwise not that I know of.

You can get apps that darken them entire screen with a dark filter, but no inversion app.
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Dark/Material themes google now launcher

I was wondering if anyone knew of a dark material google now launcher?
I tried the one here, http://nexus5.wonderhowto.com/how-t...s-5-with-darker-material-design-look-0158907/
And it didn't work properly, still had white background around the edge of the dark background, i'm assuming that it's because of our dpi and the nexus 5 dpi.
Getting a dark material google now launcher, would be amazing - means literally all the ui is dark then.
any help appreciated.

richfreestone said:
I was wondering if anyone knew of a dark material google now launcher?
I tried the one here, http://nexus5.wonderhowto.com/how-t...s-5-with-darker-material-design-look-0158907/
And it didn't work properly, still had white background around the edge of the dark background, i'm assuming that it's because of our dpi and the nexus 5 dpi.
Getting a dark material google now launcher, would be amazing - means literally all the ui is dark then.
any help appreciated.
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well in nova you can change the background of the page.
didn't tried this one yet.

Confused about theming

I'm new to Sony devices and was looking to get a dark theme set up on my new X Compact. After digging around I'm pretty confused abut the whole thing and thought I'd ask for some help here.
I'm looking for white text on a black background. I think I'm doing something wrong here, because I can't seem to find a white on black theme in the native Xperia themes, but I can find one for Substratum. This seems odd because my understanding was that Substratum was a port of Sony's Overlay Manager Service.
In any event, from my understanding I've got 2 options:
1) Install OmniROM and Substratum
2) Install CM13 and use the built in theme engine
I'm a bit reluctant to install CM13 as it's still in alpha, which leaves me with the OmniROM solution. Is this accurate? (I should note, that it's great to see so much development for the X Compact so soon after launch!)
Thanks so much for any help.

I am not sure what you mean when you say you can't find a theme with white text on black background. Unless you mean that you want the theme to be always black, even in the settings and similar apps. That isn't possible, because since Kitkat Android (at least for Xperia) has two modes: bright theme and dark theme. The settings are always bright. I tried myself to invert the bright theme making it dark, but far too many things get unreadable because they aren't 100% customisable.
Still if you want to give a try with a a dark theme you may want to try this one. It's free (and don;t worry, the link doesn't have any ad. It's from Google shortner): https://goo.gl/PHyqRH
If you don't like it you can simply uninstall it and try another one. There are tons of free black themes. personally I'll never go as far as unlocking the bootloader and install a custom ROM just to have some different themes. Also because apparently most of the support for custom ROMs is ending. Cyanogenmod closed, for example. It has been taken over by someone else, but it won't probably be the same thing.

Thanks so much for your help with this. The monochrome theme you directed me to has some dark elements for sure, but I was looking for a completely black background. To be honest, I've been a bit surprised at how much I'm bothered by the white backdrop, especially at night. I've been using a dark CM theme on another phone for years, and didn't really think that a small change like this would make such a difference to me.
I think you understand what I'm looking for, but just to confirm here are some links to the play store:
Black Background using CM13: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.blissroms.moelle.ddoverhauled
Black Background using Substratum: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.brit.swiftblack.layers

Nope. As I wrote the stock Android for Xperia doesn't support the dark panels on the bright themes. Or better, it's possible to put dark backgrounds in a bright theme, but after that far too many elements get unreadable. Dark text for starting, which can't be changed. The clock and SMS apps get quite messy for example.
The CM ROMs have its own customisation engine, different from the one Sony has implemented for the Xperia phones (and thus as far as I know their themes are not compatible). The same I believe applies to SubStratum, which I don't know. But I suppose you need root to install it. And also it may conflict with the Xperia customisation.
Still there are plenty of great themes that change the backgrounds to different colours or even images. They won't be totally dark, but they are a relief from the obnoxious pure white. Blue themes are usually the best for that purpose. Also the Golden themes are quite popular at the moment. This (still free) at least removes the white, replacing it with gold color: https://goo.gl/WK9yGm

First Phone.app (public beta) with dark theme released

Beside Messages and Contacts Google now pushed first public beta of Phone app which has dark theme enabled.
My Taimen's Phone app was just updated to version 26.0.221539659 publicbeta.
Opening animation is still white and there is a little lag when pressing Recent tab, but it is a good start.
It looks that Google is really trying to implement dark themes to applications, which are mostyl used, after they shoot themselves into their knee by admitting / stated that dark themes are saving battery...

Gregzi said:
Beside Messages and Contacts Google now pushed first public beta of Phone app which has dark theme enabled.
My Taimen's Phone app was just updated to version 26.0.221539659 publicbeta.
Opening animation is still white and there is a little lag when pressing Recent tab, but it is a good start.
It looks that Google is really trying to implement dark themes to applications, which are mostyl used, after they shoot themselves into their knee by admitting / stated that dark themes are saving battery...
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I just read the call screen feature is about to get switched on server-side for P2 & P2L in this build, too (Droid Life). Woot!:highfive:

I don't like very dark theme. Why should be everything dark. Ok saving battery but with dark looks terrible. Maybe who love dark just take any Android device till KitKat?
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Nettwerk said:
I don't like very dark theme. Why should be everything dark. Ok saving battery but with dark looks terrible. Maybe who love dark just take any Android device till KitKat?
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Dark theme is an option for people who don't like shining white on their eyes and not just to save battery. Remember its an "option". Nobody forced you to use it. No one will buy and use a outdated device and OS just for dark theme.

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Dark theme is an option for people who don't like shining white on their eyes and not just to save battery. Remember its an "option". Nobody forced you to use it. No one will buy and use a outdated device and OS just for dark theme.
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Right and it's not even set to dark by default.
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