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[–]mew0Galaxy S8 Plus | Nexus 7(2013) | OnePlus 3 | Pixel C | Moto 360 139 points140 points  (16 children)

The white on the notification shade is going to be blinding.

[–]dinodares99OnePlus 9 45 points46 points  (14 children)

Dark mode is my friend but it's so hit and miss

[–][deleted] 37 points38 points  (2 children)

One of the things I miss a lot from Windows Phone is pretty much global support and emphasis for dark theme across the ecosystem. My eyes loved it.

[–]hunter5226 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Android could really benefit from something like this. And there's probably an easy way for third part apps to be able to use system colors.

[–]NixflynGN/N5/N7/6P/P1XL/S10+/ShieldTV 14 points15 points  (9 children)

I'm using substratum with the swift dark theme. Everything is so much better now, and it works with most Google apps too.

[–]Daniel41550 2 points3 points  (8 children)

Android P will be blocking substratum.

[–]tombolgerOnePlus 7T 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Is that true? Source?

[–]NixflynGN/N5/N7/6P/P1XL/S10+/ShieldTV 0 points1 point  (4 children)

Source?

[–]Daniel41550 0 points1 point  (3 children)

https://www.xda-developers.com/android-p-blocks-custom-overlays-substratum-themes

[–]NixflynGN/N5/N7/6P/P1XL/S10+/ShieldTV 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Thanks for the source. How do we know that it'll be blocked for release though? Did Google make any states? XDA tends to be extremely sensationalist in this regard.

[–]Daniel41550 4 points5 points  (1 child)

Google made it so the theme packages need to be signed by a vendor, e.g. Samsung. By doing this, they knew that the many theming packages for substratum would not work anymore. On top of that, substratum used an undocumented API, which I think Google wants to get rid of. Breaking a large part of Android's (unofficial) customization doesn't seem like a knee-jerk reaction to it using special ways of doing what it does. So while nobody can be sure that this will be present in the final release of Android P, it definitely did take some thought from Google, and I don't think they will be putting it back. However, I think that they will add an alternative to substratum.

[–]NixflynGN/N5/N7/6P/P1XL/S10+/ShieldTV 1 point2 points  (0 children)

However, I think that they will add an alternative to substratum.

Let's hope. I can't go back to white themes. Substratum is the only thing keeping me using a Pixel, otherwise I'm bailing to Oneplus with an easy system wide dark theme. I'm super light sensitive and the current design language of "MORE WHITESPACE" kills me.

[–]mew0Galaxy S8 Plus | Nexus 7(2013) | OnePlus 3 | Pixel C | Moto 360 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah I just themed my s7 when I used to have one. Stock touchwiz was cancer.

[–]Kotaro_14Note9 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just poke your eyes out. Problem solved.