Android M Comes With A 'Dark' Theme

Android M comes with a ‘Dark’ theme

BY Rajesh Pandey

Rajesh Pandey

Rajesh is a 26-year old freelance writer from Kolkata, India. He loves to tinker around with his Android devices and flash custom ROMs on them....

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Published 28 May 2015

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With Lollipop, Google ditched its dark background and switched to a white one. Many Android users longed for a dark theme in Lollipop, and Google is finally giving it to them with Android M.

In the just released developer preview of Android M, Google has added the option to change the Material Design theme to ‘Dark’. In addition, it has also added an ‘Automatic’ mode that presumably changes the theme depending on the time of the day.

: Certain parts of the UI still have a white background

: Some system apps still need to be updated for the ‘Dark’ theme

The option to change the theme in Android M is located under Developer Options. The latter option first needs to be activated first by going into Settings and tapping on ‘Build Number’ 7 times.