With the google launcher on the pixel 2: if you have a black wallpaper the theme turns black, if you have a lighter wallpaper the theme goes with white theme, i would like to see a live wallpaper that shifts from a light background durning the day and at night the live wallpaper goes dark, so this way i can see it in the sunlight but at night its soft black and easy on the eyes. I know other launchers give you these settings, but would really like to see this work with the google launcher. any one have a live wallpaper or mod that can make this happen with the google launcher.
bumpaudio said:
With the google launcher on the pixel 2: if you have a black wallpaper the theme turns black, if you have a lighter wallpaper the theme goes with white theme, i would like to see a live wallpaper that shifts from a light background durning the day and at night the live wallpaper goes dark, so this way i can see it in the sunlight but at night its soft black and easy on the eyes. I know other launchers give you these settings, but would really like to see this work with the google launcher. any one have a live wallpaper or mod that can make this happen with the google launcher.
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This might work.
Create a folder and place a light and and dark wallpaper in there.
Download Muzei en set the source to the folder you created.
Set the refresh time to 12 hours or something. And you'll have a decent interval.
FYI - the Pixel 2 reverts to a light theme anytime a live wallpaper is used. Even if the wallpaper is dark in color.
PuffDaddy_d said:
FYI - the Pixel 2 reverts to a light theme anytime a live wallpaper is used. Even if the wallpaper is dark in color.
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Unless you use Andromeda (rootless)
PuffDaddy_d said:
FYI - the Pixel 2 reverts to a light theme anytime a live wallpaper is used. Even if the wallpaper is dark in color.
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No it doesn't I'm using a live dark wallpaper and its dark right now AMOLED live wallpaper if anyone's interested
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btaylor545 said:
No it doesn't I'm using a live dark wallpaper and its dark right now AMOLED live wallpaper if anyone's interested
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Yeah, I later realized it's only for certain live wallpapers. Not sure why though
Anyone know of a dark theme for Google Voice and Google Home? They are too white and bright at night.
You could try "Material Islands" live wallpaper. It changes from light to dark throughout the day
If you are rooted there is a sort of trick.
There is an app called "Pixel Launcher Mods" (here), and when you turn on night light you can force the dark theme.
Then simply set auto night light at some time, for example in the evening, so it will auto-shift to night light and also dark theme without have to change wallpaper.
I find this very useful.
For those who aren't on root and like to use a live wallpaper that won't apply the dark theme, but still want it (like me), an okay, but sometimes jarring alternative is to set Invert Colors in the pulldown quick tiles and just manually turn it on when needed. It's not the best solution, but it's something.
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Hey can anyone make "us" a live wallpaper like the cyanogenmod themed one but with a green color? Right now I have the "Clean Theme" for the green highlights and lockscreen and the clear status bar with Kspec's battery as well as the the androidguy launcher morph that glows green the whole time. Im thinking the dark or light background with the themed green live wallpaper would make it complete. I appreciate it guys.
My fault guys, I didnt even think to put [REQUEST] in the title until after I posted this. I do apologize.
re: Nexus live wallpaper
There's one on the market: Nexus Mod live wallpaper. The normal version is included with Cyanogen and has a set of themes but the paid version on Market lets you choose colours and backgrounds, though this is said to be coming to the free version soon.
Can anyone recommend a theme that I can use at night, in bed and when out under the starry skies? It needs to be very dark, mostly black and red (including message boxes, icons and fonts), so as to not ruin a dark adapted eye.
maybe you should change the brightness of your display ?
hmmm at the moment there is no theme i know
but you could use a black wallpaper ?!maybe someone knows such a theme ?
search the forum for black gtx theme for CHT ..it is the best for this usage i found ..
jonas2295 said:
maybe you should change the brightness of your display ?
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I use Lumos v.10 for that, but even at the lowest level any white on the screen is intolerably bright to a dark adapted eye. ATM I use a red acetate screen cover to tone things down a bit.
black gtx theme for CHT ..it is the best for this usage i found ..
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Not bad, but the highlight effects count against it a bit.
I think perhaps the Sencity theme would be better, if only I could change the white on it to red. I am using Dinik's Anastasia for my day theme currently.
Maybe somebody could create an "Astro" Theme with only black and red as colours.
Would be a nice thing.
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linux150
Hi All,
I have been trying some themes for some time. They all have cons and pros. Sometimes, I love the lock screen of the theme but the icons are too dark or vice-versa. So, what I am curious is: Is there a way to use a theme's only lock screen along with my default theme or with any other theme? What I am trying to use is the lock screen of "sd-Black" theme.
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Unfortunately, right now the themes are an "all or nothing" thing. It's been that way since the theme store launched sadly.
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Devhux said:
Unfortunately, right now the themes are an "all or nothing" thing. It's been that way since the theme store launched sadly.
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Sad to hear that. It would be nice to customize themes accordingly.
Thank you Devhux.
iso_9001 said:
Hi All,
I have been trying some themes for some time. They all have cons and pros. Sometimes, I love the lock screen of the theme but the icons are too dark or vice-versa. So, what I am curious is: Is there a way to use a theme's only lock screen along with my default theme or with any other theme? What I am trying to use is the lock screen of "sd-Black" theme.
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You can run a 3rd party launcher and then run an icon pack. However, you're still stuck with the notification area theme and the rest of the colors (ie - messaging app, menus, etc...).
I wanted a nice black background with very subdued clock and non-flashy icons for camera/phone on my lock screen. I also wanted nice black notification dropdown and black everything. Tried SD-black but the color on the clock for the lock screen killed it, for me. Turns out you can't mod your icons with icon packs with the default launcher. But by using Nova launcher, MINU black edition theme, and Candycons icon pack, my UI is how I want it, the lock screen is how I want it, and I use the icons I like.
You can always change the background on both home screen and lock screen, too. Regardless.
Str0ntium said:
You can run a 3rd party launcher and then run an icon pack. However, you're still stuck with the notification area theme and the rest of the colors (ie - messaging app, menus, etc...).
I wanted a nice black background with very subdued clock and non-flashy icons for camera/phone on my lock screen. I also wanted nice black notification dropdown and black everything. Tried SD-black but the color on the clock for the lock screen killed it, for me. Turns out you can't mod your icons with icon packs with the default launcher. But by using Nova launcher, MINU black edition theme, and Candycons icon pack, my UI is how I want it, the lock screen is how I want it, and I use the icons I like.
You can always change the background on both home screen and lock screen, too. Regardless.
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Thank you Str0ntium.
Actually, that lock screen is what I want But it turns out, I can't have it apart from the theme. I am using default theme and icons (I like them) but I changed the backgrounds with something dark.
Hello
When I purchased my Pixel 2 I used to have a true black theme when using dark wallpapers.
Since upgrading to 8.1 the dark theme is smoked black (a bit translucent). (E.g. I'm now in Tapatalk writing this I pull down the quick settings and I can see this text behind it).
Is this something that really changed in 8.1 or I have a bug or something?
I can't remember if the settings app was black before...but at the moment is light. Same thing with the Google Feed cards, dark wallpaper but white cards.
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Not a bug, this is something Google changed in 8.1 - solid black changed to a rather meh slightly transparent black.
You can use Substratum to change it back to a solid black if you want (though a lot of black themes seem to have irritating glitches with at least some notifications, so some trial and error may be needed).
The settings app was always white. You do need to use a 3rd party tool to change that.
I don't use Google Feed, so can't answer that last one.
Thanks. This week I've tried modifying this using the Andromeda and substratum etc. But I didn't liked it because the notifications were also changing the colour etc. But mainly because of the customisation, I'll prefer to keep things as stock as possible.
Anyway thanks for confirming this was an actual change in 8.1!
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Hi,
Do you also get a purple effect while on lock screen after pie update? And it goes back to normal only while unlocked ?
I'm thinking about reset the phone already...
That is an android pie feature.
It depends on the wallpaper main colour. Try to change it and you will see that it changes.
Pantumaca said:
That is an android pie feature.
It depends on the wallpaper main colour. Try to change it and you will see that it changes.
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Hum, seems that it mixture the wallpaper color with purple.. On my Pixel 3 it didn't happen, don't think it's android feature..
zopostyle said:
Hum, seems that it mixture the wallpaper color with purple.. On my Pixel 3 it didn't happen, don't think it's android feature..
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It's implemented by HTC, found a wallpaper that it doesn't happen.
I use the day/night automatic change wallpaper feature.
During the day, I have configured one with red and orange colours so the effect is red/pink.
During night I have configured one with blue and the effect is blue (light blue, in fact).
I think is quite cool this effect.
i don't get it can you show me a video of this effect
Zero2098 said:
i don't get it can you show me a video of this effect
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Try the following atachments "tech" as your lockscreen wallpaper and the other one(Harley Quinn) as your "desktop" wallpaper.
Then lock your phone... You'll see it get purple..