As ROG is my 1st mobile with AMOLED display, I started to care about dark themes and daily use apps.
I found this: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11uPz3TYQtjmeL4ayQfNiRiR_uQnN-1Mt/view?usp=drivesdk
It should be Messenger Lite with Black theme, but it is not official, so I am quite sceptical about this. Is anyone using it or used before to claim it is ok to install?
im a huge fan of dark mode where possible and facebook messenger blinds me everytime i have to open it personally id wish people would just text but i have friends that money on phone calls / texts is a bit much so have to live with facebook messenger too
I am currently using Dark Messenger Lite version. Its very interesting app in dark mode
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is there a widget like pure messenger that can bring txt,emails,facebook,and twitter messages to a widget? or is there something that comes close?
Get launcher pro plus, it comes with widgets and has what you're looking for.
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Launcher pro doesn't have a widget Like that. It's friends widget only handed twitter and fb. And it wont notify you of fb comments either. I use LP and pure messenger. If LP friends widget would display comments I would use it. But until then pure messenger is all we have.
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Handcent comes to mind and is very nice. It is also free!
i really just want a widget that brings txt,email,and gmail together...would be nice to have face book and twitter messages (not updates) in there too
Looking for a pure messenger alternative too, every time I add it (scrollable), it's blank
Executive Assistant is an alternative but does not support exchange yet
khanam said:
Executive Assistant is an alternative but does not support exchange yet
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Tried that, gawd it's awful.
birkoffsjunk said:
Looking for a pure messenger alternative too, every time I add it (scrollable), it's blank
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And did you enable the scrollable mode ???
Scrollable mode works fine. I use it everyday since Pure messenger support it.
I use pure and have zero probs. Did you download K9 for pure? That allows you to use pop and gmail for emails. Is it that ur tired of pure and want something else?
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And did you enable the scrollable mode ???
Scrollable mode works fine. I use it everyday since Pure messenger support it.
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Turns out it's a problem with LP+ & Zeam, had the same problem with the new Touiteur widget, ADW works fine...
I look for an other Messenger Widget, too, that can show me SMS, Emails and Calls in one widget. I Used Pure Messenger for a while. But since an update of K9 for pure they didn't work together. It always comes a Message that i need the Version 3.390-109 of K9. But i have the new one installed.
The stock Hangouts is so bright, would like something darker. I tried Sliding Messaging Pro but it just doesn't feel right. I read that there's a black out version of Hangouts but from what I've seen, it's too dark.
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The stock Hangouts is so bright, would like something darker. I tried Sliding Messaging Pro but it just doesn't feel right. I read that there's a black out version of Hangouts but from what I've seen, it's too dark.
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Haven't seen grey hangouts, i've seen both the default and blacked out version you speak of. Surely there are themes or ROMs available that mask something like that, making it easier to view. But for stock, I think we're SOL.
FoxHound rom has a Gray-ish Hangouts. I would really like having that zip, it goes great with Aviate launcher. But I can't seem to find the zip file, have you had any luck finding one yet?
I love the material design messenger app, but the randomly assigned colors piss me off. Is there a modded apk or any way to set customize the background color? I would have thought google would have made in an option.
The only way you're going to be able to mod that is by decompiling the messenger apk and going from there. Seems like it would be a lot of work though. I could take a look it at but I doubt I have the know how in order to do it.
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Crappy Half-Solution
I've been watching this thread hoping for a more elegant (i.e. code-based solution) but for the time being I found a sort-of work around. First, uninstall the messenger app. Then say you want to change Person A from showing up orange to showing up purple, just for the sake of example. Google image search purple screen (or whatever, the point is to get a plain purple image of a shade similar to the app's). Download the pic to your phone, change the contact's picture to the plain color picture. Reinstall app, and open it up. Person A's conversation should now be purple. It should even be safe to change the contact's picture back, the point is to have the plain color photo as the contact picture when you install and first open up the app. You should be able to change as many contacts to whichever conversation colors (that the app comes preloaded with) you wish. Some notes: I did this on an AT&T galaxy s 4 active running kit kat 4.4.2 with the google messenger app being used as default sms app. My motivation was my gf saw her's was the orange and wanted to figure out a way to switch it to pink, lol. When I figured this method out to do just that, I changed a friend's convo color from green to red, and then an additional friend's from purple to green in order to verify. Again maybe this doesn't work all the time, or maybe it doesn't work on your device or maybe it's too much of a chore, but if you're looking to change conversation colors in this (otherwise very well put-together) app, this is the only way I've heard of so far. Hope this helps :good:
I don't know if it matters but I'm rooted stuck on touchwiz (locked bootloaders are a terrible thing, but at least it's de-odexed and I can mod it myself) and I use root browser to convert the google messenger app to a system app, because I like it better than Samsung's sms anyway.
So on my Nexus 5 the Google Messenger app doesn't show my conversation threads! Does anyone know a fix or an alternative SMS app that's similar to it? I really love the different material design colors it has for separate conversations
Can you post a screen shot to see what you are talking about?(and black out any sensitive information)
I'm using Textra
Remember everyone, the stock messenger is in the play store.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.messaging
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzcTJHzsBL3KZzhrUzVTSF9rbWM/edit?usp=docslist_api
Dark version
Messengers consistency to display messages gets better when battery saver is switched on. For some reason the animations cause it to glitch and not display the conversation thread. I'm happy with it for now but I hope it gets fixed soon.
Are you on a ROM? Make sure you don't have privacy guard enabled on it.
So I heard recently that as of the newest versions both Facebook and Messenger have blocked the ability to theme theme via Substratum. Does anyone have more info on this? I feel like we should be kicking up a storm to get them to try and change their mind or something. They don't seem to have added any new feature or anything that requires them to stop theming, it seems like they literally just decided on behalf on hundreds of thousands of Android themers that we're not allowed to theme their stuff anymore.
Anyways, ramble over, any info would be appreciated.
Replying to this for great justice. I've gotten Swift Black's dark theme to work and apply briefly only a handful of times, and it's painfully frustrating that massively used apps like Facebook or any of Google's apps don't just provide a native dark mode option, especially when so much of the smartphone world is being brought to us on AMOLED/LED and just on efficiency alone.
I can deal with the main app not necessarily working in dark mode, but disallowing Messenger makes me crazy. Allo, Hangouts, Android Messages, and almost every other app I use work with the themer just fine. Staring at a white screen at night when replying to messages is so unappealing. :\
I really hope it gets unblocked, or someone else can suggest a way to get dark mode from another source. MAJOR kudos if someone can (and without root )
I've stopped using Facebook Messenger all together for this very reason not only is it annoying to have all the extra **** piled on top of it but now I can't see him at either **** that
I use "Frost for Facebook" as an alternative, because it has a visually nice dark mode. It's not as good as the main app tho.
Yeah, I wish they weren't so hard nosed about theming
So...
Goodbye eyesight? ;--;
It's more to do with them changing resources and preventing perfect decompilations, not to stop theming through overlays as a whole. If you're clean about your overlays, overlays can still theme, unlike some variants of Play Store where overlays will not affect English.