Android Dark Theme

Updated 25 July 2019

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A dark theme is a low-light UI that displays mostly dark surfaces.

Dark theme has many benefits:

To support dark theme you need to inherit DayNight theme:

You can also use MaterialComponents’ dark theming:

Here are the two most important theme attributes to know about:

On devices running Android 9 or earlier, the recommended theme options are:

When running on Android Q, the recommended options are different, to allow the user to override the system default:

Note that if the user selects Light, then Battery Saver will not change that setting.

Each of the options map directly to one of the AppCompat.DayNight modes:

To switch the theme, call AppCompatDelegate.setDefaultNightMode().

You can create a helper class like below to toggle the Dark Mode :

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