If I wanted my widget background to be Material Yo...

# glance

[Nat Strangerweather]

If I wanted my widget background to be Material You colors, how would I go about it/ I currently have :

Row( modifier = GlanceModifier.fillMaxSize()){}

But that gives me a transparent background. If I add a background modifier, I have to hardcode my color. My Buttons in the Row are Material You when I don't hardcode a color.

[Chrimaeon]

how do you initialize the MaterialTheme? you can use MaterialTheme.colorScheme.background if you initialized the Theme with dynamic colors.

https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/designsystems/material3

[Nat Strangerweather]

Aaah I see! Thanks that's perfect!

[Nat Strangerweather]

Actually, what do you mean when you say "if you initialized the Theme with dynamic colors"? I am using the theme as it was set up out of the box in my project. My background is now white, whatever wallpaper I use. Is there something extra I need to set up? @Chrimaeon

[Chrimaeon]

So follow the link I posted - you need to setup a dynamic color scheme.

[bbade_]

There are some glance demos that show how to do this. Everything in this directory is intended to serve as an example for how to use various glance concepts. Caveat: they're a bit less refined than the examples in our developer.android.com documentation. https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:glance/g[…]on-tests/demos/src/main/java/androidx/glance/appwidget/demos/

[bbade_]

Specifically, this demo has examples of material 3 dynamic, and then user provided m2 and m3 schemes

https://cs.android.com/androidx/platform/frameworks/support/+/androidx-main:glance/g[…]ava/androidx/glance/appwidget/demos/DefaultColorsAppWidget.kt

[Nat Strangerweather]

Many thanks for this @bbade_ , that's hugely helpful. I also found this: https://developer.android.com/jetpack/compose/glance/theme which solved the problem for me. Basically, I needed to use GlanceTheme.colors.primaryContainer and to wrap my widget in GlanceTheme {}.