I know this was discussed a bit before i remember talking ab

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I know this was discussed a bit before i remember talking about it in the dev preview but did anything ever update from what the default theme should be for a compose only app I currently use ``` lt style name= Theme My App parent= android Theme Material NoActionBar gt ``` I think Chris Banes was talking about this sort of stuff last but yeah Just curious if theres a way to use non appcompat theme so no appcompat dependency but have a DayNight theme because I don t want to bring in appcompat but it looks like Theme Material doesn t have any daynight variation I think

andrew · Answer

Realistically you can use v21 Material since compose is v21+ just setting up day night resource qualifiers

Colton Idle · Answer

Wouldn t that mean that my launch theme androidx splash screen can t adapt to day night though right now if i launch my app the bright white in the launch theme is blinding even though the phone is in night mode I was able to fix that when using appcompat dayNight

Colton Idle · Answer

So now my design team has a bug opened against my app and im not sure what to do upside down face

andrew · Answer

Create day night resource qualifiers for that too

andrew · Answer

That s what I m doing anyway

andrew · Answer

``` lt style name= Theme RealPage Raul Base parent= Theme AppCompat DayNight NoActionBar gt lt item name= android windowBackground gt FFFFFFFF lt item gt lt item name= android windowLightStatusBar tools targetApi= m gt true lt item gt lt item name= android windowLightNavigationBar tools targetApi= o mr1 gt true lt item gt lt style gt lt style name= Theme RealPage Raul parent= Theme RealPage Raul Base gt lt item name= android statusBarColor gt android color transparent lt item gt lt item name= android navigationBarColor gt android color transparent lt item gt lt style gt lt style name= Theme RealPage Raul Splash parent= Theme SplashScreen gt lt item name= postSplashScreenTheme gt style Theme RealPage Raul lt item gt lt item name= windowSplashScreenBackground gt FFFFFFFF lt item gt lt item name= android windowSplashScreenBrandingImage tools targetApi= s gt drawable ui splash realpage logo lt item gt lt item name= android statusBarColor gt android color transparent lt item gt lt item name= android navigationBarColor gt android color transparent lt item gt lt item name= android windowLightStatusBar tools targetApi= m gt true lt item gt lt item name= android windowLightNavigationBar tools targetApi= o mr1 gt true lt item gt lt style gt ```

andrew · Answer

``` lt style name= Theme RealPage Raul Base parent= Theme AppCompat DayNight NoActionBar gt lt item name= android windowBackground gt FF202737 lt item gt lt item name= android windowLightStatusBar tools targetApi= m gt false lt item gt lt item name= android windowLightNavigationBar tools targetApi= o mr1 gt false lt item gt lt style gt lt style name= Theme RealPage Raul Splash parent= Theme SplashScreen gt lt item name= postSplashScreenTheme gt style Theme RealPage Raul lt item gt lt item name= windowSplashScreenBackground gt FF202737 lt item gt lt item name= android windowSplashScreenBrandingImage tools targetApi= s gt drawable ui splash realpage logo lt item gt lt item name= android windowLightStatusBar tools targetApi= m gt false lt item gt lt item name= android windowLightNavigationBar tools targetApi= o mr1 gt false lt item gt lt style gt ```

Colton Idle · Answer

But you re using AppCompat

Colton Idle · Answer

I don t have appCompat in my app

andrew · Answer

You can swap that out for Theme Material

Colton Idle · Answer

That s what I m saying though Theme Material doesn t have DayNight

Colton Idle · Answer

Unless Im missing something here

andrew · Answer

Define your base theme in both values and values night

andrew · Answer

And the parent will be Theme Material Light for normal values

andrew · Answer

And for values night use Theme Material

Colton Idle · Answer

Ah gotcha Lemme try to check that out when I get back to my desk

andrew · Answer

Cool beans thumbsup skin tone 2

Chris Sinco [G] · Answer

You can also depend on the Material library for views which has DayNight themes <https material io develop android theming dark|https material io develop android theming dark>

Chris Sinco [G] · Answer

Because yeah I ve seen that bright flash as well without a proper Activity theme mapped to some dark colors grimacing

Colton Idle · Answer

Interesting So out of the box tho For compose there s no daynight theme available Maybe I ll file a bug I kinda don t know if it s purposeful or not from the Android team I suppose

andrew · Answer

Compose itself is independent of the view system so there is no theme there

andrew · Answer

You can use whatever theme you need to tailoring it to how you need to suit your app

Albert Chang · Answer

Colton Idle · Answer

Cool So it seems like nothing has really changed on this front

Albert Chang · Answer

Even if a DayNight theme is added now it can only be used on Android 13+ as it must be added to Android platform itself instead of a support library

Colton Idle · Answer

Ah alright `android ` means it comes from the platform

Colton Idle · Answer

has material been around that long already

andrew · Answer

Yes since Lolipop so around 2014

Colton Idle · Answer

wow so material is around for 50 of androids lifetime roughly insane time flies