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CityZenApp / AndroidApp

CityZen Android App, OpenStreetMap base-map
http://cityzenapp.co/
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Design: dark theme development #100

Open rskikuli opened 6 years ago

rskikuli commented 6 years ago

I don't know if this should be the case also for CityZen, but I was wondering it it makes sense to have a dark theme design version of CityZen app. In my understanding it is a general trend to offer the option to users to choose between dark or light theme versions. What do you think? Should we also work on a dark theme for the app?

AndyScherzinger commented 6 years ago

In general this might be a good idea. Newer Android versions offer this as in a day/night feature within Android while some apps then give the users the option to lock-in day or night theme or leave it to the operating system where Android will switch app between day/night theme (which the app then needs to implement first of course). This is typical for navigation app (and makes sense while driving in a car).

So this could be implemented but might not be that big of an advantage (for car users). Some users especially with AMOLED displays might prefer a dark theme to save battery time.

So if one might want to implement this it is mainly a matter of implementing the 2 themes within the app and the efforts necessary highly depend on the backwards compatibility...