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Mahmud0808 / ColorBlendr

An Android app for customizing Material You colors on devices with Android 12+. It lets you tweak accent colors, background saturation, and more for a personalized look.
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I feel like I'm misunderstanding either this app or material you in general #61

Closed russianspy1234 closed 5 months ago

russianspy1234 commented 5 months ago

The colors picked don't seem to come from the wallpaper. They change when the wallpaper changes, but like, random colors are included. Here is an example wallpaper: u9rkbhc8ofpc1

And here is what the app pulled: Screenshot_20240320-144805

Where did the blue come from? It seems like every time the wallpaper changes, I can go into the app and one of the options will be accurate, but it's not always the same one. I'm trying to get it so that the most prominent color in my wallpaper is the accent color / what colors my quick setting toggles.

Mahmud0808 commented 5 months ago

Screenshot_2024-03-29-19-53-09-429_com drdisagree colorblendr

For me it's picking only one color from the wallpaper you just gave, and that's correct behavior. In your case, ColorBlendr is probably getting killed from background, so it can't detect that you have changed your wallpaper. Try changing wallpaper while the app is running. Also make sure to enable auto start and disable battery optimization of the app.

russianspy1234 commented 5 months ago

Screenshot_2024-03-29-19-53-09-429_com drdisagree colorblendr

For me it's picking only one color from the wallpaper you just gave, and that's correct behavior. In your case, ColorBlendr is probably getting killed from background, so it can't detect that you have changed your wallpaper. Try changing wallpaper while the app is running. Also make sure to enable auto start and disable battery optimization of the app.

Hmm. The service is definitely running, I even left the notification enabled. My wallpaper gets changed on a schedule by an app, this one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bryanwalsh.redditwallpaper2 Could that cause issues?

Mahmud0808 commented 5 months ago

That shouldn't cause any issue if ColorBlendr is actually running in background.

russianspy1234 commented 5 months ago

That shouldn't cause any issue if ColorBlendr is actually running in background.

I can tell that it is because the pitch black theme is working

Mahmud0808 commented 5 months ago

Do you see the colors changing when wallpaper changes? Does the UI color reflect the color selected in ColorBlendr after wallpaper is changed? Because in your screenshot, UI is green where selected color is blue. Which indicates app wasn't running in background when wallpaper changed.

russianspy1234 commented 5 months ago

OK so I'm still trying to figure it out. I think it might be related to the wallpaper changing while the screen is off. I turned off all battery optimizations for this app, but it seems it still does not update if my wallpaper changer app changes it while the screen is off. I think I might have taken the screenshot while experimenting so it is indeed possible that it was off while I took it, sorry about that.