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Android O: The Reddit AMA's 8 most interesting reveals |
July 20, 2017
As the Android O release date nears, Google’s busy engineering team still found time on Wednesday to hop onto Reddit for their annual AMA. Users submitted a barrage of questions, and here are the most interesting things we learned:Dark mode isn’t coming, so stop asking
Google teased us with dark mode on both the Android N and O developer previews, but it’s not making it into the full release anytime soon. The reason? “Reliable and consistent theming is hard.”Numerous questions about themes and dark mode stacked up on the Reddit board, and Android engineer Alan Viverette addressed it thusly: “There are technical and logistical issues with theming. The technical side is largely solved in O with Runtime Resource Overlay support (a Sony framework that allows the system to modify the look and feel of an app while it is running); however, we still don’t have stable APIs for describing what can be themed or adequate ways to verify that existing applications properly support theming.”To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/3209644/android/android-o-the-reddit-amas-8-most-interesting-reveals.html#tk.rss_all
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