Anysoftkeyboard: AMOLED/black & white theme

[swedneck]

There is currently a black theme that has some colors in it, so it should hopefully be easy to just copy that theme and make it completely black & white.

[uudruid74]

Why black and white? Black and red or black and green wood actually use a lot less power than white

[swedneck]

Because black and white is what most people associate with AMOLED, and looks much better than black and green/red. It's partly about saving a little extra battery, but also about looking nice.

[uudruid74]

Colorless doesn't look good at all. I would say maybe black an Amber. Or black followed by whatever the current accent color is, if that can be found programmatically

[swedneck]

You're free to prefer other aesthetics, but there are a lot of people who like white on black "AMOLED" themes.

[uudruid74]

AMOLED themes are defined by preponderance of black. I don't believe you're allowed to speak for a lot of people for your preference to White. You speak for yourself only. Everyone else can speak with their own voice

[ilovelinux]

I think that an AMOLED theme like the Google's one is a must
I honestly don't like keyboards with red/green keys and the blue ones burn my eyes when I'm in the dark
Maybe I never seen a good keyboard layout with red/green keys

[menny]

In the next release, there will be "Power-Saving mode" theme. It's exactly this.

[Mikaela]

So this is hidden to power saving settings that have to be always enabled and then some disable checkboxes have to be removed?

I think ASK is getting more and more complicated whenever I search for features I am missing :(

PS. On AMOLED colours I have aquired preference to (obwiously black and) orange. See PUMPKIN for SwiftKey.

[uudruid74]

If you want it to switch when battery is low, thats under power-saving. An always-black theme exists (I use it) in the usual place, and you can add more as you did.

[Mikaela]

Do you mean Simple black glow ? I missed it until reading all the names after reading your comment. However that theme uses a lot of blue and thus doesn't seem very good for late night typing.

[uudruid74]

No. I mean Lean Dark. It's a black theme. Not to be confused with Lean Dark Grey

[Mikaela]

I don't know about lean dark, but the large keys version of it isn't black. I was using it until KISS Launcher update earlier today brought AMOLED Black theme and there was a noticable difference between it and ASK when something was entered to search bar.

Maybe theme descriptions should mention themes that are really black and AMOLED-friendly?

[uudruid74]

Wow. I apologize. I turned up my screen brightness and you are correct. It's not actually black. What's the point when there is already a dark grey??