Theming help
Theme
The global app theme.
- Material You: Android 12+ only. Use system wide Material theme. Does not take into account 'Color scheme' and 'Color contrast' preference
- Custom color: Android 11+ only. Allows to pick a custom color seed and generate a theme based on it taking into account 'Color scheme' and 'Color contrast' preferences. 'Select custom theme color' preference allows to change the color afterwards.
Not all colors give good results. 'Light theme mode' and 'Dark theme mode' settings can be useful to set background color to white or black if the generated background color is not ideal.
- Monochrome: a monochrome theme. Does not produce monochrome colors for 'Dynamic theme based on cover' setting
- App default: Android 12+ only. Default app theme. Currently equivalent yo 'Blue'. 'Color scheme' and 'Color contrast' preferences are taken into account
- named theme with titles (usually colors): use a theme with the specified color seed, taking into account 'Color scheme' preference. On Android 11+ 'Color contrast' pref is taken into account as well, as the theme is generated dynamically
Light theme mode
Tweak for light theme when it is active.
- 'Dark bars' results in dark top and bottom bars as well as dark themed Now Playing tab and Library album folder headers
- 'White backgrounds' can be useful if a custom color generated theme results in an unpleasant (too much tinted) window background color, or to make a fully white theme (particularly useful for e-ink displays).
Dark theme mode
Tweak for dark theme when it is active.
'Black background' options allow to make a partial of full black theme.
Color Scheme
For custom color app theme and named app themes, affects the set of generated theme colors from the base seed color of the theme.
Some schemes such as 'Expressive' and 'Fruit Salad' do not include the seed color.
When changing the color scheme, it might also a good idea to experiment with the 'Icons color' preference
to check which of neutral, primary, secondary or tertiary theme color works best.
The color scheme also affects colors generated for 'Dynamic theme based on cover' setting.
Color Contrast
Alter contrast of generated colors, from -10 to +10. 0 is default neutral contrast. Android 11+ only.
Icons color
Whether to use neutral, primary, secondary or tertiary app color theme for some icons.
Depending on the 'Color Scheme' used (if applicable), some colors might work better than others in conjunction with the app theme.
Dynamic theme based on cover
Whether to generate a custom theme in Now Playing and/or Library album folders based on a seed color extracted from the cover.
For consistency, uses the color scheme and contrast of the current theme (if applicable) or the 'Content' scheme
and default contrast for non dynamically generated app themes