Pixel Watch and Wear OS Could Get Android’s Best Color Theme Feature

When Android 12 launched with Materials You design, one in every of our favourite associated options got here within the type of colours. Android 12 was the primary model of Android to debut dynamic coloration theming that pulled colours out of your wallpaper of option to then unfold them all through the system. This made for an superior customized expertise in your supported telephone, one which you could possibly primarily replace on the common to clean up the vibes.

New code inside Android 14 (developer preview 1) seems to indicate that this identical dynamic coloration theming might come to Google’s Put on OS sooner or later down the street.

The parents at 9to5Google noticed the information inside a wearables-related setting and known as “DYNAMIC_COLOR_THEME_ENABLED.” Now, that may very well be in reference to one thing else fully, however the “dynamic” portion of that setting certain sounds acquainted and will make some sense in a wearable that’s all about private type.

In fact, we don’t know if or when Google will implement this, however it could seemingly take a Put on OS replace. We additionally don’t know the way far alongside this alteration is and if it’s near delivery in an replace later this yr or if Google has solely simply begun making an attempt so as to add it.

The opposite factor is that we don’t know the way this is able to work on Put on OS watches. On the Pixel Watch and Put on OS 3, Google has already adopted components of Materials You. The entire Put on OS 3 expertise, at the least on the Pixel Watch, appears very fashionable in comparison with Put on OS 2. However how would dynamic colours work on a watch that’s largely simply black?

Google might do some cool issues. Since we don’t actually use wallpapers on watches, they might allow you to choose and select a coloration that’s then unfold in regards to the UI of the watch. Or possibly it’ll pull out of your telephone’s coloration palette to have it match to your wearable. Nonetheless Google makes an attempt this dynamic coloration thought, it ought to solely add one other stage of personalization in a tool that may all the time use extra.