Black varieties are becoming fashionable on mobile phones, although some apps have been playing with it for a while. They turn out to be fashionable because they help, in theory, to have a sense of extra relaxation when we spend a lot of time looking at our phone's screen, and also because they save battery when we have a cell phone and OLED screen. Although for this we need to have a well-designed black mode, and it is not usually the case.
Android 10, the latest version of the Google app, already has a slightly darker mode than the previous one, because we already have it on Android 9 Pie, even if it's not installed on all phones. We show you how to use it on Android 10, Pie and later versions, whether for launchers or specific applications such as Xposed. Here you have all the options to use black mode on your Android.
How to activate black mode in Android 10
Until Android 11 arrives, the 10th edition of Google's operating system will be the last one around the planet's phones and tablets. As was already the case with Android 9 Pie, Android 10 features a black mode used in the traditional way, and it's very easy to use like going to system settings and looking at the screen section.
Although the name of the button to be pressed should not remain the same, the black mode is on the screen
Therefore, we will only have to open the phone settings menu by following this method: Settings> Show> Dark theme. Note how Google Pixel and Android One phones refer to this dark mode with the theme "Black Theme", treating it as just another customization of our phone's appearance.
This may differ from other manufacturers, as customized layers can sometimes vary by the name of the phone configuration section. For example, Xiaomi, calls the black mode by its name, "Black Mode", in MIUI 11 even though it puts you in the same position as the others, in the configuration screen settings. Keep in mind to look for it, because the method shown above may not be real.
How to activate black mode on Android Pie
The problem here is that not all Android Pie phones have black mode in their settings, however yes we get it on all phones with Android One or Android Go, clean versions of the app. For all other manufacturers, it depends on your choice of operating system, and you should check in each case whether the phone is in black mode or not.
Dark mode is a foot, half more than 100% of the mode used
If our phone already has Android Pie, and if it has black mode used in its configuration, we can usually find it in the Screen section, which is located in the Settings menu. For Android One, to say the pure mode already mentioned, we can find it in Settings> Display> Advanced> Device Total. There, we can enable the Phone mode to operate on a bad phone, even though its use is limited.
We said the implementation of the black mode in Pie was half-functional, and that is because the system turns the light colors dark, making it dark but not in use throughout the system. The Quick Settings bar gets darker, and again at the bottom of the app drawer, however Notifications are always white, including those on the lock screen, and the entire phone settings section.
If we have Samsung with Android Pie, one of the latest models of the Korean company that has already moved to Android 9, we can work in black mode on your Samsung One UI, the interface included with the arrival of Android Pie. Samsung has taken Black Mode on Foot one step further, adapting it to the entire operating system.
How to work black mode on Android Oreo and earlier versions
As the black mode of the system came with Pie, previous Android models such as Oreo, Nougat and older should use different apps to sync the system with these dark tones we've been commenting on. The options are several, and we can use one for phones like Xposed, which we'll discuss later. However let's go with the simple options.
Probably the most effective of this type of customization is to use a launcher, such as Nova Launcher, probably the most popular launcher We can find on Android. To install Nova Launcher and use it, we can customize the look of the app with a series of titles, even though we find the button very effective. Within the Nova Launcher configuration we have Night Mode, which we can use regardless of the time of day. Just hit the "Always" option in your options so the phone will always use this Nova Launcher night mode.
In addition to this dark mode, we can also choose Use black wallpapers for our phone, which will help maintain a sense of continuity between menus and desks, as well as maintain battery storage in the case of having an OLED phone. This can be achieved by selecting any black image from any Google image such as Google Images for our domain, or by going to applications such as Darkify or Pitch Black, which specialize in rendering black wallpapers. In the case of Pitch Black, the background is completely black and smooth.
You use Xposed with ROOT, a problem-solving solution
And as we mentioned, we can turn to Xposed to customize our Android in a deeper way, though to use Xposed we must have ROOT access on the phone (we can get you with Magisk) and there are always consequences, such as losing access to mobile payment apps, such as Google Pay, because they don't go mobile with ROOT access. If we still want to compromise, or if we already have ROOT access on our Android phone, we can use Xposed to turn on blackout mode on our phone.
Separating a phone is not easy and carries its risks: but if we accept or already have such access, Xposed is our friend
To do it Xposed must be installed, an app easily accessible from the XDA-Developer thread. Xposed must "shine" from custom restoration, and to do that we get instructions on the XDA thread we linked, even though here at Xataka Android we have headers like this. Once we've installed Xposed, we download and install editor / Pro settings from Google Play.
Now, at Xposed, we go to the Modules section, where we import the Settings Editor, open it and customize our Android look. The most important parts to customize are "Sort icon color by HTML color "," background color "and" text color ". Playing with these variables and colors in hexadecimal format, such as web page colors (black is # 000000), we can turn our Android interface into custom black mode.
Some Google apps already have black mode
We noted earlier that some apps have been playing for a long time in dark mode, like Twitter, either they pass the gray interface so here we will not find battery backup but rest the eye only. However, this dark mode is also present in other Google applications, which have long been waiting for the arrival of black mode throughout the operating system.
Among these apps that already have a blackout mode we have, for example, YouTube, phone dialer, phone contacts, the GBoard keyboard itself or the messaging app. All in all it can work in dark mode, even if it doesn't affect the whole system. Also there are manufacturers that use black mode independently of Android's appearance, like the Samsung model mentioned earlier.
Even so, remember that black mode with no uniform black color will not save the battery and it will only be a cosmetic change, which, in turn, will help us relax our eye more. Battery backup methods are the ones that get darker, and whenever we have OLED displays, it's not allowed with LCDs.
The truth about saving energy in dark mode
Black mode view too Battery saving applies only to OLED panels, either on such standard OLEDs or on AMOLEDs that other manufacturers work, like Samsung's Super AMOLEDs on their devices and that, in turn, does not sell to others. It all has to do with the actual screen technology, as we tell you now.
If the panel is not OLED, let's forget about battery saving using dark tones on a cell phone
The LCD panels are fully illuminated even though they should display a small message on the screen. Its technology is backwards which is why the screen is black or the light does not affect its use, only our visual fatigue. With OLED panels, pixels can be opened separately, so to speak each black dot on the screen is equal to one pixel, which is why a large number of blacks on the screen, reduce screen usage and, consequently, by telephone.
This idea, strong and convincing, is stumbling when the ways of darkness do not work well. We don't see a few apps that claim to have a black mode that really relies on darker shades of gray, which causes even OLED panels to shine. The dark battery-saving mode is the one that takes the dark tones to the dark, without too much, thus allowing the screen to go too far, and thus maintaining independence.
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