Find out exactly how to use dark mode in Android with our easy guide. We’ll show you how to select the dark theme, how it works in Android 9 Pie and how Google has expanded it into a proper dark mode in Android 10 Q. Dark mode can be effective in extending battery life and reducing eye strain.
There are few things more jarring than picking up your phone in a dark room and opening an app with a white background. That eye-melting burst of brilliant white can be downright painful. Design trends have also slid toward greater use of white space in recent years, and few companies have been more complicit in this trend than Google. Thankfully, the Android developer has heard the complaints and it’s acting of them by working a dark mode into Android that not only saves our eyes but could also save battery life.
We’ve grown more conscious in recent years of the potential harm staring at screens can do to our eyes and how blue light can disrupt sleep. Many manufacturers have started to offer different night modes, but proper dark modes that switch white and light backgrounds to dark backgrounds are rare.
