Google Plans to Bring Dark Mode to Android

Android  phone owners who want to enjoy longer battery life should be happy to learn that Google is finally bringing in dark mode feature.

Dark mode theme has long been known to save battery power. In the past, Google has often teased us with dark mode but in the end, it usually settles for the white based theme which naturally irritates Android enthusiasts. Now it seems that things are about to change.

At Google’s 2018 Android Dev Summit, Google indicates that dark UI mode is coming soon to Android, but it didn’t say when. At the annual event, Google shared data evidence through slide presentations to show that using dark mode extends battery life on Android smartphones. It used a Pixel XL phone as a test device to provide proof of power consumption in apps with various colors.

Google said that of the three primary colors, blue uses up the most power at about 25 percent more compared to both red and green. Black on the other hand barely uses up a smartphone’s charge, even at Max brightness compared to white elements that uses all the various components of the screen.

Google admitted to being responsible for the prevalence of white themes on apps by the way it wrongly pushed developers to choose white as the primary color for their apps, whereas white elements are causing smartphone batteries to drain faster.

This admission along with the presentation of data to developers seems clearly to show that Google is finally taking steps towards integrating dark UI mode on Android. Already, dark mode has started arriving on Google apps, this includes Google Dialer, Android Messages , Google News, and YouTube which have dark mode configuration.

So if you want your Android smartphone to enjoy longer battery life, you might try using dark mode on apps. Besides being able to extend battery life, dark mode can be much easier to bear with the eyes, compared to viewing black text over a white background.