Vibha, May, Monte, Yuvi and I just met to discuss the dark theme work.
For context, when we rolled out the Android beta, by far the most requested
feature was a dark mode/night mode. The old beta had this, and people
really loved it.
For iOS, we've agreed to wait on implementing something, for two reasons.
The first is that iOS already has a system-level setting for colour
inversion which satisfies some of the user requirements. Secondly, users of
this platform may not even want this feature, so it makes more sense for us
to focus on page styling instead, which we agreed is not in as good of a
state on iOS as it is on Android.
For Android, we agreed the need is more pressing. May (who has some
thoughts on the dark theming due to her previous work on the apps) will
work with Vibha and Moiz to come up with a mockup for what kind of
colouring we want to use. Then we'll start implementing this next sprint.
This does mean that we won't have the dark theme at the time of the market
release, but it'll be in shortly thereafter, so that's okay.
Thanks everyone!
Dan
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Dan Garry
Associate Product Manager for Platform and Mobile Apps
Wikimedia Foundation