Android 12 introduced Material You – a brand new design language bringing along much-needed changes to modernize stock Android. Along with redesigned apps and system UI, it also brought along a dynamic theming that sets background and accent colors based on the wallpaper.
And now, Samsung has taken a bite from the Material You cake as well.
The South Korean company today released One UI 4.0 beta 2 for devices part of the beta program (via: SamMobile). The Android 12-based iteration of the Android skin finally introduces Samsung phones to the world of Material You colors, thanks to the implementation of a dynamic theming system that picks colors from the wallpaper.
Because of this, users are presented with countless possibilities for the color schemes that can be used on the system UI. The system interface will now also look more consistent thanks to it using the same colors as the wallpaper.
However, there is one shortcoming. Screenshots by SamMobile suggest that the new theme engine is limited to accent colors alone, which is a step back from Google’s theming system that adjusts colors dynamically for both backgrounds along with elements making use of accent colors.
But given that this new theming system is brand new, Samsung may perhaps extend its scope to app and system backgrounds as well.
That said, there are reports of the personalized theme not getting applied occasionally using the new customization options from the same. This again can be attributed to the fact that Samsung’s implementation of Material You is currently in its early stages. But of course, most of these problems, if not all, should get resolved when One UI 4.0 hits stable.
Samsung has just started rolling out the second beta firmware. It’s going to be available to all users participating in the beta program soon.
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