Google has slowly but steadily been upgrading its software catalog to be Material You-compliant. Chrome OS and Search are among the latest to show hints of the new design language — but it doesn’t just end there. A new report suggests that dynamic theming will soon be turning compulsory if any Android 12 Android phone or tablet is to ship with Google services.
The source, which has spoken to Android Police, has picked off the information from internal Google documentation. It says that starting March 14, Google will require any new Android 12-based builds submitted for GMS (Google Mobile Services) approval to implement a dynamic theming engine. Certain conditions will be put in place alongside such as the ability to generate five tonal palettes based on a single source color.
It could be possible that this requirement will be going live with the release of Android 12L. The monet engine currently remains a Pixel-exclusive thingy and is yet to go full open source, but Android 12L is expected to integrate it fully into AOSP.
Manufacturers will thus have to create their own compliant dynamic theming engines or directly implement Google’s monet.
Android expert Mishaal Rahman says that some manufacturers like Xiaomi and Motorola have already started monet-related patches from Google’s internal Android 12L repository. Other manufacturers like Samsung chose to go with their own implementation of dynamic wallpaper-based theming, which while isn’t powered by monet, uses very similar logic.
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