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Jetpack Compose Dark Mode: A Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

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4 min readFeb 2, 2025

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Our goal is straightforward: enable users to easily modify and track their dark mode preference within our application. Dark Mode, first unveiled at Google I/O 2019, has gained significant traction among both developers and users. Thankfully, integrating it into Jetpack Compose is remarkably simple — a pre-built code template is readily available when you create a new Jetpack Compose Android project. Let’s explore a few key steps to ensure a seamless user experience.

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Material Theme Builder

It doesn’t matter if you’re a developer who doesn’t have a great sense of color or a veteran designer this tool is a super useful time saver.

It is for material 3 design library. You can simply select one of the predefined themes or add an image of your selection and let it generate the whole color palette. You can chose the colors on your own or fully randomise to go wild as well.

Also, you can get a better idea about what and how to use in the material theme builder from here.

Android Jetpack DataStore

Whenever we talk about user preferences that we need to persist, I was (ok maybe still) thinking about good old SharedPreferences. However there is a new…

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