Skip to main content
  1. Home
  2. Mobile

OnePlus, Oppo, Xiaomi, and Motorola could get Android 12 dynamic theme support

By

Android 12 brings a long overdue visual overhaul to the Google OS. The Material You theming system changes the appearance of your device, including the colors of UI elements based on the current wallpaper. Since other Android manufacturers have their own Android skins, it was unknown if the feature would be coming to devices other than the Pixels. Now, it appears that Oppo, OnePlus, Realme, Xiaomi, and more smartphones could get Android12’s dynamic themes support.

As of now, the theming system — code-named Monet — is exclusive to Google’s own Pixel devices. However, Mishaal Rahman (on Twitter) has found a new code commit in Google’s Material Components library that is titled “Add supporting manufacturer list of dynamic colors”

Recommended Videos

This is interesting. The source code for Monet (Android 12's wallpaper-based theme system) will be released with Android 12L, but based on this code change for the Material Components library, it looks like a bunch of OEMs are implementing dynamic color support themselves. https://t.co/Oufh9zxDnZ pic.twitter.com/9obGYbbMDC

— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) November 11, 2021

Related

What this reveals is that some Android manufacturers will roll out support for dynamic themes with their Android 12 skin. The current list of these companies includes HMD Global, Oppo, OnePlus, Realme, Vivo, Xiaomi, Motorola, Itel, Tecno Mobile, Infinix, Sony, TCL, Sharp, Lenovo, Google, and Roboelectric.

As a report from XDA Developers points out, Samsung is missing from the list even though One UI 4 betas include a dynamic color feature. However, some third-party apps might not use it, as the feature might now plug into the Material Components library. Google already confirmed it was going to add Monet to the Android Open Source Project, the open source code repository for Android. It said that the code would be added sometime after the release of Android 12. However, no information was revealed about support for Monet on devices other than the Google Pixels because other Android manufacturers use their own Android skins.

This latest information confirms that other manufactures are trying to conform to Google’s design language, which is nice to see on the Android ecosystem, which has always been notoriously fragmented in both appearance and features.

Editors’ Recommendations

Topics
Prakhar Khanna
Prakhar Khanna
Mobile Writer
Prakhar writes news, reviews and features for Digital Trends. He is an independent tech journalist who has been a part of the…
The OnePlus 13 has already set an impossible standard for Android phones in 2025
A person taking the OnePlus 13 out of a pocket.

Four weeks into the first month of the year, one thing is clear about smartphones in 2025: this is going to be an extremely competitive year. Whereas some phone makers used to wait until February or March to launch their flagships for the first half of the year, the early launch of the Snapdragon 8 Elite last year has seen all companies launch their products early.

Honor launched the Magic 7 Pro two weeks ago, followed by Samsung with the Galaxy S25 series last week. Before both of these, however, was the launch of the OnePlus 13, a phone that I think is setting the standard for smartphones in 2025 in so many ways.

Read more
Is the OnePlus 13R’s camera worth an extra $100? I found out
White OnePlus 13R held in hand over blue OnePlus 12R.

In 2024, OnePlus made a breakthrough with the 12R. Despite having followed the trend of launching R-series phones for several generations prior without any significant impact, OnePlus finally appeared to find the perfect feature blend that qualifies as an excellent value for money and recreated the same effected early generations of OnePlus phones had.

The OnePlus 12R was rightly dubbed spectacular in our review last year, and the OnePlus 13R is a step in the same direction, except it improves -- at least, on paper -- in areas where the former couldn't impress us. The camera is one of those aspects, and OnePlus touts the 13R to be significantly better. Our review of the OnePlus 13R also leans towards a similar conclusion, calling the 13R's cameras "genuinely solid."

Read more
OnePlus 13 lands useful AI tricks and a fix for camera snags
A person holding the OnePlus 13.

Merely days after releasing a major software update for its latest flagship, OnePlus has begun the rollout of another incremental patch for its new flagship phone. The OxygenOS 15.0.0.405 build, which is now headed to OnePlus 13 users in all major markets, brings a bunch of practical AI upgrades, among other feature tweaks.

The focus of these AI upgrades is mostly on refining the translation experience. For example, the phone will show the live-translated speech in real time on the screen. Taking a leaf out of Samsung’s Galaxy AI book, the latest update also brings a “face-to-face translation feature.”

Read more