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TechPhonesAndroid PhonesAndroid phones are about to get a whole lot more personalGoogle’s testing a way to completely customise your interface – even if your apps don’t want you toWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Google’s testing a way to completely customise your interface – even if your apps don’t want you to
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One of my favourite things aboutAndroid 13is the extensive customisation it offers, and it seems it’s about to get even better. According to newreports,Googleis testing a new feature that’ll enable you to override app icons to make sure everything fits your chosen theme.
The feature is inAndroid13 QPR2 beta 2, and it’s a flag with the name of “ENABLE_FORCED_MONO_ICON”. As you’ve probably guessed, this flag enables you to force app icons into mono – something you can’t currently do.
No colours? No problem
At the moment, if you choose a monochrome colour theme for yourAndroid phoneit’s up to the app developers whether they’ll allow you to override their colour choice – so if you want something in nice soothing shades of grey you can’t necessarily override an app’s vivid red, blue or green. But if Google brings this feature across to the final stable release, you’ll be able to make all your icons and Home Screen shortcuts conform to your own colour choices.
It’s a little thing, I know, but when you consider how many times you’ll see those icons and shortcuts in a typical day that’s quite a lot of irritation. And it’s part of a wider interface revamp in Android 13 that Google’s doing, with particular focus on the Android experience ontablets. Interface improvements might not be must-haves, but they’re definitely nice-to-haves.
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