Of course, there’s the default support, which switches the keyboard to dark mode automatically when the battery saver comes on. Thankfully, if you use Gboard, it does actually support automatic dark mode switching… sort of.

But for the keyboard, such an integral part of the system, to not do it? That’s a truly egregious problem. It’s bad enough that some apps don’t follow the system dark mode (looking at you, Twitter and Facebook Messenger). Potentially one of the most infuriating things about dark mode is that it doesn’t change everything. Then, you come up with a killer tweet, so you open Twitter and open the tweet composer, which summons your keyboard in it’s blinding white fury. Picture this: you’re using your Android phone, you’ve just turned on dark mode.Įverything is black (or shades of dark grey, because consistency is dead) - your eyes are at peace. However, Google will likely push the new feature to the stable Gboard release in the coming weeks and the below workaround will no longer be necessary. For now, the feature is in beta, so the below information is still helpful. Update at 10:31am: Google has since updated Gboard with the ability to select a default theme that can automatically change between light and dark mode.

Chaging android studio theme to dark