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Best Google Chrome themes in 2023
Looking to change the way your browser looks? Here are some of the best Google Chrome themes you can grab for your browser today.
Google Chrome is not only present on great Chromebooks, but it is also installed on billions of computers. One feature Chrome carries with it across any desktop device it runs on is theme support. Today, we're going to give you a brief rundown of some of the best Google Chrome desktop themes out there. From simple, colored themes all the way up to artistic and landscape themes, you can spruce up your browsing experience as much or as little as you want. The possibilities are endless.
Repainter goes freemium, v2 update brings custom theme sharing support
Repainter, the Material You theme customizer app by well-known developer kdrag0n, has been updated with a new freemium payment model. Read on!
For those who like to tinker with the Material You dynamic color theming on a regular basis, the Repainter app from Danny Lin is a great way to style your rooted device with seemingly endless possibilities. The app also works without root access on Samsung Galaxy devices and select Google Pixel phones. Its $4.99 price tag, however, made it a little bit unattractive to those who chose not to pay. Fortunately, Repainter 2.0 takes a wrecking ball to that paywall and makes a few other key changes.
Repainter, the Material You theme customizer, is now out of beta
Repainter, the app that allows you to customize the Material You theme engine in Android 12, is now out of beta.
Material You dynamic theming was one of the highlight features of Android 12, as it could change the colors used in applications and across the system based on your current wallpaper. However, it's not super customizable, which is where the Repainter application comes in. After a short time in beta, the first stable release of Repainter is now available on the Google Play Store.
Repainter brings customizable dynamic Material You theming to Android 12 and 12L
If the built-in dynamic theming in Android 12/12L aren't versatile enough for your tastes, then check out Repainter for more customizations.
Android theming has come a long way, from applying custom overlays via Substratum and now Android 12's Material You wallpaper-based theme engine (codenamed "monet"). Despite all of its high points, Google has yet to publish the resources and libraries on the dynamic theming component of Material You, which is why most third-party apps don’t support this feature yet. Fortunately, Google's implementation has already been reverse-engineered. Danny Lin, aka XDA Senior Member kdrag0n successfully recreated the Pixel-exclusive dynamic theming and made it open source, so that custom ROM developers can easily incorporate it in their builds. Now, kdrag0n has released a new theming app called Repainter to give end users even more customization options for the Material You's colors.
Android 12's Fabricated Overlay API brings back rootless themes
Remember how Android 8 made it easy to theme your device? Remember how much fun that was? Well, it's back in Android 12, with a twist.
The full stable Android 12 release is right around the corner, and Google has even posted the source code to its AOSP repo. There’s a lot that’s new in Android 12, including an addition to resource overlays called Fabricated Overlays. What was meant as an API to help the system manage the dynamic changes used in Material You and monet may turn into something much bigger -- at least until Android 13 releases.
Xiaomi lets you change the boot animation and charging screen in MIUI: Here's how to do it without root!
Here's how you can change the boot animation and charging screen on your Xiaomi device using the Themes app. No root access required!
While root access was mandatory for high-level customization on Android devices not too long ago, it's not as important these days. There are a bunch of apps on the Play Store that will let you customize almost every aspect of your device without requiring root access, and a couple of OEMs now also offer first-party customization apps that let you personalize your device with ease. For instance, Samsung's Good Lock is a great tool that includes several useful modules that let you change the complete look and feel of your Galaxy device. Similarly, Xiaomi's MIUI comes with a built-in Themes app that lets you change several aspects of your phone's UI.
How to enable hidden Pixel themes on Sony Xperia phones running Android 10
Here's how you can access the hidden Pixel theme overlays on your Sony Xperia smartphone running Android 10 and apply them via command line.
The Pixel Themes app lets you customize the icon shape, font, accent color, etc. on Google Pixel phones running Android 10. We discovered the existence of the app shortly after Google pushed the second Android Q beta, and managed to get an early preview of its capabilities about a month before the public appearance. As the name suggests, the app is not intended for non-Pixel devices, but the underlying overlays that it toggles can still be found on other devices. Although neither the full-fledged Pixel Themes app nor the AOSP ThemePicker is present on Sony Xperia phones running Android 10, the company has left in a lot of the icon shape and accent color overlays that can be activated via the cmd overlay
shell command.
MIUI Themes is coming back to Xiaomi phones in Europe
MIUI themes is coming back to Xiaomi smartphones in the European Union, and to celebrate, the company is holding a wallpaper contest.
One of the many features that makes MIUI unique is the theming options. You can change the entire look and style of your Xiaomi smartphone thanks to MIUI themes, even making it look close to AOSP if you'd like. The feature was removed from European Union smartphones back in February of last year, with the company citing "changing privacy regulations" as to why it had to do so. As time went on, it looked like the feature wasn't coming back, but in a surprise announcement on the MIUI forums, the company announced its return.
Some of the best Synergy themes for your One UI phone
There are lots of themes for Substratum that support Synergy, so I thought I might as well list out some of the best themes that are available.
Just last month, the Projekt team launched Synergy. Synergy allows you to install Substratum themes on every Samsung phone with One UI. The best part is it works without root. There are lots of themes for Substratum that support Synergy, so I thought I might as well list out some of the best themes that are available. This is by no means a complete list because there are a lot more themes, but these are some of the cooler ones I've seen.
Synergy lets you use Substratum custom themes once again on Samsung's One UI
Samsung's Android Pie-based One UI blocks custom Substratum themes from being installed, but the new Synergy app lets you get around that restriction.
When Samsung released its Android Pie-based software called One UI, we were big fans of its focus on one-handed ease of use and system-wide dark theme. Furthermore, unlike Android Pie builds for other devices, Samsung didn't disable installing custom overlays in One UI. Sadly, around the time of the Galaxy S10 launch, Samsung merged the changes blocking custom overlays used by the Substratum theme engine. Fortunately, the Projekt team found a workaround. They have created a new app called Synergy to install themes on Samsung Galaxy phones running One UI, and it doesn't need root.
How to install custom themes in EMUI if you're region restricted
For those using EMUI while being region-restricted by Huawei, XDA Senior Member -Mr. X- published a thorough Forum Post on how to install custom themes.
For those of our readers using EMUI while being region-restricted by Huawei, XDA Senior Member -Mr. X- published a thorough Forum Post on how to install custom themes. However, before we dive into the steps needed to be performed, there are certain prerequisites. In addition to making sure that you’ve got Huawei Mobile Services (.apk) installed, make sure that you’ve got this application titled Package Manager: Details, Analyze & Backup installed as well.
Download the Huawei P30's wallpapers and EMUI 9 themes
Wallpapers and EMUI 9 Themes from the newly launched Huawei P30 are now available for download. Head on over for uncompressed images, and themes!
The Huawei P30 and Huawei P30 Pro were launched a few days ago, bringing over a decent level of upgrade from the previous generation and offering a great set of features for a good, albeit still expensive, price tag. Other OEMs have made us accustomed to the rising prices of flagships, and since the new P30 lineup does pack in some impressive technology, the high pricing is just a little easier to digest.
Download Honor View 20 Wallpapers and Themes
We have the pre-installed wallpapers and themes from the Honor View 20 available to download below. Go forth and download to your device!
Last month, the Honor View 20 officially launched in China (as the Honor V20). It will also be coming to India. This beast of a phone offers many of the features you would expect in 2019. It has a punch hole in the display for the front camera, 48MP Sony sensor, Kirin 980 SoC, 4,000 mAh battery, and much more.
Download EMUI 9 theme for EMUI 5/EMUI 8 Huawei and Honor devices
The "9x8 Project" theme brings the look of EMUI 9 to both Huawei and Honor devices if either have EMUI 5 or EMUI 8 installed.
Huawei has an interesting theme platform in place where themes work for multiple devices and sometimes across multiple versions of the OEM ROM. As an example, yesterday we highlighted a dark theme called Deep Black that was made for the Huawei Mate 20 running EMUI 9, but it was shown to work on the Honor Magic 2 as well as other Huawei and Honor devices which are currently running its EMUI 9 software. Today, we want to highlight a theme by XDA Senior Member TenSeventy7 that was posted to our Huawei Y6 forum.
Download ASUS ROG Phone Wallpapers, Live Wallpaper, and Theme
We have extracted the wallpapers, theme, and live wallpaper from the ASUS ROG Phone. If you can't afford the ROG Phone but want the look, download these!
The ASUS ROG Phone is ASUS' first Android smartphone with a gaming focus. It has an overclocked Qualcomm Snapdragon 845, a display capable of 90Hz refresh rate, a couple of really neat accessories, and other high-end specifications. This gaming phone will certainly cost you a pretty penny once it eventually launches outside of China, but for those of you who want the look and feel of the software without spending a dime, you can now download the ROG Phone's wallpapers, live wallpaper, and theme.
Download Google Pixel 3 Live Wallpapers Ported for Android 6.0+
Do you want the Google Pixel 3 Live Wallpapers but you don't have Android Pie? No worries, download a port of the Pixel 3 Live Wallpapers for Android 6.0+!
Earlier today, the official Google Pixel 3 wallpapers leaked online along with the Pixel Wallpapers app containing the new Live Wallpapers. While the high-quality still images of the live wallpapers are nice, what people really want are the new Google Pixel 3 Live Wallpapers. The few users who could install the leaked Live Wallpapers APK discovered that some of the wallpapers appeared on the Always on Display on their Google Pixel 2, but most users can't install it because the APK requires an Android Pie device. Now, XDA Recognized Developer Pranav Pandey has ported the Pixel 3 Live Wallpapers app so it'll work on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and later.
Download the Google Pixel 3 Wallpapers Right Here
The wallpapers from the Google Pixel 3 and Google Pixel 3 XL have leaked online. Download the Google Pixel 3 wallpapers and customize your phone!
For some, the most exciting thing about the upcoming release of the Google Pixel 3 and Google Pixel 3 XL is the availability of the new Pixel wallpapers. The Google Pixel 2 wallpapers were quickly ported after the release of the device and the XDA forum thread for the Google Pixel and Pixel 2 wallpapers remains one of our most popular forum threads. A few days after we leaked the Huawei Mate 20 wallpapers, now the Google Pixel 3 wallpapers have been leaked online too. If you're interested in the wallpapers from the Google Pixel 3 and want to customize your device, then check out the newly leaked wallpapers!
Magisk mod adds Gboard themes like the Poco F1, iOS, Razer, Windows, and more
A new Magisk Module can make Gboard look like the keyboards used on the Poco F1, Razer Phone, and more, thanks to some themes.
The renaming of Google Keyboard to Gboard confused a lot of us within the community. We see Google use their name to brand so many different services (Google Search, Google Maps, Google Pay, etc.) that the Google Keyboard name just made sense. The app was renamed to Gboard and released on iOS in May 2016, but the Android release was delayed until December of that same year. The application comes with a predetermined set of themes, which are essentially different color variations, but now a Magisk Module can actually make the keyboard look like the keyboards used on the Poco F1, Razer Phone, and more.
Pluvius themes system UI and accent color based on the wallpaper [Giveaway]
Pluvius is a new app that uses OMS on rooted Android devices to dynamically theme the System UI and accent color based on the current wallpaper.
With Android 8.0 Oreo, Google introduced Sony's native theme framework called the Overlay Manager Service (OMS.) Overlays can be built to target the resources of any application, including the SystemUI and Android framework, and override them with their own values. This allows us to theme almost any part of Android to our liking on Android 8.0 Oreo and Android 8.1 Oreo. Unfortunately, Google blocked access to the OMS APIs in Android P, stating that OMS is only intended to be used by OEMs. However, if you have root access such as through Magisk, you can still install custom themes on Android P. A new app called "Pluvius" has just been released, and it uses OMS in a really clever way: Dynamically theming system UI and accent colors based on the current wallpaper. It requires root access to work, but if you pass that basic requirement then you can enjoy personalized themes on any Android 8.0 Oreo, Android 8.1 Oreo, or Android P device like the Google Pixel 2 or Essential Phone.
Custom themes now possible on rooted Android P devices with Substratum
Substratum, the popular third-party theme manager, has been updated to support rooted Android P devices like the Google Pixel, Google Pixel 2, and more.
Android P's user interface changes were initially met with some controversy (mostly due to perceived similarities with iOS and obvious accommodations for devices with notched displays), but it seems that the criticisms have died down some as people have gotten used to the changes. There's one missing feature that Android enthusiasts have begging for over the past few years: custom themes. Android Oreo introduced Sony's theme framework which the popular third-party Substratum theme manager hooked into to provide rootless custom themes. Unfortunately, Android P blocked third-party overlays from being installed by requiring overlays to be signed by the system. For those of you itching to get a system-wide dark theme on Android P, however, the Substratum team has just released a new beta that supports rooted devices.