Android Color App

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

Big story short:
On android, the black theme is preferred. There are also a lot of IOS users that have this preference (they want black like Android).

I will communicate this and come back to you guys

[Klunzinger]

I think black looks better and the power consumption with AMOLED displays will be better.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@klunzinger This can be the case I ll get and answer about this

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

There is a plan for the colors to be aligned. However this will not happen in the next 2 months but hopefully till full launch.

Is that ok with you guys @suzzlo and @Mff73

[suzzlo]

I prefer white

User setting? it would be nice

[Jouko Tyni]

@mff73 White is the new black with this app, like Dimitrios menitoned. Not quite there with the styles, Bluetooth and other things are more important, please bear with us with this beta version(s)

[Mff73]

I agree with the fact it is not an issue. Sorry for putting the wrong tag.
I will try to édit.
Black is not bad, just différent from iOS screen I used to see since months

[Mff73]

Tag removed.

[Taeh Ingpanya]

I prefer white theme color on android

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

Shall we make this a poll perhaps?

What do you think ?

[suzzlo]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos I will prefere to have both options (configurable) but my vote will go to white

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

Shall we make this a feature request?
Or an issue and wait till it’s aligned.

IMHO adding an exception for Android only to have black and white would then furstrate iOS users no?

[TheRunningDaddy]

@klunzinger I’m not code guy but the colour is not all. To have black for amoled there has to be coding changed. I’m not saying it’s easy or hard, just worth mentioning. My battery app has black theme but in options I got 2 types: adopted to amoled (where black pixels are off) or standard (where black background illuminates).

[Peñalba]

Apart from the discussion between black and white, I think the App should reflect the colors that Suunto has implemented so well in the Spartan model. In my opinion, the App is very monotonous and that difficult to differentiate between different sport modes and features within the App (ascents and descents values, heart rate, rhythm acceleration…)

[suzzlo]

@peñalba said in Android Color App:

I think the App should reflect the colors that Suunto has implemented so well in the Spartan model

Totally agree, and this is one of the most voted feature request: https://forum.suunto.com/topic/287/unified-product-movescount-looks-and-features

[Alberto Yoldi]

My vote goes for “black/white theme selection on the settings menu”. Its quite frequent on some other Android apps.

[Nigel Taylor]

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos But is the current SA app UI in any way representative of what the released app will ultimately look like?

I’m sure weeks ago I read it (Android version) just looks very identical to SportsTracker only temporarily as there was a fork from a common code base, and an all new SA UI would follow at some point? (And it seems that’s the case, as some of the ‘over and above’ functionality compared to SportsTracker looks odd…like glued on!)

I’ve refrained from commenting on any thoughts on look and feel for this reason.

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@nigel-taylor said in Android Color App:

@dimitrios-kanellopoulos But is the current SA app UI in any way representative of what the released app will ultimately look like?

I’m sure weeks ago I read it (Android version) just looks very identical to SportsTracker only temporarily as there was a fork from a common code base, and an all new SA UI would follow at some point? (And it seems that’s the case, as some of the ‘over and above’ functionality compared to SportsTracker looks odd…like glued on!)

I’ve refrained from commenting on any thoughts on look and feel for this reason.

Yes new UI is under works

[danielajobova]

Hi guys,

any news regarding the possibility to change the background color in the app?
For now it’s white and I liked the black one more and would like to have it back
Would be great, if there will be the possibility in the settings to change it based on the user preferenes.

Thanks a lot!

[Dimitrios Kanellopoulos]

@danielajobova lets see what we can do with the new android Q