The long-awaited moment has finally arrived: the Monet dynamic theme system, introduced with Android 12 and a key component of the new Material You design, has landed in the AOSP (Android Open Source Project) with the release of Android 12L and, therefore, will be available for everyone.
The Material You of Android 12 represents one of the biggest design changes in the history of the Android operating system – at least of the recent one – and in this, as mentioned, Monet plays a decisive role. Since the release of the major update, the dynamic theme system, which adapts all the colors of the user interface by generating a color palette based on the set background, has been the object of desire of countless enthusiasts and we have finally reached the turning point. in the air for months.
Monet is now in AOSP!https://t.co/RQCk2dPrJr
— Mishaal Rahman (@MishaalRahman) March 7, 2022
Yes, because until now Google had left to the initiative of the various OEMs the implementation in the update to Android 12 of the respective proprietary interfaces of their own theme system capable of replicating Monet’s behavior, but from now on Android smartphone manufacturers (and even custom ROM developers ) will have a much easier life.
Already in September of last year, we had anticipated how, despite illo tempore the system of dynamic themes Monet of Android 12 was still a proprietary solution of Google, the road had already been traced and the Mountain View giant was already planning to make it open source. The reality of the facts now confirms all the advances: the theme system became open source with the release of Android 12L (at that time still known as Android 12.1).
On the other hand, even last month, in telling you about Google’s desire to make it mandatory on all devices with Android 12, we had promised a quick arrival in the AOSP. To spot it was the usual Mishaal Rahman, here is the link for the most curious.