Themes?

[doogald]

I agree with the guess...but also point out that the HTC and Samsung devices with themes also have Material Design.

With TouchWiz and Sense, Samsung and HTC have always diverged from standard AOSP/Nexus designs. Since Moto was bought by Google and they had time to release the Moto X, they have stuck with stock, and I hope they aren't spending a lot of time trying to implement theming in the Lollipop upgrade at this point. If they are going to go that direction, I think they'd do it with a new phone to introduce it. I hope that they don't - one of the things that made me buy Moto was their intention to stick with stock Android.

Replacement launchers like Nova Prime add plenty of opportunities to use icon theme packs. You don't need to wait to make changes like that right now.

 

[KPMcClave]

With TouchWiz and Sense, Samsung and HTC have always diverged from standard AOSP/Nexus designs. Since Moto was bought by Google and they had time to release the Moto X, they have stuck with stock, and I hope they aren't spending a lot of time trying to implement theming in the Lollipop upgrade at this point. If they are going to go that direction, I think they'd do it with a new phone to introduce it. I hope that they don't - one of the things that made me buy Moto was their intention to stick with stock Android..

But my comment was specifically in response to you writing, "(b)ut Google just spent tons developing material design and they're not going to allow too much mucking around with it."

Google doesn't own Moto anymore, and the other manufacturers I mentioned "mucked around with" Materail Design in the form of themes (as mentioned already I don't know how deeply that goes though). It very well may be that Moto continues its course and doesn't muck around, but that's no slam dunk.

Replacement launchers like Nova Prime add plenty of opportunities to use icon theme packs. You don't need to wait to make changes like that right now.

I'm aware. I love Nova Prime. My implied point above being it would be nice if everything in the OS was so perfect we didn't need 3rd party apps. Things would run more smoothly, we'd have much more storage spoace, and unicorns would give us massages and cotton candy.

From a practical standpooint, and the reason I brought up the icons, is that I wonder about the functionality of a M dark/light theme toggle and 3rd party launchers. Will I be able to flip the switch on a dark theme and load up Nova Prime as always and have it all work together as I dream it will? That would be awesome, but I figure we may have to sacrifice some things for the OS level flexibility. So, the more I like in the OS level stuff, the happier I'll likely be.

 

[doogald]

I've told you what I think - unlike other OEMs, Motorola will stick with stock Android designs and will not muck about with them. When Google adds any theming options, Motorola will, too. Not before, IMO.

Pay attention to what Google introduces at I/O today at noon EDT - rumor is that they will introduce Android M. See if theming is at all part of the feature list.

 

[KPMcClave]

http://www.droid-life.com/2015/05/2...ngs-now-have-dark-light-and-automatic-themes/

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[TurboHope]

I Dont see why they dropped this feature from android phones, my lg intuition had at least 4 stock themes and I loved it.

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