Razer Phone uses OMS Theme Engine

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The theme store included on the Razer Phone can customize system elements such as notification settings and quick settings but can also customize apps like the dialer, calculator, clock, and other pre-loaded apps like Nova Launcher. For instance, one of the themes in the Razer theme store turns the aforementioned apps and System UI elements into a brown color to commemorate Razer’s April Fools joke last year—Project Breadwinner.

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This is nice to see being supported by OEMs and *might* diminish the needs of some to resort to custom ROMs (Not me ). My first thought to the included photo was why brown, but then I remembered that I'm using the Kimbie Dark theme on VS Code so I can't make any remarks on color.

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How does it do it? We’ve now learned that the theme engine powering the Razer Phone is based on Sony’s open source Overlay Manager Service (OMS)—the same theme engine behind the popular Substratum theme engine and the theme engine baked in Android 8.0 Oreo. The software team behind the Razer Phone cherry-picked the commits necessary to get OMS up and running on Android Nougat, so theoretically any Substratum theme built for OMS ROMs should work with the Razer Phone.

Seems like another reason to have shipped with 8.0 instead, but then they would have had to take more time to develop around project treble and have less of a reason to not give timely updates. But maybe just pulling the necessary changes was easier to do.

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There’s just one problem, unfortunately. Currently only themes that are signed by the system can be applied, so users looking to theme their new Razer Phone using existing Substratum themes will be out of luck.  ... In defense of Razer, third party themes can be buggy especially when apps update—causing a mismatch between the theme overlay and the app’s newer resources. The phone hasn’t even reached the hands of consumers yet so we could see Razer open up their theme store to third-party themes in the future.

 

While this is valid, I don't see Razer updating their applications with sufficient changes often enough for this to be a major issue for themers that do update the theme frequently. So thanks for watching, if it sucked, you know what to do but if was awesome, get subscribed, hit that like button, and maybe check out the link below. *Cough* What are your thoughts on this, and does Razer's approach to software make it more appealing to you?

 

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[Kobathor]

Cool. I've always wanted an Android phone that has a dark theme for every single built-in app (since lots of third-party apps have dark modes now.) 

Night theme master race!

[D13H4RD]

OMS is a pretty big deal.

 

Stock Android really needed a proper theming engine because some of us can't stand Google's affection with overly bright UIs.

[Doobeedoo]

Yeah awesome, can't stand when 99% of screen is just white. Love dark themes.