Automatic dark mode

[martinbonnin]

Follow up from #1731

The dark mode is nice 👏 . Would be nice to have an "automatic mode" that detects the current OS setting. This seems to be possible. See this stackoverflow question for a possible implementation.

The dark mode would be a 3 way setting:

• light
• dark
• auto

[IgnatBeresnev]

This would be nice to have!

If anyone wishes to contribute, I believe the code for enabling dark mode is here.

Would be nice to have an "automatic mode" that detects the current OS setting

Not sure how to add a 3rd auto option, there's a single toggle button atm. Would you expect the button to have 3 states or would you rather see it in the configuration settings?

I think if you open up Dokka for the first time, it could choose light/dark mode based on OS theme, and then if the person decides to switch it to something else - remember that choice.

[martinbonnin]

Not sure how to add a 3rd auto option, there's a single toggle button atm. Would you expect the button to have 3 states or would you rather see it in the configuration settings?

Not sure TBH. Apple documentations have a 3-state "chooser":

Looks like Android documentation is light mode only. Our own docs do what you suggest below.

I think if you open up Dokka for the first time, it could choose light/dark mode based on OS theme, and then if the person decides to switch it to something else - remember that choice.

Makes sense, probably the easiest way to implement it and would work in the vast majority of use cases 👍

[pt2121]

First time contributing here, I put in a PR which should do what you mentioned:

I think if you open up Dokka for the first time, it could choose light/dark mode based on OS theme, and then if the person decides to switch it to something else - remember that choice.

Please let me know what you think.