I read it as paywall and was confused af
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Material You is a privacy issue. It gives a reason for people to have a custom wallpaper.Because of the WallpaperColors API, any third party app can use the wallpaper to generate a unique ID based on that
You make this sound mich worse than it is:
Exposes the 3 most visually representative colors of a wallpaper.
Source: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/app/WallpaperColors
Android really needs a sandbox feature for apps you don’t trust (or just any by Meta)
Samsung has that in Secure Folder. Hardware-based isolation.
it’s completely proprietary tho (Samsung knox stuff is reaching scary levels of obfuscation and proprietary-ness in general)You can leverage the work profile with something like Shelter
Or Google…
I’m pretty sure apps can just grab your phone’s MAC address
Are you this insufferable always?
Someone explain please
Material you changes the android colour palette based on the colours in your background image.
Looks like pywal does the same for your terminal.
Material You: sets all the colours of your phone according to the colours of your wallpaper
Pywal: sets all the colours of your Linux desktop (terminal colours, GTK theme, config files derived from template files) according to the colours of your wallpaper
What I don’t get is how often are people looking at their wallpapers? I see mine for a couple seconds before all the screen real estate gets taken by apps or monitoring etc.
I use a tiling window manager, and it maximizes that behavior. I still have wallpapers, because I spend most of my time in terminals, and they’re set to something like 90% opacity. I can still see the wallpapers, but it’s subtle. Inactive, non-terminal windows get 80% opacity, so I see it more there.
It’s to get a cohesive theme across all applications, so, even if you don’t see the wallpaper, it overrides the default app themes that would all clash with each other otherwise
Worse. You can’t turn it off :/
Wrong.
how ?
Go into your wallpaper and style settings, tap on basic colours, pick one of 'em
