{"id":13902,"date":"2022-09-06T14:37:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/06\/how-to-customize-your-android-13-pixels-color-palette\/"},"modified":"2022-09-06T14:37:34","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T14:37:34","slug":"how-to-customize-your-android-13-pixels-color-palette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scienceandnerds.com\/2022\/09\/06\/how-to-customize-your-android-13-pixels-color-palette\/","title":{"rendered":"How to customize your Android 13 Pixel\u2019s color palette"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/23333063\/android-13-wallpaper-google-how-to-color-palette<\/a>
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One of the new features introduced in Android 12 was the ability \u2014 if you had a Pixel phone \u2014 to automatically match your phone\u2019s color palette to that of your wallpaper, including what Google calls Themed icons \u2014 icons that, instead of using their own colors, take on the color palette you\u2019ve chosen as a theme. <\/p>\n

Back then, you could only theme icons that were offered by Google apps. So, for example, when I tried it out on a Pixel 3 using Android 12 beta<\/a>, it changed some, but not all, of the icons on my home page into black designs against a hued background. (Quite honestly, I thought the normal multicolored icons looked much better.) Third-party icons, like the one for Slack, remained as they were.<\/p>\n

In Android 13, the ability to have your icons follow a color palette has been expanded to more icons \u2014 as long as the developers have tweaked their coding to allow it. When I turned on the themed icons on my current Pixel 6, the only app out of the many apps on my phone that I could immediately find that followed the new theme (and wasn\u2019t a Google app) was Bitwarden. (9to5Google<\/em> has a running list of third-party apps<\/a> that can adopt Google\u2019s themed look.)<\/p>\n