Switch to Dark Color

[cvonlehe]

How do you switch to the dark color? Is there a simple boolean you have to set? I've been looking for a way to do it and can't seem to find it.

[cyrilzakka]

Nope, from my understanding of the code, the switch to dark color happens automatically (i.e. sent by the container app). It's up to the developer to color the keyboard accordingly.

[ifanchu]

I also have this question. There must be a way to specifically saying to use darkmode (darkmode looks pretty good).

The lines of code I was looking at was KeyboardViewController

func darkMode() -> Bool {
    let darkMode = { () -> Bool in
        let proxy = self.textDocumentProxy
        return proxy.keyboardAppearance == UIKeyboardAppearance.dark
    }()
    
    return darkMode
}

Simply return true here.

And KeyboardInputTraits.swift

    if let layout = self.layout {
        let appearanceIsDark = (proxy.keyboardAppearance == UIKeyboardAppearance.dark)
        if appearanceIsDark != layout.darkMode {
            self.updateAppearances(appearanceIsDark)
        }
    }

However, I tried several things and the keyboard color did change to not to exactly darkmode. Please give some advice. Thanks.