mtotschnig
Bring back color to phone statut and navigation bar
Latest version 4.0.0 don't use anymore account color for phone statut and navigation bar. Instead there is a little dot next to account name.
Please add an option to allow to color phone statut and button with current account color. It made super easy to check at glance you were on the right account.
Thank you for the feed-back. Let me explain the context of this change: Since Android 15, edge-to-edge display is becoming the standard on Android: https://developer.android.com/about/versions/15/behavior-changes-15#edge-to-edge and the methods previously used for setting colors on status bar and navigation bar became deprecated: https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/Window#setStatusBarColor(int) https://developer.android.com/reference/android/view/Window#setNavigationBarColor(int) So even if I could have postponed moving away from the previous design (by keeping targetSdk to 34), it would have had to happen eventually. Now under the new conditions of edge-to-edge enforcement, it is still possible to color regions of the screen, but speaking of phone portrait:
- it makes sense to adapt the new normal of only have a light scrim on the navigation bar (bottom edge), so that the transaction list can appear to scroll beneath it.
- for the status bar (top edge), theoretically it would still be possible to apply the account color, but is more difficult, because it can not be done by simply calling one method any more, and I am not sure if it esthetically as pleasing without the same color on the bottom edge of the screen.
Globally I think that the new design of version 4.0 looks more modern and polished. Maintaining the old design as an option might be technically possible, but only with major overhead, and potential negative impact on Play Store optimization (if done via deprecated APIs) because Google monitors the use of deprecated APIs in apps. I am open for suggestions though how to increase the visibility of the account color compared to the current small dot and the floating action button.
