Comment by h4waii

2 years ago

Will another 10 years go by and there still won't be a dark mode for the app?

As someone who uses the mobile app basically every day, it is absolutely one of the things that bothers me, every single time I use it. That's not a good thing.

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ageektrapped  2 years ago

Former Shopify iOS dev here. I pushed SO HARD to get dark mode to be a thing we would do. It's table stakes, IMO, in 2020 and beyond, to support it. We'd get roasted on Twitter, LinkedIn, just about everywhere. HN Comments, even. :)

Got shut down at the highest level. Like, definitively. As in, please don't ask again.

I don't think you'll ever see it as long as Tobi is CEO.

  • secretsatan  2 years ago

    Ugh, i got a bit of pushback on supporting dark mode in my native app, luckily i was starting from scratch and once you show you can pretty much do it by setting up assets correctly and that you can switch modes from the quick menu to test, noone even thinks about it anymore.

    They were all coming from a non native mindset though

  • nprateem  2 years ago

    I'm sure it's only a vocal minority that care

    • darren_  2 years ago

      I’ve seen arguments that dark mode is important for accessibility, which seems reasonable to me, and depending on the company might be a dealbreaker.