Comment by 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.

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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.

  • secretsatan  2 years ago

    It’s so ridiculously easy to support though, and i may be a minority, but none of our users ever complain about it being there

    • mrbombastic  2 years ago

      Ehh ridiculously easy seems like a stretch. You need to adapt all of your designs for dark mode and if you haven’t thought about it in the past or you don’t have a design system that is easily adaptable in the app you are going to be updating a lot of components and screens.

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