Composition Pane Dark Background Color Workaround May Become Deprecated?

[Byron Siegel]

Since the new text editor cannot use a black background for technical reasons (FAQs, New text editor in version 1.14) many have suggested to turn off the new editor if white text on a black background in the composition window is desired.  And Kostya has stated it is “very unlikely” the dark theme will be supported in the new editor.[Re: Version 1.14.0-768-dev - "work in progress", not in Google Play]  To compound matters it also appears the old editor will only be supported “for at least as long as we support Android 4.0 – 4.4”.[Re: Background white, email answer]

As such we may reach a point at some time in the future where the ability to have a dark (black) background in the composition pane will no longer be available.  Did I miss something, entirely possible, or is the subject of this post a valid conclusion?

I’m sure the choice of a “muted” light gray for the background was given some thought in light of the technical limitation (whatever that may be).  However I can’t help wondering if a darker background color could be used in the “Dark, including messages” theme, one that would work well with white text.

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Re: the old editor will only be supported “for at least as long as we support Android 4.0 – 4.4”

Which is going to be quite some time - we still have a significant %% of our users running Android 4.*

Re: However I can’t help wondering if a darker background color could be used in the “Dark, including messages” theme, one that would work well with white text.

The text has to be black. And so the background was "muted" but still light enough for black (dark) text to be visible.

[Byron Siegel]

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Re: However I can’t help wondering if a darker background color could be used in the “Dark, including messages” theme, one that would work well with white text.

The text has to be black. And so the background was "muted" but still light enough for black (dark) text to be visible.

Thanks for the explanation Kostya.  I was falsely assuming (based on a recent post where use of white text was discouraged) that text could be white, which lead me to the idea that the technical reason for the situation was related to a background color issue.

I sincerely hope white text with a black background can be a future option *before* the old editor is no longer supported.  My phone is setup for a high contrast theme, so seeing black on white jars my senses, makes it difficult to read what I am writing, …  Based on other posts in this forum it appears other users are also not happy about not being able to use white text on a black background in the new editor.

FWIW, Byron

[mikeone]

I sincerely hope white text with a black background can be a future option *before* the old editor is no longer supported.  My phone is setup for a high contrast theme, so seeing black on white jars my senses, makes it difficult to read what I am writing, …  Based on other posts in this forum it appears other users are also not happy about not being able to use white text on a black background in the new editor.

+1
I second this recommendation very much.