Improved branding #311
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Hi, Thanks for your suggestion to change our complete brand color (which is by the way Light Green 50 / 500) because it doesn't match your taste ;) To… blue? Or pink? |
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I don't expect you to do that, and it wouldn't make sense, because everyone's taste is different. Nonetheless, an option to hide the icon would be nice, as, I don't see the downside of this to anyone, and it would remove this "issue".
That would be equally nice. |
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By the way, which Android version are you using? There should be a monochrome icon available since Android … 12, I guess… |
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I'm on 13. (On my phone, at least), the monochrome icon is only used on the homescreen, not in the app drawer |
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In fact, with Material 3 comes Material You, which uses the "system color". This can also be applied to the app icon, so the icon can be properly themed with this color, and not give it a fixed one, including the app drawer. So yeah, maybe in a future... |
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As a point of reference, I like the color. Yes, you can change the app icon in the app drawer. If your launcher doesn't have that feature, most others do have it. Additionally, as settings changes and interactions with Davx5 are rare, another option is to just hide the app in your app drawer; if it's that offensive to you. You could also just find a different app. Davx5 is an app that works it's magic in the background and rarely needs interaction. |
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I use Android 8 and there is a system option to hide app icons from the home screen.
In Android 8 you can also hide app icons from the app drawer. When I read that you are using Android 12, I think I should never upgrade. I just looked into the app drawer and there are many apps with strange colors, like Firefox, Skype or Zoom. |
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I think these options depend on your launcher. You can install a custom launcher, or use the one that's pre-installed by your vendor. These are usually highly customized by the vendors. When I look at my launcher, I don't have the impression that DAVx⁵ is is overly disruptive:
So I'm afraid that I don't really understand this discussion … I'd just like to stick with https://m2.material.io/design/iconography/product-icons.html#design-principles I only think the "DAVx⁵" text in the icon is not ideal anymore. But on the other side, what could an icon with recognition value be? Just sync arrows? Not really… |
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#460 (comment) would remediate this. It necessitates that colouration solely applies to accent colours, and that these accents are user-defined. |
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(Obligatory in my opinion,) DAVx5's branding colour is very off-putting when compared to most Android apps. I think a better colour than lime green could've chosen.
Additionally, the app contains no option to hide it from the home screen, as some keyboard apps do, and as an app that should fade into the background should have.
I use DAVx5 to sync my contacts, calendars, and tasks from my Nextcloud server. I would prefer if Android supported this natively, or if the Nextcloud app did itself, as I don't like having to use a third-party app to sync between them.
But this in and of itself wouldn't be an issue if the app was just in the background, doing its job. However, since you can't hide it, I'm faced with that lime green icon every time I open my app drawer.
This is a picky complaint, I know, and I'm sure my visual tastes aren't the same as everyone else's, but I really think you could do better than lime green. In my case at least, it's distracting, and frankly ugly.
Just to clarify, I'm in no way critiquing the app. It serves a very important role, where neither Android nor Nextcloud nor others have created an app for this purpose. I like it. It does its job. And it works. My own critique is relating to the branding.
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