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Samsung One UI 4.1 enables Android 12 Dynamic Theming for Google Play Store, Chrome

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3 years ago

April 9, 2022

With the Android 12-based One UI 4.0, Samsung introduced the Colour Palette feature, inspired by Google’s Dynamic Theming. The company has further improved the usability of Dynamic Theming with the One UI 4.1 as it now supports, even more, Google apps such as Play Store, and Chrome.

The new Android 12-based One UI 4.1 version debuted with the Samsung’s Galaxy S22 flagship lineup. Later on, the company announced the arrival of this new One UI version for older Galaxies, while, it’s now available on every eligible Samsung flagship.

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The One UI 4.1 comes with many new features such as customizable RAM Plus, enhanced Colour Palette, more new Camera features, and better system optimization for an efficient battery. When it comes to user interface & experience, the One UI 4.1 takes Dynamic Theming capability to the next level.

Dynamic Theming comes to Google apps

Note: Dynamic Theming (AKA Colour Palette is available on various Google, Samsung apps)

Google Play Store

First of all, here comes our Google Play Store, one of the most used applications by every consumer. On Samsung phones, the One UI 4.1 applies the Dynamic Theming function to the Google Play Store, which can be seen at the top header bar that let users search for their stuff.

Besides the header, you can see the applied color (taken from home screen wallpaper) on the available tabs like For you, Top charts and so on. The marking of the tab titles matches with the UI elements, while the underline further expands the appearance of the dominant color, and the same applies to the bottom bar.

Google Chrome

Samsung Internet browser app is unquestionably awesome, still, some consumers like to use Chrome, created by Google. For those consumers, Samsung adopted the Dynamic Theming support for the Google Chrome Browser. You can see the effects right on the search bar, more options menu as well as the tabs bar.