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Code suggests several Android brands will support Android 12 dynamic colours

One of the highlights of Android 12 is the new Material You dynamic theme engine, which can pull colours from users’ wallpaper and implement them into system and app UI elements.

Dubbed ‘Monet,’ the system currently works on Pixel phones. That could change in the future, however — several Android phone manufacturers now appear in Google’s Material Components library.

Mishaal Rahman, former editor-in-chief at XDA Developers and now the senior technical editor at Esper, spotted the list and posted the information on Twitter. In short, code included in the Material Components library lists manufacturers that support dynamic colour. You can read the full list below:

  • Oppo
  • Realme
  • OnePlus
  • Vivo
  • Xiaomi
  • Motorola
  • Itel
  • Tecno Mobile
  • Infinix
  • HMD Global (Nokia)
  • Sharp
  • Sony
  • TCL
  • Lenovo
  • Google
  • Roboelectric

It’s also worth noting, as Android Police points out, that the core software behind extracting colour from the wallpaper and the appearance model are already part of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), while the colour palette generation algorithm is Pixel exclusive. That’s set to change with Android 12L, since Google is expected to push that code to AOSP.

Unfortunately, it’s possible the above manufacturers could implement their own versions of dynamic theming, particularly the palette generation portion, designed specifically for their Android skins. Android Police notes that Samsung likely already went this route. The company supports dynamic colour theming in the One UI 4 beta, but it’s probably a proprietary solution since the company doesn’t appear in the above list. Likewise, Oppo has its own dynamic colour implementation in ColorOS 12.

Hopefully these brand-specific takes on dynamic colour theming properly leverage the Material Components library since third-party apps reply on it for the colour extraction. If not, colour theming could be limited to the system UI of each manufacturer’s skin if app developers don’t manually add support for each one.

Source: Mishaal Rahman (Twitter), Android Police

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Nouvelles quotidiennes

Swiss art exhibit features extensive private collection

Based in Monaco, the Nahmad family has been collecting great art for two generations, ranging from Impressionism to Surrealism and beyond.

Now in its second generation, for the first time ever, one hundred pieces from what is believed to be a one-of-a-kind private collection are the subject of an exclusive exhibition at one of the most important art museums in Europe, Kunsthaus Zürich.

One of the best-represented artists in the collection include Picasso, with a wide selection of work from all phases of his career; but there are also Matisse, Modigliani and Kandinsky; and Claude Monet, one of the ancestors of the modernist movement, with late, luminous images of his travels in the south.

The Nahmad Collection also has eclectic touches, including works by proponents of late Impressionism (Renoir, Degas and Seurat) at the end of the 19th century, through advocates of Cubism and Abstract Art all the way to the Surrealists: Salvador Dalí and Max Ernst rub shoulders with exceptional pieces by Joan Miró, for a truly fascinating tour of some great moments in modern art.

The Miro, Monet, Matisse – The Nahmad Collection exhibit runs until January 15, 2012.

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Impressionist Exhibition In Michigan

A new exhibition on the work of photographers or painters during the time of the Impressionists will be held at the University of Michigan Museum of Art until January 3, 2010.

The exhibition entitled, The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874, attempts to establish a link between the work of photographers and painters in the 19th century, which led to the birth of Impressionism.

In the exhibit, painters Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, Edgar Degas and Gustave Courbet will be exposed along with photographers Gustave Le Gray and Henri Le Secq. These works came from the Musee d’Orsay in Paris and the Bibliotheque Nationale in France.

"There has been a long discussion about how much influence that photography had on avant-garde painting, what became Impressionism," explained Carole McNamara, senior curator of the museum. She added, "Painters looked at photos, collected photos. Photographers were aware of painters."

The exhibition will then move to Dallas from February 21 to March 23, 2010.