Cascades Development

[willrobertson]

In the first release of Cascades everything was in a Dark Theme. With this latest update most things have been changed to a Light Theme. Two questions on this:

- Will there only be a single theme for all Cascades apps (Dark is being phased out?) or will we be able to decide whether our app uses Dark or Light theme?

- If there will be both, how do we set which theme our app uses? Apologies if I overlooked this in the documentation.

I ask because the app I am creating has a main screen that is a black background, and I would like to pop a Sheet up for a small task, but the Light theme causing a crappy experience with popping a sheet over a black background. Thanks for your help!

[Pumano-]

I think two themes will be good!

[amarcon · Accepted solution]

See

http://supportforums.blackberry.com/t5/Cascades-Development/Are-the-components-appearance-customizab...

[willrobertson]

Thanks for the link amarcon - my mistake for not finding that when I did a search on the topic.

Looks like the best bet for my app is to design it in Light Theme now, and wait for the ability to swith themes in a future Cascades update.

[JackRostron]

https://developer.blackberry.com/cascades/download/roadmap/

Roadmap of BB10 development, I think it is the fifth item says that they are bringing the dark theme back and you can specify the theme you would like to use in the bar-file. Hope that helps!

[demon_xxi]

OK, so now we have Beta 3 with official support of Light and Dark theme. But so far I see no documentation or tutorial on how to use it. Application class does not have any setters for that.

In general I would expect some metadata in bar-descriptor.xml as IDE shold reflect theme design for app preview as well.

Any ideas?

[RileyGB]

I'm wondering about this as well

[d3v3l0p3r]

I found it! ;-)  (in the weatherguesser sample which was updated to Beta 3 code - actually appears all samples were updated to beta 3 and there is some new ones now)

To change the theme add

<cascadesTheme>dark</cascadesTheme>

to the bar-descriptor.xml file in your project.

[d3v3l0p3r]

Honestly personally I prefer the light theme, I guess it depends on the application.

[RileyGB]

Thanks!

I wonder if there's any way to change to the dark theme in the QML preview.