Native Dark Mode Finally Starts Rolling Out For Gmail on Android

Sep. 11, 2019

After years of ignoring ardent requests from users to roll out a ‘dark mode’ in some of its most popular software (including Android itself), Google is suddenly embracing its inner darkness in all its glory. After incorporating theDark Mode in Android 10, the company is now rolling out the much-requested feature in a number of its apps, includingGoogle Photos,Google Maps,Google Fit,Google Chrome,Android Autoand more.

After teasing the impending rollout of a native dark mode in the Gmail app for Android last week on the official Android 10 site, Google has now started officially rolling out the new feature to users worldwide. As is the case with most new rollouts of this magnitude, this particular feature is also being rolled out in a phased manner, which means we’re yet to see it on any of our devices here at Beebom, butaccording to 9to5Google, the option is starting to show up for some users.Screenshots Courtesy: 9to5Google

Google first started testing the dark mode on Android earlier this year, when it started rolling it out for a handful of users. However, it was still a work in progress, and was painfully buggy at the best of times,as we reported last June. However, now that the final version is rolling out for good, let’s hope it will work exactly as expected.

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