Material Theme Preferences

Kotlin Multiplatform library for easy switching Dark/Light Material themes on Compose. Supported platforms:

• Android
• iOS
• Desktop JVM (MacOS, Linux, Windows)

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Usage

Call composable functions to wrap your app, show theme preference items, and handle dialog state manually.

Show dialog directly: Use ThemeAlertDialog to show a dialog with theme preferences:

@Composable
fun App() = PreferableMaterialTheme {
    var showDialog by remember { mutableStateOf(false) }
    SettingsScaffold(onThemeClick = { showDialog = true }) {
        Column {
            ThemePreferencesCategory() // subtitle
            ThemePreferenceItem(onClick = { showDialog = true }) // menu item
        }
    }
    if (showDialog) {
        ThemeAlertDialog(dismissDialog = { showDialog = false })
    }
}

With navigation frameworks: Use ThemeDialogContent as the content of a dialog destination:

@Composable
fun App() = PreferableMaterialTheme {
    val navController = rememberNavController()
    NavHost(navController = navController) {
        composable<AppNavGraph.Settings> {
            SettingsBody(onThemeClick = { navController.navigate(route = AppNavGraph.ThemeDialog) })
        }
        dialog<AppNavGraph.ThemeDialog> {
            ThemeDialogContent(dismissDialog = navController::popBackStack)
        }
    }
}

Check the sample app for using with Material Design versions 2 & 3.

The NoteDelight app is a real example.

Installation

The latest release is available on Maven Central.

Gradle

1. Add the Maven Central repository if it is not already there:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
}

2. In multiplatform projects, add a dependency to the commonMain source set dependencies

commonMain {
    dependencies {
        implementation("io.github.softartdev:theme-material:$latestVersion") // Material Design 2
        implementation("io.github.softartdev:theme-material3:$latestVersion") // Material Design 3
        implementation("io.github.softartdev:theme-prefs:$latestVersion") // optional, if you need only preferences
    }
}

Implementation

Used compose-multiplatform-resources library for many languages (currently Russian and English are supported).

Persisting preferences is implemented using SharedPreferences on Android, and Java Preference API on JVM Desktop.

// common:
expect var themeEnum: ThemeEnum

// android:
private val preferences: SharedPreferences = PreferenceManager.getDefaultSharedPreferences(context)

actual var themeEnum: ThemeEnum
    get() = preferences.getInt(THEME_KEY, ThemeEnum.SystemDefault.ordinal).let(ThemeEnum.values()::get)
    set(value) = preferences.edit().putInt(THEME_KEY, value.ordinal).apply()

// desktop java:
private var preferences: Preferences = Preferences.userNodeForPackage(ThemeEnum::class.java)

actual var themeEnum: ThemeEnum
    get() = preferences.getInt(THEME_KEY, ThemeEnum.SystemDefault.ordinal).let(ThemeEnum.values()::get)
    set(value) = preferences.putInt(THEME_KEY, value.ordinal)

// ios:
private val preferences: NSUserDefaults = NSUserDefaults.standardUserDefaults

actual var themeEnum: ThemeEnum
    get() = preferences.integerForKey(THEME_KEY).let(ThemeEnum.values()::get)
    set(value) = preferences.setInteger(value.ordinal, THEME_KEY)

Also used composition local for access from theme-scoped as an implicit way:

val themePrefs: ThemePrefs = LocalThemePrefs.current