Dynamically Match Jetpack Compose UI Colors Automatically To An Image
Make use of the Color Palette API
The UI of an Android app makes a considerable part of the overall perception of the whole product. Some might say it’s even the most significant point.
A remarkable feature to give your UI an extra touch is to dynamically change the color of your app’s UI elements according to the color palette of a currently displayed image.
Android provides us with the Color Palette API that allows us to generate a palette of prominent colors from an image or to be more specific, from a Bitmap
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But how can we actually implement it in our Jetpack Compose-based Android app?
1. What we are going to achieve
Before we proceed, let’s have a quick look at what we are going to achieve.
The screenshot of the following image shows what the initial UI looks like. The second one shows how the UI looks like after it is automatically adapted according to the colors of the selected image.