Dark mode not detected on capacitor/android

[wieli99]

Hi everyone. I'm looking for a way to support dark mode on capacitor apps on android.
$q.dark.mode is set to "auto", however the app does not recognize the system dark mode -> $q.dark.isActive returns false

Does anyone know how to correctly respect the system prefs for this?

It works perfectly fine in the browser (both on desktop and android)

[ontwikkelfabriek]

Here's an article about why it's not working and what you can do about it:
https://medium.com/@hinddeep.purohit007/supporting-dark-mode-in-ionic-capacitor-8e57fe9dbd47