Night mode on Android

Sometimes reading in the dark, even the minimum brightness of the display is redundant. The screen still continues to dazzle the eye and very tiring. About how to set up the so-called night mode for reading, browsing, or using other applications at night, see below.

 In some assemblies modified Android, and Blackberry and iOS occurs a so-called inverted mode, which as is evident from the name, inverts the color on the opposite, or in other words, creates a negative image.

 Assuming that the text on websites and in general, tend to place on a light background , and then invert, in principle, should work as a night mode. The problem with this mode becomes apparent then when he had also reverses the dark color to white, and hence creates a new screen on bright zones, preventing the use of the device in the dark.

 Inverted mode usually inverts and images, which is why they are often changed beyond recognition.

 Perfect night mode

 Ideally, night mode should invert only bright colors in the dark, and white on the page, leave only the text and ignore pictures, and possibly mute them (maybe even converting to monotone images).

 In practice, we have a complete absence of such a regime in most versions of Android, as well as its implementation wrong, when, instead of using the usual clever inversion “negative.”

 Of course, for different activities (reading, browsing, etc.), you can individually select the applications that have a night mode, but it is a long time, is not always possible, and does not solve the problems with the interface of Android, which will dazzle the eyes when minimized applications.

 Here is the desktop after the inverted mode. Too bright to dark.

 Screen Filter – reducing the brightness of the system is below the minimum level

 Before using this night mode, you can try to keep things simple, such as a further reduction in the brightness of the screen.

 With the help of Screen Filter brightness can be reduced to a value much lower than it allows you to make the system. Moreover, somewhere on the values of 10% or lower brightness becomes so low that there is nothing to distinguish the screen, even in complete darkness.

 Protection against inaccurate dimming is almost the same as when you change the resolution on the cards. If after 10 seconds to confirm the selected value, the brightness will be reset to the previous value.

 On the values of about 40% Screen Filter much easier to work with the tablet in a dark room .

 But on the lower values may already have problems with contrast. Brightness of the screen continues to decline, but with her and Extractability of text on the general background, which is why it becomes more difficult to read.

 The pros Screen Filter also possible to bring convenient control. One click on the icon and the brightness decreases, another click – back to a system value. Setting takes place in the panel alerts.

 As a bonus, the decrease in brightness also increases the autonomy. True different screens react differently to changes in this parameter. Apparently most in this respect would benefit from the device Amoled screens.

 CF.lumen – night mode and invert colors

 To work CF.lumen requires root, and this is one of the few programs that allows you to include an inverted mode on Android at the system level.

 By default, the program uses automatic color adjustment screen (not only the brightness but also the heat), depending on the time of day. For this program you need to install the device’s location. We do not need the automatic mode, but the coordinates will still have to specify. To do this, including GPS, wait for the automatic determination of coordinates, or specify them manually on the world map.

 You can then move to the section Master filter mode, in which mode is available and invert colors. However, as the audit showed, it is not the most convenient for reading, for the reasons already mentioned above: the inversion of images and black tones.

 Here’s how it looks in practice. Perhaps the upper and lower panel is not immediately apparent, but they are white and very light in the darkness.

 As it turned out, to work with the device in the dark , much better seen through the eyes of the so-called “red” mode. In this mode, the top of the image as it is superimposed red layer, which together with reduced brightness perceived by the eye better than other modes, tested by me.

 Perhaps the abundance of red in the screenshot is rejection, and when viewing the image at the very similar sensations arise, but in the dark in this mode is much nicer to look at the screen: do not hurt the eyes from bright light, do not need to squint, the text is perceived good and not low contrast.

 The red light is often used to illuminate the night in those cases when it is necessary to preserve night vision. This explains it’s gentle on the eyes.

 In CF.lumen is possible to adjust the brightness setting, but not lower than the values of the system, so it is desirable to use the program in conjunction with Screen Filter. Maybe not the most convenient option (although run two programs is not difficult), but other equally correct and universal night mode for Android apparently does not exist yet.

 CF.lumen + Screen Filter in action . On this picture in almost complete darkness, you can look at the normal angle is not covering his eyes.

 CF.lumen application installs its driver to adjust the color and the developer warns that Dreyer is strongly recommended to remove if you are upgrading. A similar program in the Play Market also requires the right root, warns that the device cannot boot up, and it will have to fold. CF.lumen in this regard appears to be safe, but do not use the program if you do not know what it is about.

Night mode on Android