All about Themes in Jetpack Compose.

Jayant Kumar🇮🇳
5 min readSep 15, 2024
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In this article we will explore about Themes in Jetpack Compose. Themes play an important role for building any application. It defines the colors , shapes and typography (font family) etc for an application.

Currently we are using material3 library , that will open the possibilities to use built in theme in Android Development.

androidx-material3 = { group = "androidx.compose.material3", name = "material3" }

When you create any Jetpack Compose project you will get some files under theme package.

Theme files

We will use all these files to defines our application theme.

Colors

In color.kt file we will define our colors for both Light and Dark Modes. when you open this file you will get some pre-define colors.

  • Hex Color
import androidx.compose.ui.graphics.Color

// hex code color
val Purple40 = Color(0xFF6650a4)
val PurpleGrey40 = Color(0xFF625b71)
val Pink40 = Color(0xFF7D5260)

In the Color function we passed hex code color.

  • RGB Color
// rgb 
val rgbColor =…

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Jayant Kumar🇮🇳
Jayant Kumar🇮🇳

Written by Jayant Kumar🇮🇳

Hello My name is Jayant Kumar, I am a software Engineer , specialist in Mobile Development (Android , IOS , Flutter , React Native and Ionic) from India 🇮🇳

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