14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft is working on bringing a dark mode to Office apps on all platforms, and the next one in the queue appears to be none other than the Android version.
Reverse engineer Alessandro Paluzzi has managed to enable an early version of the dark theme in Microsoft’s Office apps for Android, thus confirming that the feature could show up rather sooner than later.
Word, PowerPoint, and Excel for Android are all supposed to get this dark mode, and while the screenshots show the text pane is still using the standard light theme, there’s a chance Microsoft would roll out a full dark treatment by the time the production channel Is getting it.
Dark modes in Microsoft apps
Microsoft is working around the clock on bringing the dark mode treatment to its apps, not just on mobile, but also on the web and on the desktop.
Most recently, the company announced a dark mode for OneDrive on the web, with the mobile apps already offering such a visual style.
Windows 10, for example, comes with a full dark visual style, and other essential apps, including Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Teams, and others are already providing users with similar options.
For the time being, the Office implementation appears to be very similar to the one already available in the rest of Microsoft apps out there. Users will be allowed to choose how they want to enable the dark mode in Microsoft Office apps, so they can enable it by default, stick with the light visual style, or just use the system default settings.
This third option means the Office apps would follow the settings of the operating system, so if your Android device is already using a dark mode, then it’d be enabled automatically in Microsoft’s productivity apps as well.