How to change or add theme to Android Studio

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I have just installed Android Studio in my Window 7 64bit  When I launch the application the background of the screen where we write the code is white  I would prefer black or any other color  I am not sure whether we can change the color theme OR add more themes

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For easy reference in Android Studio 3 0   Click File   Settings   Appearance  amp  Behaviors   Apperance

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Go to File  gt  Settings   now under IDE settings click on appearance and select the theme of your choice from the dropdown  you can also install themes  they are the jar files by  File  gt  Import Settings  select the file or your choice and select ok a pop up to restart the studio will open up click yes and studio will restart and your theme will be applied

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Windows      File- Settings- Editor- Colors  amp  Fonts-    Mac OSX     Android Studio -  Preferences- Editor- Colors amp Fonts

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Note  the exact paths shown here are primarily for Windows and Linux  I know Mac has a few non-standard paths  so if you re on Mac  you may have to adjust the starting bit of the path  The point is  get into settings however you d do that on a Mac  Switch theme  File - gt  Settings- gt  Appearance  amp  behavior - gt  Appearance  Select the  quot theme quot  dropdown  and change between whatever themes you have installed  It shows the default themes and any you have installed in the form of plugins  Install new themes As plugin from plugins jetbrains com File- gt  Settings - gt  plugins - gt  install JetBrains plugin browse repositories install plugin from disk Note  newer versions of Android Studio  and possibly IntelliJ   at least Jan  2021 and out  may instead have a Marketplace tab in place of the first and or second one  The last part has three different options  The first has a few amount of plugins  and looks like only the official plugins  Browse repositories have much more plugins  and seems to be like going to the plugin page  This is a shorter way than going to the intelliJ plugin page and downloading the plugins manually  If you download  click install plugin from disk  This allows you to drag and drop  or find  jar files  In the install JetBrains plugins  browse repositories  and  newer versions  Marketplace tabs should have a search functionality  You can search for i e   quot theme quot  from there

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If one just need to change  strictly just  the editor s background to your own colour   Preferences   Editor   Color  amp  Fonts   General   Default Text   Background  Although you need to save it as your own theme

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For additional themes I visited https   plugins jetbrains com search headline 164-theme amp tags Theme I was able to download one of them  I closed all my tabs opened and simply dragged and dropped the jar file  That was the way Android Studio prompted to restart  I tried importing the jar file as mentioned previously but it simply didn t work

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File- Settings- Appearance  There s a dropdown box with various themes

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On Windows 7 - 64Bit File- Settings- Editor- Colors amp Fonts-  Use the dropdown box   Scheme name  and select Darcula

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In 2 3 2 i can change the theme by following  View - gt  Quick Switch Theme - gt  6 Look and Feel

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On OSX  in the menu bar at the top  click on Android Studio   Preferences   Appearance and you will see a theme drop down

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You can change or import a theme by using the icon that the  Duplicate Theme  arrow is pointing to in the photo   Every one sees color differently  Most times a small change in contrast is all you need  Removing the hase from Dracula by changing the Background color to 242527 was perfect for me

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I ve found interesting themes from github com jkaving intellij-colors-solarized  Palette specifications is from ethanschoonover com solarized   I use one of them in my Android Studio  version 2 1 3

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File- Settings- Appearance  amp  Behavior-  Appearance and In theme select Darcula and apply dark background theme editor

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Dayle Reese has an amazing set of color schemes available for use in both AndroidStudio and Intellij   Depending on the IDE you are using  these ICLS files go into a particular directory  This is for Windows    Android Studio      USERPROFILE   AndroidStudio config colors   IntelliJ      USERPROFILE   IntelliJIdea config colors   Once you ve placed the ICLS files in one of the directories above  relaunch the IDE so that it picks up the new themes   There is also a nice page containing a preview of most all the themes so you can figure out which ones you like most   Enjoy

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Mac OS  To install new Theme on Mac go to Preferences - gt  Plugins - gt  Browse Repositories - gt  Select Category  UI  and search theme name  I recommend  Material Theme UI  click on the green button  Install  and then restart after installation   If your theme is  icls format    Right click on finder and select  go to folder  type    Library   to go to hidden library folder find  Preferences  find  AndroidStudio2 x  if you don t have  colors  folder then create one paste  icls theme files into colors    new theme will be installed   to change themes go to Preferences - gt  Editor - gt  Colors  amp  Fonts and then select the scheme

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In MacOS   Android Studio - gt  Preferences    - gt  Editor - gt  Color Scheme - gt  Color Scheme Font    Change Scheme to Dracula

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I am using android studio 2 2 3 and I am able to change theme by following steps   go to File   Setting it open an window like attach image  then Editor   Colors  amp  Fonts  Select theme from Scheme dropdownlist now select Ok

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Just a note for people in the future  To add more themes on a Mac  put the theme  icls files in    Library Preferences AndroidStudio colors    Then restart Android Studio  And select your new themes in  Android Studio  gt  Preferences  gt  Editor  gt  Colors amp Fonts   Android Studio can use any theme that are made for jetbrains IDE  Here is a good Github repo that has many themes for different IDEs   Also  the Color Ide plugin is a good tool that changes the background colour of all menus in Android Studio to match your theme  Try it  the IDE will look much better   Windows should have similar setups  just the theme directory will be a bit different  search for JetBrains Ide theme location should give you the result

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File- gt Settings- gt Editor- gt Colors  amp  Fonts- gt  In scheme name select Darcula and apply to see a awesome dark background theme editor  Android Studio 3 1 2  File- gt Settings- gt Editor- gt Color Scheme- gt  In scheme name select Darcula and apply to see a awesome dark background theme editor

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Simple  Just hit CTRL   alt   s - appearance  amp  behavior - appearance - Theme -  Darcula

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Press Ctrl    Back Quote   Then select  Switch Color Scheme  or press 1  Select  Dracula  or press 2

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you need to go to the File-  settings  in that choose IDE settings-  Appearance in that choose the Theme  options

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Mac os   mojave   Android studio 3 5  mac os   Android Studio   Preferences   Editor   Color scheme   Scheme   Darcula

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You can use CTRL   SHIFT   A  and then simply type theme to go directly to the theme settings  Same goes for pretty much any setting  refactoring or action you re looking for

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Windows     File- Settings- Appearance  amp  behavior- Appearance    Select the  theme  dropdown  and change between whatever themes you have installed  It shows the default themes and any you have installed in the form of plugins   Mac OSX     Android Studio -  Preferences- Editor- Colors amp Fonts   Select the  theme  dropdown  and change between whatever themes you have installed  It shows the default themes and any you have installed in the form of plugins

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Follow the steps      Go to File -  Settings -  Appearance amp Behaviour -  Appearance  Change the theme to whatever you like  Then restart the android studio

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Download a color theme you like - some sites host these  and some GitHub repos may offer them as well   Editor s note  the website previously linked here has been replaced with spam   Import the theme  File - gt  Import Settings  Navigate to the theme-name jar  Click the  quot Ok quot  button  This will tell you restart your application  at least it did for me  and it automatically selected the theme for my editor   Change the editor s theme color by going to File - gt  Settings - gt  Editor - gt  Colors  amp  Fonts  Select the scheme and click the  quot Ok quot  button    Note that this changes the editor s theme color  not the entire application s theme

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Thought I would add this as an answer  for anyone who accidentally mess up like I did  It t not really an answer to the original question  but a few other posts refer to this post  so thought I would add it here  cause its slightly relevant to the question   Hope it helps someone   Today I accidentally set my IDE font size on Android Studio very high  was going to set it to 10  but it accidentally became 110    Now  the big issue for me was that opening the file menu was not possible  well  could open it  but could not get to the settings choice   so I had to figure out how to do it manually     I found the Android Studio IDE settings in the Users  username   AndroidStudioPreview config folder and in there  the ui inf xml file  in which I could change the option FONT SIZE back to a more manageable size   Following image is android studio with 110 px font size on a 1920x1080 screen

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In Android Studio 3 4 2   As mentioned in previous answers  you can change theme to Darcula in Appearance  amp  Behavour   Appearance to have default dark theme   Since macOS Mojave you can use dark mode in system  My issue was the system window bar was still light only for Android Studio     Note there s an option to change this next to the theme selector  Use dark window headers

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You can try this Making Android Studio pretty to change the android studio look and feel different

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On Windows  File-  Settings-  Appearance amp Behavior-  Appearance  Change  Theme field

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You can download new themes from https   github com sdvoynikov color-themes -- note that the project is deprecated at this time  but the sources are still available  Once you have downloaded the  jar file  go to File - gt  Import Settings    and choose the file downloaded

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File - Settings - Appearance  amp  Behavior - Appearance - CHOOSE Darcula in  Theme  - Press Apply   or  Choose File - Settings - Editor - Colors  amp  Fonts - Then SELECT Darcula in scheme name - Press Apply - restart Studio  sometimes not all elements implement theme

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