Dark mode: useColorScheme() always returns light on Android

Hey there,

on my Xiaomi Pocophone F1 with Android version 10 and MIUI Version 12.0.3 the dark mode is not working. When setting it up in the settings it is kind of dark, not black, but grey instead. When I want to get the current theme, with
useColorScheme() it always returns light. I am no expert with Android but why could that issue happen? Does Xiaomi have some built-in dark mode instead of using the dark mode of the apps individually?

UPDATE: It also doesn’t work on Galaxy A9. It also always returns “light”

[chipmunkcode]

I figured it out. It was not enough to just put "userInterfaceStyle": "automatic" in app.json root, I had to define it for iOS and Android individually too:

app.json:

{
  "expo": {
    "userInterfaceStyle": "automatic",
    "ios": {
      "userInterfaceStyle": "automatic"
    },
    "android": {
      "userInterfaceStyle": "automatic"
    }
  }
}

[ghost]

Have you tried disabling a debug remote because it prevents making the app theme dark. That’s what I tried on my side and it worked.