If you are a nocturnal and like browsing Twitter at night, then you're in luck, as all that tweeting in the dark will not trouble you any longer. How? Because Twitter apparently has a Night Mode in testing for its Android app, which will aid users in reading or writing at night.
According to reports, Twitter is testing the Night Mode in the latest alpha (5.112.0-alpha.423) version of its Android app. The mode basically swaps the white hue with a dark blue tone per an Android app for Twitter users who are on the latest alpha version. The lettering is white against the blue background — instead of black on white — which makes it easier for a user to read.
The new Night Mode for Twitter was first spotted by a Huawei employee Taylor Wimberly on May 22. He discovered the mode's existence in the latest alpha release of the Twitter app for Android.
The user also revealed that the app reverts to the white color — the Day Mode — automatically in the morning. Moreover, if one wished to switch off the Night Mode in the app, there was no option to do so.
"Does the new Twitter Alpha have a night mode? I can't figure how to turn it off," noted Wimberley, who also posted a screenshot (below) of the Night Mode in action.
Some may remember that the Android N Developer Preview 3 removed the dark mode. However, developers still have the option of letting their apps shift automatically to the Night Mode, which is hinged on the location and time zone of the app users.
The screenshot shared by Wimberley shows that the latest Night Mode feature for the Android app for Twitter's alpha version is seen working on top of the Material redesign (espied in April and yet to be announced by the company), which brings tabs for Moments, Messages, Notifications and Timeline.
Usually, Twitter is pretty discreet when it comes to A/B testing, and a possibility exists that it is merely testing the Night Mode feature with select users so as to get feedback prior to officially pushing it out to all app users.
Whether this feature will eventually make the cut and make its way to the stable version of Twitter is anybody's guess.
