For years I was afraid of making it public on the internet.

Personal: the origin story described on the About page is extremely personal.

Branding: why make something boring when you can make it fun? The name, the logo, the icons, the visual aesthetics - itĨ. There's a real cost associated with context switch, so having a theme available for 227 apps across Windows, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS is very important.ħ. Portability: developers want an environment that feels uniform. The first Dracula theme was created in 2013, and the project has kept evolving since then.Ħ. Consistency: not only in terms of colors, but in terms of effort. People complain about constraints (think of Twitter's 140 character limit), but constraints make good products.ĥ. Constraints: Dracula is only available in dark mode, despite having TONS of requests to have a light theme as well. Everything is open, and that creates trust.Ĥ. Transparency: on the website, you can see the number of views for each theme, who are the people behind them, how much sales were made. The cool thing about Dracula is that you can find everything in one place.ģ. Centralized Discoverability: most themes are scattered and disorganized.

There's no single point of failure when it comes to software maintainability.Ģ. Decentralized Contributors: every theme is maintained by a different person. I have a few thoughts on why this is such a popular theme:ġ.

Change android studio theme dracula