| Mobile applications / Apps user interface | |
Mobile applications must follow the platform colors and theming.
Genero BDL provides several ways to define colors and styles for a mobile app. This section introduces features that can be used to customize your mobile app and adapt to the target platform user interface design. As a general rule, avoid to use non-standard ergonomics and decorations, using defaults to let Genero render your forms according to the platform standards. For example, the GMA front-end will use Google material design on Android devices.
By default, TTF icons get a the color of the platform theme. A default color can be defined for all TTF icons of a window with the defaultTTFColor style attribute. In order to define a color for a specific icon, add an #RGB color specification in your image to font glyph mapping file.
For more details, see Using a simple image name (centralized icons)
Android apps can be created with a specific color theme following the Google material design.
When building the APK with the gmabuildtool, you can specify the general app colors with the --build-app-colors option.
For more details, see Define app's color theme.