How To Use Substratum Themes On Android Q

Before you jump to reading instructions, the most important thing I want to tell you is that you need ROOTED device in order to use substratum on Android Q Beta. With Android Pie google has blocked all ways of installing overlays saying that - The Overlay Manager Service (OMS) is intended for device manufacturer's use. OMS, in its current form, is not designed to be a generic theming feature.

With Android Q, google has changed many things most of them are regarding the internals such as dynamic system partitions. Magisk dev TopJohnWu has already succeeded in rooting Android Q and most of the device running Q beta can be rooted easily with magisk. Google already have implemented a system-wide dark theme and most of the apps are adopting the dark themes now. One might feel that this dark mode in Android Q has eliminated the need of substratum themes, this might be true to some extent but the variety of customization is more bigger with substratum themes.

I was using the Android Q beta GSI by erfan and found that due to some issues substratum and substratum lite were not able to install overlays. At this moment substratum app does not work properly with Q which may be rectified in future but for now I found a workaround to install susbstratum themes.There are not many Android Q compatible themes as of now. The only theme that I used on Q is ethereal. Join the beta of this themes to use the Android Q version.

Before you proceed to use this method I suggest you to use Substratum Lite app to install substratum themes. Try it once because it may work for you , if it does not work properly or the overlays not getting installed after building and reboot, then you can use this workaround to apply substratum themes.

What You Need

1. Substratum App
2. A device running Android Q beta which is rooted.
3. A android Q compatible theme.
4. A root file manager such as solid explorer for FX file explorer.

Instructions

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  1 • Install all required apps as mentioned above.
  
  2 • Launch Substratum app and click on the theme.
  
  3 • Select the overlays you want and build them.
  
  4 • Now just open file manager (make sure showing hidden files/folders is enabled) . In internal storage you will see a .substratum folder on top , it contains all the overlays which are built by substratum.
  
  5 • Copy all these overlays and paste them in system/app folder. Reboot after this.
  
  6 • Open substratum and in manager tab you will see all the overlays. Just enable them and your theme will get applied.

If you have any kind of question regarding themes you can drop you queries in comment section. You can join our telegram group https://t.me/thespandroid for any kind of support.

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