How the early access program for Jira Cloud will work
Our friends in the Jira team are sharing details of the early access program with the Jira Community — read the full announcement — including with subscribers to the dark theme feature request ticket. This early access program gives you time to update your apps, while putting the feature to the test so everyone can help us improve it.
You (and customers) will be able to opt-in via Jira labs in personal settings, then switch between light/dark themes (or opt-out again). Note that our new light theme also looks different to the current appearance, though it’s subtle in most places — that’s the new colors doing their thing to bring improved accessibility and usability.
We want to be upfront and manage expectations: your apps won’t automatically render in dark theme yet — they will always render in light theme to your customers at present. We want to acknowledge that this may be confusing for some customers in the meantime. We’re clearly explaining that this is a preview, that Marketplace Partners are working on migrating their apps, and that customers should expect the first apps to start supporting dark theme around the beta period. We’ll also be filing gaps and fixing bugs in Jira itself over the coming weeks and months.
Coming soon, you will be able to You can now specify that your app supports theming so it renders in light/dark theme depending on user preference. Also, we provide a backward-compatibility API that you will need to use to specify fallback colors in addition to design tokens. This way, customers will continue to see those fallback colors if they have not explicitly opted-in to Jira labs, ensuring no unexpected visual changes.
See “Detailed steps to update your apps to support theming“ below for more…
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