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# Customize PDFViewCtrl

Customize color themes in Xamarin.Android and Xamarin.iOS viewers with day, night, and custom color modes. Learn how to set viewer themes and color modes for optimal viewing experience. The Apryse Xam

You can change the color themes inside document viewers.

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="Android" %}

## Viewer theme customization in Xamarin.Android

[Day and night themes](/xamarin/guides/android/viewer/themes.md#night) Find out more about the sleek day and night themes available for the viewer UI.

[Page Color mode](/xamarin/guides/android/viewer/themes.md#custom) Pages can be viewed in various color modes, find out more here.
{% endtab %}

{% tab title="iOS" %}

## Change color theme in Xamarin.iOS viewer

[`PDFViewCtrl`](https://sdk.apryse.com/api/xamarinios/tools/api/pdftron.PDF.PDFViewCtrl.html) has three special color modes: night mode, inverted color mode, and custom color mode. In night mode, colors are adjusted to improve reading at night, in inverted color mode, all colors are inverted, and in custom color mode, you can set a custom color for text and the background color.

![](https://653871032-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FgjsBtuYmcKhWOdM9VCg4%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-343375628c2dff8eebaa3c1a94bea5d0a9ff71ae%2F66f05a343d0341455b509a9282075128a28bd48a-1430x544.png?alt=media)

Color modes from left to right: normal color mode, inverted color mode, night mode and custom color mode.

## Set the color mode

To set the color mode:

1. Find the constant value of the color mode

| Color mode          | Constant value                                                                                                                                                          |
| ------------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| Normal color mode   | [`PDFRasterizer.ColorPostProcessMode.e_postprocess_none`](https://sdk.apryse.com/api/xamarinios/pdfnet/api/pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.ColorPostProcessMode.html)         |
| Night mode          | [`PDFRasterizer.ColorPostProcessMode.e_postprocess_night_mode`](https://sdk.apryse.com/api/xamarinios/pdfnet/api/pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.ColorPostProcessMode.html)   |
| Inverted color mode | [`PDFRasterizer.ColorPostProcessMode.e_postprocess_invert`](https://sdk.apryse.com/api/xamarinios/pdfnet/api/pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.ColorPostProcessMode.html)       |
| Custom color mode   | [`PDFRasterizer.ColorPostProcessMode.e_postprocess_gradient_map`](https://sdk.apryse.com/api/xamarinios/pdfnet/api/pdftron.PDF.PDFRasterizer.ColorPostProcessMode.html) |

1. Call `SetColorPostProcessMode`.
2. Optionally, set the `PDFViewCtrl` background color for the best visual result. You can set background color by calling `SetClientBackgroundColor` (Xamarin.Android) or `SetBackgroundColor` (Xamarin.iOS).For example, set the background color to black for night mode:

![](https://653871032-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FgjsBtuYmcKhWOdM9VCg4%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-e2fd299ceaf0f87ad2aecf8f82269abbfed10f62%2F11a67ce052a7a6199ddd8c12ea5f1144a758c901-392x292.png?alt=media)

{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```csharp
// Xamarin.Android
mPdfViewCtrl.SetClientBackgroundColor(0, 0, 0, false);

// Xamarin.iOS
mPdfViewCtrl.SetBackgroundColor(0, 0, 0, false);
```

{% endcode %}

1. If you are using `postprocess_gradient_map`, call `PDFViewCtrl.SetColorPostProcessColors` to set the white and black points. For example, for a sepia effect, try:

{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```csharp
// Xamarin.Android
var darkBrown = Android.Graphics.Color.Rgb(61, 38, 10);
var lightBrown = Android.Graphics.Color.Rgb(245, 224, 202);
mPdfViewCtrl.SetColorPostProcessColors(lightBrown, darkBrown);

// Xamarin.iOS
var darkBrown = new UIKit.UIColor(0.24f, 0.15f, 0.04f, 1.0f);
var lightBrown = new UIKit.UIColor(0.96f, 0.88f, 0.79f, 1.0f);
mPdfViewCtrl.SetColorPostProcessColors(lightBrown, darkBrown);
```

{% endcode %}

1. Update `PDFViewCtrl` to redraw the contents:Sample result when using `postprocess_gradient_map` and a light/dark brown for the white/black color:

{% code lineNumbers="true" %}

```csharp
mPdfViewCtrl.Update(true);
```

{% endcode %}

![](https://653871032-files.gitbook.io/~/files/v0/b/gitbook-x-prod.appspot.com/o/spaces%2FgjsBtuYmcKhWOdM9VCg4%2Fuploads%2Fgit-blob-147581910216d35f3a25250590fcd193fc50dc02%2F763253aeabe683dda72a42172754b12942b3ec44-948x1228.png?alt=media)
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