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Jetpack Compose Basics tutorial doesn't mention changing app theme
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Description
The tutorial here implicitly depends on using a day/night theme in themes.xml: https://developer.android.com/codelabs/jetpack-compose-basics
For example, themes.xml in the solution contains this code:
```
<item name="windowActionBar">false</item>
<item name="windowNoTitle">true</item>
<style name="Theme.BasicsCodelab.PopupOverlay" parent="ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Light" />
</resources>
```
However, creating a new Compose project with Android Studio results in this theme:
```
<resources>
<style name="Theme.BasicsCodelab" parent="android:Theme.Material.Light.NoActionBar">
<item name="android:statusBarColor">@color/purple_700</item>
```
This leads to differences in expected behavior and actual behavior from following the tutorial. For example, components won't display a dark background without wrapping them in a compose Surface. The system bar also won't follow dark mode and there may also be differences with system dialogs and other components.
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