Alien Blue is a hugely popular client that features almost total control of ones Reddit account, from posting to moderation and, notably, a 'night mode' feature.
Similar to iOS's own 'Invert Colours' option, available in the Accesibility settings, the 'night mode' we speak of basically turns shades of white to shades of black in-app, giving a much nicer user interface - especially at night, hence the name.
The idea of being able to have a system wide variation of this feature is, frankly, incredible. Extremely difficult to imagine how one would go about coding this into a tweak that wouldn't merely invert the screen colours, as Apples feature does.
Developer Guillermo Morán (@fr0st) almost immediately began work on turning this request into reality - it's likely of course that he himself felt this was a 'necessary' tweak.
Initial screenshots by the developer showed great promise, the whites were now black and the blacks were now white. Indeed the greens hadn't turned to orange or red as they would have by merely inverting colours.
From those early screenshots some Twitter followers and Reddit users had pointed out that a better UI could be gained by having a dark grey as opposed to black and greyish text returned to a lighter shade, or even white itself.
Morán took all such feedback and incorporated them all, producing an even more superior version. At this point one does wonder why Apple couldn't have created something just as beautiful and given users another reason why they need not Jailbreak to begin with.
It was felt for some time, with dozens (if not totalling hundreds) of tweets, Reddit and Facebook posts, that Morán should be 'left alone' while he worked. Not only was it no doubt irritating to him to receive so many questions asking when the tweak would be released but it's also highly counterproductive - the more replies he had to type, the more time it would take to create after all.
Despite this and other setbacks, such as a 'rival' developer attempting to "beat him to it", Morán upped his game and amazed everybody by completely version 1.0 of Eclipse in record time.
The first update is already being planned with functionality similar to F.lux, in that the UI would slowly change throughout the day.
Indeed the tweak is now available from BigBoss for a minuscule $0.99.
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