Hello! Product Manager / rookie Product Designer here and I need some help. (I am much more visual than technical overall).

I am working on a large new white-label SaaS app that will allow clients to completely change the colors of our app by mapping their branding colors to our established style sheet. I have a few spots in my design where I have an element in a “light grey” color style on top of a background layer using one of our “background” color styles. I found that depending on the background color the client uses the greys elements can almost disappear if I use the standard “Pass Through” blend mode. I switched them to the new “Plus Darker” blend mode and love the results. The elements have looked good with almost any color combination. I have a few other elements that use “Multiply” and also love the way those elements look in Figma.

My problem however has been getting my nearshore Android dev team to actually implement the layer blend modes in app. I found some Android documentation that seems to suggest it is possible, but my team is telling me for some reason they either can’t implement it or just don’t know how to implement it. I suspect it is the latter because they seemed to have no idea what I was talking about when I explained what the blend mode was in Figma/Photoshop/etc. I have noticed that while in “Dev Mode”, Figma won’t generate any sample code for the blend mode either, so I can’t pull from there to help them.

Is this something any other Android designers/developers have dealt with? How did you overcome this?