How do I change the Airline theme?

Question

I'm using airline with its default theme (relying from my theme gruvbox).

I use :AirlineTheme base16 while I have already opened my vim to change my airline theme to base16.

But I want to change the default airline theme permanently, when I set

AirlineTheme base16
call AirlineTheme base16
set AirlineTheme base16

• AirlineTheme base16 -- Gives no failure message but removes all airline themes.
• call AirlineTheme base16 -- Gives error "Missing parentheses. I also tried it as call AirlineTheme base16(). Still same error.
• set AirlineTheme base16 -- This says unknown option AirlineTheme

How can I set it?

Answer 1

Put the following in your .vimrc:

let g:airline_theme='base16'

You'll also need to install the vim-airline/vim-airline-themes plugin.

Answer 2

I think now you can just do

:AirlineTheme base16

to temporarily set the theme.

Make sure to have Airline and AirlineThemes installed