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Design-system progress

API adoption and Pen rendering are tracked separately. This is cumulative through this PR, not a claim that all native renderers are finished.

Pen component After this PR
Host / native theme Colors only; native typography and shapes left
List / Section / Row Shared RN rows; native Form / ListItems left
Toggle Native switches; Android checkmark treatment left
Segmented Later in stack
Menu Later in stack
Sheet Later in stack
Dialog Later in stack
SearchField Later in stack
Button / IconButton Later in stack
Chip Shared RN chip; native Android variants left
Toast Later in stack
FAB Later in stack
Toolbar Later in stack
AppBar Later in stack
Picker / Slider / Stepper Partial; iOS native slider and picker family left
Progress / EmptyState Later in stack
Typography / shapes / motion Later in stack
Split / list-detail / rail Deferred broader layout work

Custom Appearance cards stay. Segmented controls stay native. Composer, thread-row and task-tray redesigns remain deferred.

Native Compose controls currently derive a separate palette from a seed color, so their surfaces and selected states can drift from the selected T3 theme.

Add a themed Host for each platform and map every Compose ColorScheme role from the resolved app palette. A small Expo UI patch accepts explicit color overrides and exposes the same palette to JS descendants. Material You keeps the system palette when explicitly selected. Adopt the Host in the existing native number field and Android slider.

This preserves the existing Appearance cards, theme values, and typography. Android requires a native rebuild to include the Expo UI patch. Pin Expo UI to the patched version so clean lockfile generation cannot resolve an unpatched release.

Validation: 12 theme/appearance contrast cases, existing theme and appearance tests, mobile typecheck, focused lint, native iOS/Android builds, and the release smoke test. Broader adoption in existing native controls follows in the next layer.

Scope and approval

Maintainer-authored work requested by Julius for the mobile design system. This foundation retains custom cards and introduces native theme mapping; the broader control adoption is #19217. Human review is required before merging.

Verification

The focused theme tests, mobile typecheck, targeted lint, iOS/Android native builds, and release smoke check passed. The dependent control-adoption layer includes the integrated Android theme matrix and before/after captures below; these show the foundation in use, not changes confined to this layer.

native-controls-theme-matrix.jpg

keyboard-before-after.jpg

Model: GPT-6.1. Harness: Codex.

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✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

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Codex Total thread wire — 5.0 KiB — 6.8 KiB ✅
Codex Thread snapshot wire — 3.8 KiB — 4.9 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket wire — 1.2 KiB — 2.0 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn WebSocket decoded — 20.9 KiB — 29.3 KiB ✅
Codex Live turn messages — 2 — 8 ✅
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Claude Live turn WebSocket wire — 1.2 KiB — 2.0 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn WebSocket decoded — 21.2 KiB — 29.3 KiB ✅
Claude Live turn messages — 2 — 8 ✅

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Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

  • Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
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@juliusmarminge juliusmarminge changed the title t3/mobile native theme host feat(mobile): map native hosts to the app theme Oct 12, 2026
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Verdict: Not approved

Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This PR adds cross-platform native theme mapping, patches Expo UI’s Android host, and changes existing mobile controls to use the new runtime path. It also changes native build inputs and requires a rebuild, making the production and release impact broader than a small isolated adjustment.

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The mobile app pins @expo/ui to 58.0.11 and applies a local Host patch that adds Material color overrides. New theme mapping and host components connect mobile theme colors to native hosts used by NumberField and SliderRow.

Changes: Native theme integration

Layer / File(s) Summary
Expo UI Host color override support
patches/@expo__ui@58.0.11.patch, pnpm-workspace.yaml, apps/mobile/package.json
Host accepts optional Material color overrides, applies them to its generated palette, and forwards them to the native view. The workspace applies the patch to the pinned Expo UI version and adds expo-ui to Expo autolinking’s buildFromSource list.
Mobile theme color mapping
apps/mobile/src/lib/nativeTheme.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/nativeTheme.test.ts
createNativeThemeColors maps mobile theme variables to Material color roles and flattens them against the screen color. Tests check contrast and hex formatting across themes and appearances.
Native control host integration
apps/mobile/src/components/NativeThemeHost.tsx, apps/mobile/src/components/NativeThemeHost.android.tsx, apps/mobile/src/components/NumberField.ios.tsx, apps/mobile/src/components/SliderRow.android.tsx
NativeThemeHost supplies theme properties to Host and, on Android, supplies generated color overrides when system colors are inactive. NumberField and SliderRow use the wrapper.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Feature

Suggested reviewers: t3dotgg

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant SliderRow
  participant NativeThemeHost
  participant useControlTheme
  participant createNativeThemeColors
  participant Host
  participant NativeView
  SliderRow->>NativeThemeHost: render native control
  NativeThemeHost->>useControlTheme: read control theme
  NativeThemeHost->>createNativeThemeColors: map resolved colors on Android
  NativeThemeHost->>Host: pass theme properties and applicable overrides
  Host->>NativeView: forward color overrides
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Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 90c09

Custom-theme Android native error states may receive swapped foreground and background colors. This is a bounded appearance risk; the inspected host color flow and source-build selection otherwise appear consistent.

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apps/mobile/src/components/NativeThemeHost.android.tsx (1)

10-17: 🚀 Performance & Scalability | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Memoize the derived color overrides.

When NativeThemeHost rerenders without a theme change, createNativeThemeColors(colors) rebuilds the 50-role object and repeats the patched Host palette merge. This is a small JavaScript optimization. The code does not establish a materially costly native update or a user-visible performance regression.

Suggested fix
-import type { ComponentProps } from "react";
+import { useMemo, type ComponentProps } from "react";
@@
   const { colors, colorScheme, systemColorsActive } = useControlTheme();
+  const colorOverrides = useMemo(
+    () => (systemColorsActive ? undefined : createNativeThemeColors(colors)),
+    [colors, systemColorsActive],
+  );
   return (
     <Host
       {...props}
       colorScheme={colorScheme}
-      colorOverrides={systemColorsActive ? undefined : createNativeThemeColors(colors)}
+      colorOverrides={colorOverrides}
     />
   );
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Review comment at @apps/mobile/src/components/NativeThemeHost.android.tsx around
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Memoize the derived color overrides in NativeThemeHost so unchanged theme inputs
reuse the existing palette object. Use useMemo keyed by colors and
systemColorsActive, and pass the memoized result to Host instead of calling
createNativeThemeColors during each render.

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Inline comments:
Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/lib/nativeTheme.ts:
- Around line 29-30: In the Material theme mapping passed to NativeThemeHost,
assign the danger fill color to error and the danger foreground color to
onError. Keep the existing color tokens and update only these role assignments.

---

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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/components/NativeThemeHost.android.tsx:
- Around line 10-17: Memoize the derived color overrides in NativeThemeHost so
unchanged theme inputs reuse the existing palette object. Use useMemo keyed by
colors and systemColorsActive, and pass the memoized result to Host instead of
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🟡 Minor · Use @expo/ui in buildFromSource. · package.json:165-173

apps/mobile/package.json:165-173
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Use @expo/ui in buildFromSource.

buildFromSource matches package names. The app installs and patches @expo/ui, but this entry uses expo-ui. Android can therefore use the unpatched Host, which ignores colorOverrides when building its Compose color scheme and JS palette. NativeThemeHost still passes those overrides, so descendants that rely on the Host palette can lose the app theme.

SliderRow explicitly supplies thumb and track colors, so this does not establish that the Slider falls back to defaults.

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       "buildFromSource": [
-        "expo-ui",
+        "@expo/ui",
         "expo-notifications",
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The buildFromSource entry is correct for this Expo version. Android's SettingsManager.configurePublication matches each pattern against project.name, not the npm package name. The installed @expo/ui package declares "name": "expo-ui" in expo-module.config.json, so expo-ui is the matching native project name.

The native verification build also ran :expo-ui:compileDebugKotlin, :expo-ui:compileDebugJavaWithJavac, and the source bundle tasks. Changing this entry to @expo/ui would stop matching that native project. Keeping the existing value; this finding is a false positive.

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