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fix(android): parse hex colors in React Native RGBA order - #156

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Share Android string parsing for #RGB, #RGBA, #RRGGBB and #RRGGBBAA across glass tint and switch setters. Keep existing named-color parsing and invalid-input handling.

Compatibility / breaking changes

Behavior change: eight-digit Android strings now mean #RRGGBBAA, not Android Color.parseColor’s #AARRGGBB. Apps using an ARGB workaround must move alpha to the end (for example #80FF0000 → #FF000080). Six-digit colors are unchanged; shorthand becomes supported. No new CSS rgb()/hsl() or dynamic platform-color support is claimed.

Verification

Twenty valid/invalid Android parser cases: seven baseline failures become zero using an Android Color API double. Actual Kotlin source and generated bindings compile against RN 0.87.1; both app Android builds pass.

Combined review branch: 40 existing Jest tests across four suites, TypeScript, ESLint (three pre-existing inline-style warnings), Bob builds, web-entry graph validation and whitespace checks passed. No checked-in tests/specs were added or changed. Consumer integration passed both products’ Android Debug and iOS Simulator Debug builds, four production Metro bundles, 13 web targets and four browser-extension targets. The upstream example built for Android and iOS, exported for web, and its iOS home screen was launched and visually inspected. Physical-device, signed-release and Android runtime testing were not performed.

Closes #141

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved Android color handling for blur switches and liquid glass views.
    • Added support for standard React Native color values, including alpha colors.
    • Preserved platform-generated colors and reduced color parsing errors.
    • Updated the default glass tint to transparent.
  • Documentation

    • Added migration guidance for Android color format changes.
    • Clarified supported color formats for switch and glass tint colors.

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The color bridge now passes React Native ColorValue values to Android as native color integers. Android setters no longer parse hex strings. Liquid glass defaults now use 'transparent'. Tests and documentation reflect the updated color formats and behavior.

ColorValue bridge

Layer / File(s) Summary
JavaScript color contracts and propagation
src/LiquidGlassView.tsx, src/ReactNative*NativeComponent.ts, src/BlurSwitch.tsx, src/colorUtils.ts, src/__tests__/index.test.tsx
Props and native component contracts now use ColorValue. Switch colors pass directly to Android. Fallback handling preserves platform color values.
Android color setter integration
android/src/main/java/com/sbaiahmed1/reactnativeblur/*
Android managers receive nullable native color integers. Blur and liquid glass views assign them directly and update their effects.
Color format documentation
website/src/content/docs/migration.mdx, website/src/content/props-data/*
Documentation describes supported color formats, alpha conversion, ColorValue, and the transparent default.

Priority: ➖ Normal

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

Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 2e88b

Color properties now use React Native ColorValue values across the native boundary, with documentation covering the updated tint type and transparent default. No merge-blocking risk remains.

Suggested reviewers: danielaraldi, sbaiahmed1

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Linked Issues check ⚠️ Warning The pull request adds React Native color handling and migration documentation, but it does not implement the directly linked issue's required shared Android string parser. The changes remove Android s… Implement and share the Android parser required by [#141]. Support #RGB, #RGBA, #RRGGBB, and #RRGGBBAA, convert RGBA to Android ARGB before Color.parseColor, preserve named-color parsing and invalid-input handling, and apply the parser to g…
Out of Scope Changes check ⚠️ Warning The pull request includes platform-produced ColorValue pass-through and related native-component typing changes. The stated objectives explicitly exclude dynamic platform-color support. The remaining … Remove dynamic platform-color support and its test unless the linked issue and PR objectives are updated to include it. Keep only changes required for the Android parser, affected color paths, and migration documentation.
Docstring Coverage ⚠️ Warning Docstring coverage is 27.27% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 11 functions across 12 files. Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
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Title check ✅ Passed The title clearly identifies the Android color-ordering fix. It is related to the main color-handling change, although the implementation now relies on React Native ColorValue conversion instead of pa…
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The pull request adds React Native color handling and migration documentation, but it does not implement the directly linked issue's required shared Android string parser. The changes remove Android string parsing, shorthand expansion, named-color preservation, and invalid-input handling from the native setters. The required legacy blur-view parser path is also not shown. [#141]

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Implement and share the Android parser required by [#141]. Support #RGB, #RGBA, #RRGGBB, and #RRGGBBAA, convert RGBA to Android ARGB before Color.parseColor, preserve named-color parsing and invalid-input handling, and apply the parser to glass tint, switch setters, and the legacy blur-view setter.

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The pull request includes platform-produced ColorValue pass-through and related native-component typing changes. The stated objectives explicitly exclude dynamic platform-color support. The remaining TypeScript, documentation, and migration changes are related to color handling.

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In `@src/LiquidGlassView.tsx`:
- Line 33: Update the JSDoc for the public glassTintColor prop to document that
it accepts ColorValue, and change the documented default from 'clear' to the
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Please ask Codex to verify whether the documentation and the website align with the new color adjustments, I noticed that this is missing in some places.

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@OskarEichler

Please check for us whether this file is needed by other components. It is initially used to calculate and handle the hexadecimal color for the fallback color. However, I believe it might no longer be necessary for us.

Comment thread src/LiquidGlassView.tsx
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/**
* @description The tint color of the glass effect. Accepts hex color strings
* like '#FFFFFF' or color names. On platforms without native glass it also
* drives the tint of the BlurView/web fallback overlay
*
* @default 'clear'
*
* @platform iOS 26+, Android 13+ (fallback tint everywhere)
*/
glassTintColor?: string;
glassTintColor?: ColorValue;

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The JSDoc for the glassTintColor property has been updated, it now accepts ColorValue instead of just a hex string.

While you're at it, please check if the JSDoc has been updated for the other components as well.

glassTintColor?: CodegenTypes.WithDefault<string, 'clear'>;
glassTintColor?: ColorValue;
glassOpacity?: CodegenTypes.WithDefault<CodegenTypes.Double, 1.0>;
reducedTransparencyFallbackColor?: CodegenTypes.WithDefault<

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The reducedTransparencyFallbackColor property must be a ColorValue too.

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## Android hex color consistency

Glass tint and switch colors now use React Native's `#RGB`, `#RGBA`, `#RRGGBB`, and `#RRGGBBAA` formats. Previously Android treated eight-digit strings as `#AARRGGBB` and rejected shorthand. If you used Android-specific ARGB strings as a workaround, move the alpha byte to the end (for example, `#80FF0000` becomes `#FF000080` for half-transparent red). Six-digit colors are unchanged.


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This migration specification can be changed to:

"Android components now accept ColorValue, not just hex strings, for their colors."

type: '{ false?: ColorValue; true?: ColorValue }',
default: "{ false: '#E5E5EA', true: '#34C759' }",
description: 'Track colors. On Android only `true` is used — QmBlurView auto-calculates the off-state shade from it.',
description: 'Track colors. On Android only `true` is used — QmBlurView auto-calculates the off-state shade from it. Android string colors accept #RGB, #RGBA, #RRGGBB, and #RRGGBBAA.',

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Adjust here too, the Android blur switch accepts ColorValue.

default: "'transparent'",
platform: 'iOS 26+, Android 13+',
description: 'The tint color for the glass effect. Accepts hex colors or color names. Modulated by the glass shader on both platforms; on fallback paths it tints the BlurView/web overlay.',
description: 'The tint color for the glass effect. Accepts #RGB, #RGBA, #RRGGBB, #RRGGBBAA, or color names. Modulated by the glass shader on both platforms; on fallback paths it tints the BlurView/web overlay.',

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Adjust here too, the Android liquid glass accepts ColorValue.

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sbaiahmed1 merged commit b809ad7 into sbaiahmed1:main Sep 19, 2026
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