Arthur Lee – Building dark mode with React Native at scale | App.js Conf 2023

Dark mode may be easy to implement if you are building a brand new React Native app, but what if you already have a large codebase with many components and screens? In this session, we’ll talk about techniques you can use to implement dark mode at scale, including using a React Native feature you might not have heard of.

[BłażejLewandowski-kc]

I don't get the point of smooth theme change animation on iOS. If I switch my theme written in JS, the screen rerenders, but it looks as smooth as on presented video.

[bryanltobing]

Does that mean it won't work with code push since the color processing occurs in the native layer?

[engelshentenawy]

PlatformColor doesn't work well and has a ton of issues as far as I remember, I would generally advice against it.

[thespacejedi]

tailwind's solution is miles better

[haseeb_ahmed]

Not the best way to implement dark mode in react native.