fix(android): props 2.0 image tintColor=transparent broken - #55535
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Summary: Pull Request resolved: #57668 When enabling the props 2.0 feature flags I noticed that for an `<Image source={...} style={{ tintColor: 'transparent' }} />` the image is actually still showing, instead of becoming transparent. ### The underlying issue All color props are defined as `SharedColor`, where a `SharedColor` has a default value of `0`: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/f3678f51d9873cb19602d7e36a4d8ed71562b9d0/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/graphics/platform/android/react/renderer/graphics/HostPlatformColor.h#L15-L18 https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/f3678f51d9873cb19602d7e36a4d8ed71562b9d0/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/graphics/Color.h#L30-L32 > [!NOTE] > This is a bit confusing to me. `0` is not really an "undefined" color, but its actually "transparent". What we are really saying this way is that all color props have a default value of "transparent". The naming makes me unsure whether this has been intentional. For other use cases, this seems to make sense. Ie. a user expects their text to have a background color of transparent/"nothing". However, we do not expect our image's tint color to have a default color of "transparent". This would hide all our images. With props 2.0 we use the `getDiffProp` function, and when we pass `tintColor: 'transparent'` it will be passed to native as `tintColor: 0`. When we then compare the passed prop's value vs the default value here, it will not include the `tintColor`: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/f3678f51d9873cb19602d7e36a4d8ed71562b9d0/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/image/ImageProps.cpp#L249-L251 `tintColor` really is an optional color prop, and should be treated as such. The best fix I found was therefor making it really an `std::optional`. Let me know if you think otherwise! ## Changelog: <!-- Help reviewers and the release process by writing your own changelog entry. Pick one each for the category and type tags: [ANDROID|GENERAL|IOS|INTERNAL] [BREAKING|ADDED|CHANGED|DEPRECATED|REMOVED|FIXED|SECURITY] - Message For more details, see: https://reactnative.dev/contributing/changelogs-in-pull-requests --> [ANDROID] [CHANGED] - ImageProps make `tintColor` an `std::optional` to support color `transparent` (`0`) with props 2.0 X-link: #55535 Test Plan: - In the RNTester app change one of the Tint Color image examples to use tintColor of "transparent" - The image should be invisible now as all visible pixels turned transparent - Enable the props 2.0 feature flags - Run the same example, notice that the tintColor has not been applied Reviewed By: lenaic Differential Revision: D93140534 Pulled By: bartlomiejbloniarz
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Summary: Pull Request resolved: #57668 When enabling the props 2.0 feature flags I noticed that for an `<Image source={...} style={{ tintColor: 'transparent' }} />` the image is actually still showing, instead of becoming transparent. ### The underlying issue All color props are defined as `SharedColor`, where a `SharedColor` has a default value of `0`: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/f3678f51d9873cb19602d7e36a4d8ed71562b9d0/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/graphics/platform/android/react/renderer/graphics/HostPlatformColor.h#L15-L18 https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/f3678f51d9873cb19602d7e36a4d8ed71562b9d0/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/graphics/Color.h#L30-L32 > [!NOTE] > This is a bit confusing to me. `0` is not really an "undefined" color, but its actually "transparent". What we are really saying this way is that all color props have a default value of "transparent". The naming makes me unsure whether this has been intentional. For other use cases, this seems to make sense. Ie. a user expects their text to have a background color of transparent/"nothing". However, we do not expect our image's tint color to have a default color of "transparent". This would hide all our images. With props 2.0 we use the `getDiffProp` function, and when we pass `tintColor: 'transparent'` it will be passed to native as `tintColor: 0`. When we then compare the passed prop's value vs the default value here, it will not include the `tintColor`: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/f3678f51d9873cb19602d7e36a4d8ed71562b9d0/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/image/ImageProps.cpp#L249-L251 `tintColor` really is an optional color prop, and should be treated as such. The best fix I found was therefor making it really an `std::optional`. Let me know if you think otherwise! ## Changelog: <!-- Help reviewers and the release process by writing your own changelog entry. Pick one each for the category and type tags: [ANDROID|GENERAL|IOS|INTERNAL] [BREAKING|ADDED|CHANGED|DEPRECATED|REMOVED|FIXED|SECURITY] - Message For more details, see: https://reactnative.dev/contributing/changelogs-in-pull-requests --> [ANDROID] [CHANGED] - ImageProps make `tintColor` an `std::optional` to support color `transparent` (`0`) with props 2.0 X-link: #55535 Test Plan: - In the RNTester app change one of the Tint Color image examples to use tintColor of "transparent" - The image should be invisible now as all visible pixels turned transparent - Enable the props 2.0 feature flags - Run the same example, notice that the tintColor has not been applied Reviewed By: lenaic Differential Revision: D93140534 Pulled By: bartlomiejbloniarz
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Summary:
When enabling the props 2.0 feature flags I noticed that for an
<Image source={...} style={{ tintColor: 'transparent' }} />the image is actually still showing, instead of becoming transparent.The underlying issue
All color props are defined as
SharedColor, where aSharedColorhas a default value of0:https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/f3678f51d9873cb19602d7e36a4d8ed71562b9d0/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/graphics/platform/android/react/renderer/graphics/HostPlatformColor.h#L15-L18
https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/f3678f51d9873cb19602d7e36a4d8ed71562b9d0/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/graphics/Color.h#L30-L32
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This is a bit confusing to me.
0is not really an "undefined" color, but its actually "transparent". What we are really saying this way is that all color props have a default value of "transparent". The naming makes me unsure whether this has been intentional.For other use cases, this seems to make sense. Ie. a user expects their text to have a background color of transparent/"nothing". However, we do not expect our image's tint color to have a default color of "transparent". This would hide all our images.
With props 2.0 we use the
getDiffPropfunction, and when we passtintColor: 'transparent'it will be passed to native astintColor: 0. When we then compare the passed prop's value vs the default value here, it will not include thetintColor:https://github.com/facebook/react-native/blob/f3678f51d9873cb19602d7e36a4d8ed71562b9d0/packages/react-native/ReactCommon/react/renderer/components/image/ImageProps.cpp#L249-L251
tintColorreally is an optional color prop, and should be treated as such. The best fix I found was therefor making it really anstd::optional. Let me know if you think otherwise!Changelog:
[ANDROID] [CHANGED] - ImageProps make
tintColoranstd::optionalto support colortransparent(0) with props 2.0Test Plan: