React Native Dynamic Theme 🎨

Bring Material 3 Dynamic Theming to Your React Native Apps

A powerful React Native library that enables seamless Material 3 dynamic theming, automatically adapting to your users' system preferences and wallpaper colors on Android 12+.

✨ Features

• 📱 System-Aware: Automatically adapts to light/dark mode
• 🎨 Material You Support: Leverages Android's dynamic theming for native feel
• 🎯 Complete Color Palettes: Access to full tonal palettes with all contrast levels
• ⚡ Performance Optimized: Efficient hooks and memoization
• 🔧 Custom Color Generation: Create themes from any source color
• 📦 TypeScript Support: Fully typed for better development experience
• 🌈 Extended Schemes: Medium and high contrast variants included

🚀 Quick Start

Installation

npm install react-native-dynamic-theme

or

yarn add react-native-dynamic-theme

Basic Usage

import React from 'react';
import { View, Text, useColorScheme } from 'react-native';
import { getDynamicColorScheme } from 'react-native-dynamic-theme';

const App = () => {
  const systemColorScheme = useColorScheme();
  const dynamicColors = getDynamicColorScheme('#006971');
  
  const colors = systemColorScheme === 'dark' 
    ? dynamicColors.dark 
    : dynamicColors.light;
  
  return (
    <View style={{ backgroundColor: colors.background, flex: 1 }}>
      <Text style={{ color: colors.onBackground }}>
        Hello Material You! 🎨
      </Text>
    </View>
  );
};

export default App;

📖 Documentation

📚 Complete Documentation

• Getting Started
• API Reference
• Examples
• Advanced Usage
• Color System Guide

🎯 Key Functions

getDynamicColorScheme(fallbackColor?: string)

Retrieves the dynamic color scheme from the device or generates one from a fallback color.

// Uses device wallpaper colors on Android 12+, fallback on older versions
const colors = getDynamicColorScheme('#006971');

// Returns null if no fallback provided and device doesn't support dynamic theming  
const colors = getDynamicColorScheme();

getExtendedDynamicScheme(fallbackColor?: string)

Gets extended scheme with contrast variants and tonal palettes.

const extendedScheme = getExtendedDynamicScheme('#006971');

// Access different contrast levels
const standardColors = extendedScheme.schemes.light;
const highContrastColors = extendedScheme.schemes.lightHighContrast;

// Access tonal palettes
const primaryPalette = extendedScheme.palettes.primary;

getExtendedDynamicSchemeFromSourceColor(sourceColor: string)

Generate complete theme from any source color.

const customScheme = getExtendedDynamicSchemeFromSourceColor('#FF5722');

🎨 Example: Theme Switcher

import React, { useState } from 'react';
import { View, TouchableOpacity, Text, useColorScheme } from 'react-native';
import { getExtendedDynamicSchemeFromSourceColor } from 'react-native-dynamic-theme';

const ThemeSwitcher = () => {
  const systemColorScheme = useColorScheme();
  const [sourceColor, setSourceColor] = useState('#006971');
  
  const colorOptions = ['#006971', '#FF5722', '#2196F3', '#9C27B0'];
  const dynamicScheme = getExtendedDynamicSchemeFromSourceColor(sourceColor);
  const colors = systemColorScheme === 'dark' 
    ? dynamicScheme.dark 
    : dynamicScheme.light;

  return (
    <View style={{ backgroundColor: colors.background, flex: 1, padding: 20 }}>
      <Text style={{ color: colors.onBackground, fontSize: 24, marginBottom: 20 }}>
        Pick a Color Theme
      </Text>
      
      <View style={{ flexDirection: 'row', marginBottom: 20 }}>
        {colorOptions.map((color) => (
          <TouchableOpacity
            key={color}
            style={{
              backgroundColor: color,
              width: 50,
              height: 50,
              borderRadius: 25,
              marginRight: 10,
              borderWidth: sourceColor === color ? 3 : 0,
              borderColor: colors.outline,
            }}
            onPress={() => setSourceColor(color)}
          />
        ))}
      </View>
      
      <View style={{
        backgroundColor: colors.primaryContainer,
        padding: 16,
        borderRadius: 12,
      }}>
        <Text style={{ color: colors.onPrimaryContainer }}>
          This container adapts to your selected color!
        </Text>
      </View>
    </View>
  );
};

🔧 Platform Support

• React Native: 0.60+
• Android: API 21+ (dynamic colors on API 31+)
• iOS: 11.0+ (custom color generation)
• TypeScript: 4.0+

Platform Behavior

• Android 12+: Uses actual device wallpaper colors via Material You
• Android < 12: Generates theme from fallback color
• iOS: Generates theme from fallback color (Material You not available)

🎨 Material 3 Color System

The library provides access to the complete Material 3 color system:

Semantic Color Roles

• Primary, Secondary, Tertiary colors and their containers
• Error colors and containers
• Background and surface colors
• Surface containers at different elevation levels
• Outline colors for borders and dividers

Example Color Usage

const { colors } = useTheme();

// Main actions
backgroundColor: colors.primary
color: colors.onPrimary

// Supporting actions  
backgroundColor: colors.secondaryContainer
color: colors.onSecondaryContainer

// Error states
backgroundColor: colors.errorContainer
color: colors.onErrorContainer

// Surfaces
backgroundColor: colors.surface
color: colors.onSurface

🛠 Advanced Usage

Theme Provider Pattern

import React, { createContext, useContext } from 'react';
import { useColorScheme } from 'react-native';
import { getDynamicColorScheme } from 'react-native-dynamic-theme';

const ThemeContext = createContext();

export const ThemeProvider = ({ children }) => {
  const systemColorScheme = useColorScheme();
  const dynamicColors = getDynamicColorScheme('#006971');
  
  const colors = systemColorScheme === 'dark' 
    ? dynamicColors.dark 
    : dynamicColors.light;
  
  return (
    <ThemeContext.Provider value={{ colors, isDark: systemColorScheme === 'dark' }}>
      {children}
    </ThemeContext.Provider>
  );
};

export const useTheme = () => useContext(ThemeContext);

Performance Optimization

import { useMemo } from 'react';

const MyComponent = ({ sourceColor }) => {
  // Memoize expensive color calculations
  const colors = useMemo(() => {
    return getDynamicColorScheme(sourceColor);
  }, [sourceColor]);
  
  return <View style={{ backgroundColor: colors.light.background }} />;
};

🤝 Contributing

Contributions are welcome! Please feel free to submit a Pull Request.

1. Fork the repository
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/AmazingFeature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -m 'Add some AmazingFeature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/AmazingFeature)
5. Open a Pull Request

📄 License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

🙏 Acknowledgments

• Built with Material Color Utilities
• Inspired by Android's Material You design system
• Thanks to the React Native community

📞 Support

• Documentation: https://react-native-dynamic-theme.vercel.app
• Issues: GitHub Issues
• Discussions: GitHub Discussions

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Made with ❤️ by Fouad Magdy