@apexnative/navigation 1.0.0-alpha.0 → 1.0.0-alpha.10

package/ios/React/Slots/ANNSlotComponentView.mm

@@ -8,11 +8,13 @@
 
 using namespace facebook::react;
 
+@interface ANNSlotComponentView () <ANNSlotView>
+@end
+
 @implementation ANNSlotComponentView {
     // The React children live here. It waits hidden inside the slot, then moves into the container.
     ANNSlotContentView *_contentView;
     ANNSlotShadowNode::ConcreteState::Shared _state;
-    BOOL _observing;
     // The layout that measures the content was asked for once.
     BOOL _measureAsked;
 }
@@ -33,19 +35,8 @@ using namespace facebook::react;
     return self;
 }
 
-- (void)dealloc {
-    [NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter removeObserver:self];
-}
-
 - (void)updateProps:(const Props::Shared &)props oldProps:(const Props::Shared &)oldProps {
     [super updateProps:props oldProps:oldProps];
-    if (!_observing) {
-        _observing = YES;
-        [NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter addObserver:self
-                                               selector:@selector(containerDidChange:)
-                                                   name:ANNSlotContainerDidChangeNotification
-                                                 object:nil];
-    }
     [self attachContent];
 }
 
@@ -54,13 +45,23 @@ using namespace facebook::react;
     [self attachContent];
 }
 
-- (void)containerDidChange:(NSNotification *)notification {
-    if ([notification.object isEqual:self.nativeId]) {
+#pragma mark - ANNSlotView
+
+- (void)slotContainerDidChange:(NSString *)slotId {
+    if ([slotId isEqualToString:self.nativeId]) {
         [self attachContent];
     }
 }
 
+#pragma mark - Content
+
 - (void)attachContent {
+    // The view hears the changes of the container under the slot id it has now, and no other.
+    if (self.nativeId != nil) {
+        [ANNSlotContainers registerSlotView:self forSlotId:self.nativeId];
+    } else {
+        [ANNSlotContainers unregisterSlotView:self];
+    }
     UIView *container = self.nativeId ? [ANNSlotContainers containerForSlotId:self.nativeId] : nil;
     UIView *target = container ?: self;
     if (_contentView.superview != target) {
@@ -108,15 +109,21 @@ using namespace facebook::react;
     return nil;
 }
 
-// A recycled slot waits for another screen: it stops listening and drops the old screen's state.
+// A recycled slot waits for another screen: it leaves its slot id and drops the old screen's state. Its new props put
+// it under the new id.
 - (void)prepareForRecycle {
     [super prepareForRecycle];
-    [NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter removeObserver:self];
-    _observing = NO;
+    [ANNSlotContainers unregisterSlotView:self];
     _measureAsked = NO;
     _state.reset();
     [_contentView removeFromSuperview];
     _contentView.hidden = YES;
 }
 
+// An unmounted slot that Fabric doesn't keep for reuse leaves its slot id too.
+- (void)invalidate {
+    [super invalidate];
+    [ANNSlotContainers unregisterSlotView:self];
+}
+
 @end

package/ios/React/Slots/ANNSlotContainers.h

@@ -2,9 +2,6 @@
 
 NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN
 
-/// Posted when the container of a slot appears or changes its size; the object is the slot id.
-extern NSNotificationName const ANNSlotContainerDidChangeNotification;
-
 /// A component named with this prefix is a screen of the app's one React tree: it has no React surface of its own,
 /// and the slot of the tree with its componentId shows it. Events and the state give its name without the prefix.
 extern NSString *const ANNSlotPrefix;
@@ -17,8 +14,14 @@ NSString *ANNComponentNameWithoutSlotPrefix(NSString *name);
 - (void)slotContentDidMount;
 @end
 
-/// The native containers the slots of the app's React tree show their children in, by slot id. A destroyed
-/// container drops out on its own.
+/// A slot view of the app's React tree: it hears when the container of its slot id appears, goes or changes its size.
+@protocol ANNSlotView <NSObject>
+- (void)slotContainerDidChange:(NSString *)slotId;
+@end
+
+/// The native containers the slots of the app's React tree show their children in, by slot id, and the slot views by
+/// the same id: a change of a container goes straight to the views of its id. A destroyed container and a deallocated
+/// view drop out on their own. Main queue only.
 @interface ANNSlotContainers : NSObject
 
 + (void)setContainer:(UIView *)container forSlotId:(NSString *)slotId;
@@ -26,9 +29,14 @@ NSString *ANNComponentNameWithoutSlotPrefix(NSString *name);
 /// The container goes: its slot takes its content back.
 + (void)removeContainerForSlotId:(NSString *)slotId;
 
-/// The container of a slot appeared or changed its size.
+/// The container of a slot appeared or changed its size: the slot views under its id, and only they, hear it.
 + (void)containerDidChange:(NSString *)slotId;
 
+/// The slot view goes under its slot id, and out from under the id it had. Held weakly.
++ (void)registerSlotView:(id<ANNSlotView>)view forSlotId:(NSString *)slotId;
+/// The slot view unmounted or lost its slot id: no change of a container reaches it.
++ (void)unregisterSlotView:(id<ANNSlotView>)view;
+
 @end
 
 NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_END

package/ios/React/Slots/ANNSlotContainers.mm

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #import "ANNSlotContainers.h"
+#import "ANNAssert.h"
 
-NSNotificationName const ANNSlotContainerDidChangeNotification = @"ANNSlotContainerDidChange";
 NSString *const ANNSlotPrefix = @"slot:";
 
 NSString *ANNComponentNameWithoutSlotPrefix(NSString *name) {
@@ -32,8 +32,81 @@ NSString *ANNComponentNameWithoutSlotPrefix(NSString *name) {
     [self containerDidChange:slotId];
 }
 
+// The slot views by slot id, weakly, in the order they came. Two live views under one id both stay and both hear
+// the change, in that order, as every view with the id did when the change went to all of them.
++ (NSMutableDictionary<NSString *, NSPointerArray *> *)slotViews {
+    static NSMutableDictionary *slotViews;
+    static dispatch_once_t once;
+    dispatch_once(&once, ^{
+      slotViews = [NSMutableDictionary dictionary];
+    });
+    return slotViews;
+}
+
+// The id each slot view is under, so a view is under one id at a time.
++ (NSMapTable<id<ANNSlotView>, NSString *> *)slotIds {
+    static NSMapTable *slotIds;
+    static dispatch_once_t once;
+    dispatch_once(&once, ^{
+      slotIds = [[NSMapTable alloc]
+          initWithKeyOptions:NSPointerFunctionsWeakMemory | NSPointerFunctionsObjectPointerPersonality
+                valueOptions:NSPointerFunctionsStrongMemory
+                    capacity:0];
+    });
+    return slotIds;
+}
+
 + (void)containerDidChange:(NSString *)slotId {
-    [NSNotificationCenter.defaultCenter postNotificationName:ANNSlotContainerDidChangeNotification object:slotId];
+    ANNAssertMainQueue();
+    // A copy: a view may register or leave while it hears the change.
+    for (id<ANNSlotView> view in [self slotViewsForSlotId:slotId]) {
+        [view slotContainerDidChange:slotId];
+    }
+}
+
++ (void)registerSlotView:(id<ANNSlotView>)view forSlotId:(NSString *)slotId {
+    ANNAssertMainQueue();
+    if ([[self.slotIds objectForKey:view] isEqualToString:slotId]) {
+        return;
+    }
+    [self unregisterSlotView:view];
+    [self.slotIds setObject:slotId forKey:view];
+    NSPointerArray *views = self.slotViews[slotId];
+    if (views == nil) {
+        views = [NSPointerArray weakObjectsPointerArray];
+        self.slotViews[slotId] = views;
+    }
+    [views addPointer:(__bridge void *)view];
+}
+
++ (void)unregisterSlotView:(id<ANNSlotView>)view {
+    ANNAssertMainQueue();
+    NSString *slotId = [self.slotIds objectForKey:view];
+    if (slotId == nil) {
+        return;
+    }
+    [self.slotIds removeObjectForKey:view];
+    [self pruneSlotId:slotId dropping:view];
+}
+
++ (NSArray<id<ANNSlotView>> *)slotViewsForSlotId:(NSString *)slotId {
+    [self pruneSlotId:slotId dropping:nil];
+    return self.slotViews[slotId].allObjects ?: @[];
+}
+
+// Drops the deallocated views under the id and `view`; an id with no views left goes. By hand rather than with
+// `compact`, which keeps the nil entries of a weak pointer array.
++ (void)pruneSlotId:(NSString *)slotId dropping:(nullable id<ANNSlotView>)view {
+    NSPointerArray *views = self.slotViews[slotId];
+    for (NSInteger index = (NSInteger)views.count - 1; index >= 0; index--) {
+        void *pointer = [views pointerAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index];
+        if (pointer == NULL || pointer == (__bridge void *)view) {
+            [views removePointerAtIndex:(NSUInteger)index];
+        }
+    }
+    if (views != nil && views.count == 0) {
+        [self.slotViews removeObjectForKey:slotId];
+    }
 }
 
 @end

package/ios/React/Slots/ANNSlotHost.mm

@@ -35,9 +35,7 @@ static RCTFabricSurface *ANNSlotHostSurface;
 
     // Hidden and without a root view controller: it takes no touches and has no say in the orientation or the status
     // bar (a visible window above the app does). The tree still mounts; the slots move their content into screens.
-    UIWindowScene *scene = ANNUtils.mainWindow.windowScene;
-    UIWindow *window = scene ? [[UIWindow alloc] initWithWindowScene:scene]
-                             : [[UIWindow alloc] initWithFrame:ANNUtils.mainScreen.bounds];
+    UIWindow *window = [ANNUtils makeWindowOfClass:UIWindow.class];
     surfaceView.frame = window.bounds;
     [window addSubview:surfaceView];
     window.hidden = YES;

package/ios/React/Slots/ANNSlotScreenView.mm

@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 #import "ANNScreenAppearance.h"
 #import "ANNScreenReadiness.h"
 #import "ANNSlotHost.h"
+#import "ANNSurfaceHostingView.h"
 #import "../../cpp/react/renderer/components/ApexNavigationSpec/ANNSlotState.h"
 #import <React/RCTConstants.h>
 #import <React/RCTSurfacePresenter.h>
@@ -62,12 +63,17 @@
     return nil;
 }
 
-// The slot lays its content out at this size: every change goes to it (rotation, a sheet detent, the bars).
+// The slot lays its content out at this size: every change goes to it (rotation, a sheet detent, the bars). Its state
+// update mounts synchronously, here: during a rotation the content takes its new layout at once, as a screen's surface
+// does (`+[ANNSurfaceHostingView layOutContent:]`).
 - (void)layoutSubviews {
     [super layoutSubviews];
     if (!CGSizeEqualToSize(self.bounds.size, _lastSize)) {
         _lastSize = self.bounds.size;
-        [ANNSlotContainers containerDidChange:_componentId];
+        NSString *componentId = _componentId;
+        [ANNSurfaceHostingView layOutContent:^{
+          [ANNSlotContainers containerDidChange:componentId];
+        }];
     }
 }
 

package/ios/TopBar/ANNBackButtonPresenter.mm

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 #import "ANNExternalViewController.h"
 #import "ANNIconButtonImage.h"
 #import "ANNStackController.h"
+#import "ANNTabsDesign.h"
 #import <objc/runtime.h>
 
 // The item below that the core configured: what it set may go again.
@@ -141,10 +142,8 @@ static const void *ANNBackButtonConfiguredKey = &ANNBackButtonConfiguredKey;
     ANNBackBarButtonItem *item = [ANNBackBarButtonItem new];
     item.allowsMenu = [backButton.enableMenu withDefault:YES];
     item.style = UIBarButtonItemStylePlain;
-    BOOL before26 = YES;
-    if (@available(iOS 26.0, *)) {
-        before26 = NO;
-    }
+    // The compatibility mode of iOS 26 shows the title below too, as the design before it.
+    BOOL before26 = !ANNTabsDesign.isGlass;
     item.title = title ?: (before26 ? belowTitle : nil);
     UIColor *background = [self iconBackgroundColorOf:backButton];
     if (background) {
@@ -165,7 +164,9 @@ static const void *ANNBackButtonConfiguredKey = &ANNBackButtonConfiguredKey;
                                      [iconBackground.height withDefault:0])
                    insets:UIEdgeInsetsZero];
         if (@available(iOS 26.0, *)) {
-            item.hidesSharedBackground = [backButton.hideSharedBackground withDefault:YES];
+            if (ANNTabsDesign.isGlass) {
+                item.hidesSharedBackground = [backButton.hideSharedBackground withDefault:YES];
+            }
         }
     }
     return item;

package/ios/TopBar/ANNBarAppearance.h

@@ -45,7 +45,8 @@ typedef struct {
 /// (a clear color is a clear bar). The one rule for the bar, its color in the list and the top edge effect.
 + (nullable UIColor *)solidColorOf:(nullable Color *)color traits:(UITraitCollection *)traits;
 
-/// A 1×1 image of `color` resolved for `traits`.
+/// A 1×1 image of `color` resolved for `traits`, with a variant for each style: the same image for the same resolved
+/// colors, so a look filled again equals the one before (as the back button's tinted arrow).
 + (UIImage *)imageOfColor:(UIColor *)color traits:(UITraitCollection *)traits;
 
 @end

package/ios/TopBar/ANNBarAppearance.mm

@@ -1,5 +1,12 @@
 #import "ANNBarAppearance.h"
 #import "ANNBackButtonPresenter.h"
+#import "ANNTabsDesign.h"
+#import <objc/runtime.h>
+
+// The icon an indicator was tinted from: an entry found by the icon's address counts only for that icon. An indicator
+// that is the icon itself (already an original image) carries nothing: the icon must not hold itself, and it may be
+// the image the options' cache keeps.
+static const void *ANNIndicatorIconKey = &ANNIndicatorIconKey;
 
 // UIKit's fonts of the places the options build over: the title of the row, the large title, the text of the back
 // button.
@@ -28,6 +35,27 @@ static BOOL ANNIsClear(UIColor *color, UITraitCollection *traits) {
     return CGColorGetAlpha([color resolvedColorWithTraitCollection:traits].CGColor) == 0;
 }
 
+// The images the looks are made of, by what they are drawn from, so a look filled again from the same options is
+// equal to the one before (UIKit compares appearances by value, images by identity) and nothing is set again. Main
+// queue; a memory warning empties it.
+static NSCache<id, UIImage *> *ANNLookImages(void) {
+    static NSCache<id, UIImage *> *images;
+    static dispatch_once_t once;
+    dispatch_once(&once, ^{
+      images = [NSCache new];
+      images.countLimit = 64;
+    });
+    return images;
+}
+
+// A color of the options as a key: a pair by its sides (its dynamic color is made anew), else its value.
+static NSArray *ANNColorKeyOf(Color *color) {
+    if (color.light || color.dark) {
+        return @[ color.light ?: NSNull.null, color.dark ?: NSNull.null ];
+    }
+    return @[ color.value ?: NSNull.null ];
+}
+
 static NSDictionary<NSAttributedStringKey, id> *ANNTextAttributes(ANNFontOptions *font,
                                                                  Color *color,
                                                                  UIFont *placeFont) {
@@ -104,16 +132,14 @@ static NSDictionary<NSAttributedStringKey, id> *ANNTextAttributes(ANNFontOptions
     return resolved && !ANNIsClear(resolved, traits) ? resolved : nil;
 }
 
+// The glass bar is translucent by default; the design before iOS 26 (and its compatibility mode) opaque.
 + (BOOL)translucentByDefault {
-    if (@available(iOS 26.0, *)) {
-        return YES;
-    }
-    return NO;
+    return ANNTabsDesign.isGlass;
 }
 
-// `color` beats `blur` and `translucent`; a clear color is a clear bar. On iOS 26 a color is a solid bar: a clear base
-// with the color and a 1×1 image of it, without the system effect. `blur` is the system's chrome material on a clear
-// base, with no view of its own in the bar.
+// `color` beats `blur` and `translucent`; a clear color is a clear bar. On the glass of iOS 26 a color is a solid
+// bar: a clear base with the color and a 1×1 image of it, without the system effect. `blur` is the system's chrome
+// material on a clear base, with no view of its own in the bar.
 + (void)configure:(UINavigationBarAppearance *)appearance
             color:(UIColor *)color
              blur:(BOOL)blur
@@ -124,7 +150,7 @@ static NSDictionary<NSAttributedStringKey, id> *ANNTextAttributes(ANNFontOptions
             [appearance configureWithTransparentBackground];
             return;
         }
-        if (@available(iOS 26.0, *)) {
+        if (ANNTabsDesign.isGlass) {
             [appearance configureWithTransparentBackground];
             appearance.backgroundEffect = nil;
             appearance.backgroundColor = color;
@@ -219,23 +245,51 @@ static NSDictionary<NSAttributedStringKey, id> *ANNTextAttributes(ANNFontOptions
         if (!color) {
             return nil;
         }
-        icon = [UIImage systemImageNamed:@"chevron.backward"];
+        symbol = @"chevron.backward";
+        icon = [UIImage systemImageNamed:symbol];
         isSymbol = YES;
     }
+    // A symbol by its name; an image by its object, which the entry keeps, so its address is never another's.
+    id iconKey = isSymbol ? symbol : [NSValue valueWithNonretainedObject:icon];
+    NSArray *key = @[
+        @"back", iconKey, color ? ANNColorKeyOf(backButton.color) : NSNull.null
+    ];
+    NSCache<id, UIImage *> *images = ANNLookImages();
+    UIImage *cached = [images objectForKey:key];
+    if (cached && (isSymbol || cached == icon ||
+                   objc_getAssociatedObject(cached, ANNIndicatorIconKey) == icon)) {
+        return cached;
+    }
+    UIImage *indicator = nil;
     if (color) {
-        return [icon imageWithTintColor:color renderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
+        indicator = [icon imageWithTintColor:color
+                               renderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
+    } else {
+        indicator =
+            isSymbol ? icon : [icon imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
+    }
+    if (!isSymbol && indicator != icon) {
+        objc_setAssociatedObject(indicator, ANNIndicatorIconKey, icon,
+                                 OBJC_ASSOCIATION_RETAIN_NONATOMIC);
     }
-    return isSymbol ? icon : [icon imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
+    [images setObject:indicator forKey:key];
+    return indicator;
 }
 
+// One for the app: every look that hides the arrow holds the same image.
 + (UIImage *)emptyIndicator {
-    UIGraphicsImageRendererFormat *format = [UIGraphicsImageRendererFormat preferredFormat];
-    format.opaque = NO;
-    UIGraphicsImageRenderer *renderer =
-        [[UIGraphicsImageRenderer alloc] initWithSize:CGSizeMake(1, 1) format:format];
-    UIImage *empty = [renderer imageWithActions:^(UIGraphicsImageRendererContext *context){
-    }];
-    return [empty imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
+    static UIImage *empty;
+    static dispatch_once_t once;
+    dispatch_once(&once, ^{
+      UIGraphicsImageRendererFormat *format = [UIGraphicsImageRendererFormat preferredFormat];
+      format.opaque = NO;
+      UIGraphicsImageRenderer *renderer =
+          [[UIGraphicsImageRenderer alloc] initWithSize:CGSizeMake(1, 1) format:format];
+      UIImage *drawn = [renderer imageWithActions:^(UIGraphicsImageRendererContext *context){
+      }];
+      empty = [drawn imageWithRenderingMode:UIImageRenderingModeAlwaysOriginal];
+    });
+    return empty;
 }
 
 + (UIColor *)pinnedTitleColor:(Color *)color traits:(UITraitCollection *)traits {
@@ -244,8 +298,44 @@ static NSDictionary<NSAttributedStringKey, id> *ANNTextAttributes(ANNFontOptions
 }
 
 // The 1×1 picture of the color in both styles: the bar's image view picks the variant of its own style, so a `{ light,
-// dark }` color follows a switch of the style without a new appearance.
+// dark }` color follows a switch of the style without a new appearance. Made once for the two resolved colors and the
+// style picked.
 + (UIImage *)imageOfColor:(UIColor *)color traits:(UITraitCollection *)traits {
+    UITraitCollection *light =
+        [UITraitCollection traitCollectionWithUserInterfaceStyle:UIUserInterfaceStyleLight];
+    UITraitCollection *dark =
+        [UITraitCollection traitCollectionWithUserInterfaceStyle:UIUserInterfaceStyleDark];
+    // Each variant is drawn with the window's other traits (contrast, elevation) and registered by its style only.
+    NSArray<UITraitCollection *> *base = traits ? @[ traits ] : @[];
+    UITraitCollection *lightTraits = [UITraitCollection
+        traitCollectionWithTraitsFromCollections:[base arrayByAddingObject:light]];
+    UITraitCollection *darkTraits = [UITraitCollection
+        traitCollectionWithTraitsFromCollections:[base arrayByAddingObject:dark]];
+    UIColor *lightColor = [color resolvedColorWithTraitCollection:lightTraits];
+    UIColor *darkColor = [color resolvedColorWithTraitCollection:darkTraits];
+    BOOL isDark = traits.userInterfaceStyle == UIUserInterfaceStyleDark;
+    NSArray *key = @[ @"color", lightColor, darkColor, @(isDark) ];
+    NSCache<id, UIImage *> *images = ANNLookImages();
+    UIImage *cached = [images objectForKey:key];
+    if (cached) {
+        return cached;
+    }
+    UIImage *image = [self drawImageOf:color
+                                 light:light
+                                  dark:dark
+                           lightTraits:lightTraits
+                            darkTraits:darkTraits
+                                isDark:isDark];
+    [images setObject:image forKey:key];
+    return image;
+}
+
++ (UIImage *)drawImageOf:(UIColor *)color
+                   light:(UITraitCollection *)light
+                    dark:(UITraitCollection *)dark
+             lightTraits:(UITraitCollection *)lightTraits
+              darkTraits:(UITraitCollection *)darkTraits
+                  isDark:(BOOL)isDark {
     UIImage * (^draw)(UITraitCollection *) = ^UIImage *(UITraitCollection *variant) {
       UIColor *resolved = [color resolvedColorWithTraitCollection:variant];
       UIGraphicsImageRendererFormat *format = [UIGraphicsImageRendererFormat preferredFormat];
@@ -257,20 +347,11 @@ static NSDictionary<NSAttributedStringKey, id> *ANNTextAttributes(ANNFontOptions
         [context fillRect:CGRectMake(0, 0, 1, 1)];
       }];
     };
-    UITraitCollection *light =
-        [UITraitCollection traitCollectionWithUserInterfaceStyle:UIUserInterfaceStyleLight];
-    UITraitCollection *dark =
-        [UITraitCollection traitCollectionWithUserInterfaceStyle:UIUserInterfaceStyleDark];
-    // Each variant is drawn with the window's other traits (contrast, elevation) and registered by its style only.
-    NSArray<UITraitCollection *> *base = traits ? @[ traits ] : @[];
-    UIImage *lightImage =
-        draw([UITraitCollection traitCollectionWithTraitsFromCollections:[base arrayByAddingObject:light]]);
-    UIImage *darkImage =
-        draw([UITraitCollection traitCollectionWithTraitsFromCollections:[base arrayByAddingObject:dark]]);
+    UIImage *lightImage = draw(lightTraits);
+    UIImage *darkImage = draw(darkTraits);
     UIImageAsset *asset = [UIImageAsset new];
     [asset registerImage:lightImage withTraitCollection:light];
     [asset registerImage:darkImage withTraitCollection:dark];
-    BOOL isDark = traits.userInterfaceStyle == UIUserInterfaceStyleDark;
     UIImage *picked = [asset imageWithTraitCollection:isDark ? dark : light];
     return picked ?: (isDark ? darkImage : lightImage);
 }

package/ios/TopBar/ANNBarBackgroundComponent.mm

@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 #import "ANNBarBackgroundComponent.h"
+#import <React/RCTLog.h>
 #import <objc/runtime.h>
 
 // The background a bar shows now.
@@ -13,6 +14,21 @@ static UIView *ANNBackgroundHostOf(UINavigationBar *bar) {
             return subview;
         }
     }
+#if DEBUG
+    // The name is UIKit's private one: a system that renames the view puts the components on the bar itself. Told
+    // once, in development, and only for a bar that has its views already (one not laid out yet has none).
+    static BOOL told = NO;
+    if (!told && bar.subviews.count > 0) {
+        told = YES;
+        NSMutableArray<NSString *> *names = [NSMutableArray new];
+        for (UIView *subview in bar.subviews) {
+            [names addObject:NSStringFromClass(subview.class)];
+        }
+        RCTLogWarn(@"[ApexNavigation] the bar has no view named …BarBackground, so a background "
+                   @"component goes on the bar itself at index 1; its views: %@",
+                   [names componentsJoinedByString:@", "]);
+    }
+#endif
     return bar;
 }
 

package/ios/TopBar/ANNBarButtonComponentView.h

@@ -4,10 +4,10 @@
 NS_ASSUME_NONNULL_BEGIN
 
 /// The slot of a React button (`topBar.leftButtons[].component`) as the custom view of its bar item. It takes a content
-/// view (`UIView<ANNComponentProtocol>`), never a class of the roots. On iOS 26 without `UIDesignRequiresCompatibility`
-/// in the app's Info.plist the slot is 44 pt high and as wide as the content, at least 44 pt; the width follows the
-/// content both ways (measured after every mount; a change over 0.5 pt only), and the slot's constraints live with the
-/// view, so a new item built around it reuses them. With that key and before iOS 26: the content's size, no
+/// view (`UIView<ANNComponentProtocol>`), never a class of the roots. In the glass design of iOS 26 (`ANNTabsDesign`)
+/// the slot is 44 pt high and as wide as the content, at least 44 pt; the width follows the content both ways
+/// (measured after every mount; a change over 0.5 pt only), and the slot's constraints live with the view, so a new
+/// item built around it reuses them. In the compatibility mode and before iOS 26: the content's size, no
 /// constraints. A button rendered before the screen shows enters at its width. The core measures only the surface and
 /// never moves the views inside it: the JS wrapper centres them.
 @interface ANNBarButtonComponentView : UIView

package/ios/TopBar/ANNBarButtonComponentView.mm

@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ static const CGFloat ANNBarButtonSlotHeight = 44;
 static const CGFloat ANNBarButtonSlotMinimumWidth = 44;
 static const CGFloat ANNBarButtonWidthTolerance = 0.5;
 
-// The slot of iOS 26's bar: unless the app keeps the earlier design (`UIDesignRequiresCompatibility`).
+// The slot of iOS 26's bar: unless UIKit keeps the earlier design for the app (`ANNTabsDesign`).
 static BOOL ANNUsesSlotConstraints(void) {
     return ANNTabsDesign.isGlass;
 }

package/ios/TopBar/ANNBarButtons.h

@@ -14,10 +14,11 @@ typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, ANNBarButtonsSide) {
 
 /// The buttons of one screen's bar and toolbar (`topBar.leftButtons[].*`, the side options, `overflowMenu`,
 /// `toolbar.buttons`): built from the resolved options, whole, at the screen's creation, at each appearance and at a
-/// merge of a side. Each button is an `ANNUIBarButtonItem` of the first kind its fields give (React view → icon and
-/// text → image button → SF Symbol → image → text → system item); a button without `id` is not placed. Side colors go
+/// merge of a side, when anything the side's build reads changed or the item no longer holds what it put there.
+/// Each button is an `ANNUIBarButtonItem` of the first kind its fields give (React view → icon and text → image
+/// button → SF Symbol → image → text → system item); a button without `id` is not placed. Side colors go
 /// onto what is built, never into the options; what the user chose (a toggle, a menu's check) goes into the screen's
-/// own options. The React buttons' slots are kept by component id, so a button built again reuses its slot. Main queue.
+/// user layer. The React buttons' slots are kept by component id, so a button built again reuses its slot. Main queue.
 @interface ANNBarButtons : NSObject
 
 - (instancetype)initWithScreen:(UIViewController *)screen
@@ -27,7 +28,8 @@ typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, ANNBarButtonsSide) {
 + (instancetype)new NS_UNAVAILABLE;
 
 /// Sets `side` of the screen's item (left, right, center) from `options`; `animated` fades new buttons in (a side set
-/// as groups changes at once).
+/// as groups changes at once). Nothing when the side's buttons, colors, loaded images, React roots and traits are the
+/// same as at its last build and the item still holds what that build set: iOS 26 animates even equal new items.
 - (void)applySide:(ANNBarButtonsSide)side
           options:(ANNNavigationOptions *)options
          animated:(BOOL)animated;
@@ -49,12 +51,16 @@ typedef NS_ENUM(NSInteger, ANNBarButtonsSide) {
 /// The width the slot of a React button measured; 0 before it rendered.
 - (CGFloat)measuredWidthOf:(NSString *)componentId;
 
-/// A menu item `itemId` was picked: `ANN.NavigationButtonPressed` with its id, then the check of a single-selection
-/// menu written into the screen's own copy of the menu. `menuOf` gives the menu in `options` (a button's, the title's,
-/// the overflow menu); `setMenu` puts the copy into the own options.
+/// A menu item `itemId` was picked: `ANN.NavigationButtonPressed` with its id, then, in a single-selection list, the
+/// pick kept in the screen's user layer under `choiceKey`, one choice per menu. The resolution plays the picks again on
+/// a copy of the menu it has. `menuOf` gives the menu in `options` (a button's, the title's, the overflow menu),
+/// `setMenu` puts a changed copy there. A merge into the screen takes a pick away when the screen's resolution after it
+/// has no such item, or when it gives the menu with other checks in the pick's level than the app had there, as on
+/// Android. The two blocks capture no presenter: the node keeps them with the choice.
 - (void)menuItemPicked:(NSString *)itemId
+             choiceKey:(NSString *)choiceKey
                 menuOf:(ANNMenuOptions *_Nullable (^)(ANNNavigationOptions *options))menuOf
-               setMenu:(void (^)(ANNNavigationOptions *own, ANNMenuOptions *menu))setMenu;
+               setMenu:(void (^)(ANNNavigationOptions *options, ANNMenuOptions *menu))setMenu;
 
 /// A copy of `menu` that shares no item with it (a new `ANNMenuOptions` and a new `ANNMenuItemOptions` per item, at
 /// any depth).