fix(expo-template): render tab bar icons on Android - #576
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PR Description
Bug fix for
@bottom-tabs/expo-template. A scaffolded app had no tab bar icons on Android.app/(tabs)/_layout.tsxpassed only SF Symbols, which are Apple-only. On Android the librarywarns once per tab and renders the item with a label and an empty M3 active-indicator pill
Platformbranch - SF Symbols on iOS, images elsewhere. Ships two 96x96 PNGs.colors.primary(the default blue).Now uses the template's own
Colors.tabIconSelected/tabIconDefault.usage-with-expo-router.mdxmirrored the iOS-only pattern, and importedTabsfrom@/components/bottom-tabs- a path the guide never tells you to create, so the snippet wasuncopyable. Fixed both.
How to test?
Pack the template from this branch and scaffold from the tarball:
adb logcat | grep "SF Symbols"is empty (two lines before this PR).#0a7ea4in light / white in dark; inactive#687076/#9BA1A6.Screenshots