cometchat-react-native-customization

Ground truth: @cometchat/chat-uikit-react-native@5 + catalog rn-v5.json. Docs: /ui-kit/react-native/theme · colors · component-styling · message-bubble-styling. Fetch token names and style keys from docs — never invent them.

Companion skills (read first)

• cometchat-react-native-core — install, provider chain, init→login→render. Assumed, not repeated here.

Use this skill when

• "change the chat colors" · "brand the chat UI" · "dark mode" · "restyle the bubbles"
• "custom message type" · "render my own bubble" · "add an option to the message menu"

Prerequisites & install

None beyond core. Theming needs CometChatThemeProvider already in the chain (see core).

Customization mechanism — three layers, cheapest first

There is no CSS. No stylesheets, no className, no --cometchat-* variables. If you are holding a React snippet with CSS custom properties, it does not apply here.