[dylanjeffers]

What

On iOS 26 the bottom tab bar becomes a floating Liquid Glass pill, styled like the iOS 26 system tab bar.

• A highlight behind the active tab springs to the new tab when you switch. The Lottie icons and notification badge are unchanged.
• When a track is loaded, the play bar is its own glass pill above the tab pill. The collapsed now-playing drawer is now see-through, so content shows around both pills. Before, the drawer's white background filled the space behind them.
• The full player's background fades in as the drawer opens, so the open player looks the same as before.
• Hide-on-scroll still moves both pills off screen.

How

• Adds @callstack/liquid-glass 0.8.2 (UIGlassEffect; needs RN 0.80+ and Xcode 26). This adds a native module, so the full effect needs a new binary.
• core/Screen/LiquidGlass.ts checks TurboModuleRegistry.get('NativeLiquidGlassModule') before requiring the library. The library looks up its module with getEnforcing on import, which would crash OTA JS running on older binaries; with the check, those builds just keep the classic bar.
• useFloatingTabBar decides when to float: iOS 26+, and only on phones with a home indicator. The pill takes up exactly the old bar's space (BOTTOM_BAR_HEIGHT + bottom inset), so BottomChin, the chat screen and the drawer offsets are untouched.
• Android, iOS < 26 and home-button iPhones keep the classic bar.

Testing

• iOS 26.5 sim, Release build, light and dark mode: tab switching, play bar pill, opening and closing the full player, hide/show on scroll.
• Android API 36 emulator, release build: classic tab bar, play bar and full player unchanged.
• tsc and eslint clean. No jest tests cover these components.
• Not tested: home-button iPhones (they take the classic path) and a physical device.

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