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  You have built a polished application, and it renders flawlessly on iOS and Google Pixel devices. Then, an Oppo, OnePlus, or Realme user running ColorOS opens your app. Suddenly, your carefully designed interface features inverted colors, black text on dark gray backgrounds, and visually corrupted images. This behavior is caused by a notorious system-level override in ColorOS that forcefully applies algorithmic darkening to third-party applications. For teams engaged in hybrid app development, this aggressive styling breaks web content rendered inside Android WebViews. This guide provides a definitive React Native WebView fix to disable forced dark mode on Android and eliminate ColorOS UI bugs across your application. The Root Cause of ColorOS Forced Dark Mode To implement a reliable fix, you must first understand how ColorOS manipulates the Android UI toolkit and the Chromium WebView engine. Standard Android relies on the  @media (prefers-color-scheme: dark)  CSS media...