🔥 [🐛] Reply item text color style not applied on MessageFlashList

[normanwilde]

Issue

Using MessageFlashList, custom styles from the theme in the Reply component are sometimes not applied.
It's likely happening to list virtualization and item recycling, because it happens only sometimes and on hot reload or rerender the item style is fixed.

Steps to reproduce

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Use MessageFlashList
2. Use a custom style for reply.markDownStyles.text: color property, which is not black (to distinguish it)
3. Render multiple messages in a Channel and reply to them
4. Observe that on some replies the reply's text color is not applied

Expected behavior

The custom text color of the Reply item set up in themes should be applied.

Project Related Information

Customization

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This happens without any customization except for the theme:

  reply: {
    messageContainer: {
      ...MESSAGE_BUBBLE_BORDER_RADIUS,
      paddingHorizontal: SPACING_HORIZONTAL["4"],
      borderBottomLeftRadius: 0,
      backgroundColor: Color.BLACK_90_SOLID, // Background of reply container's text content
    },
    markdownStyles: {
      text: {
        ...FontStyles["15RegularParagraph"],
        color: Color.WHITE_95_SOLID,
      },
    },
  },

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Offline support

• I have enabled offline support.
• [ n/a] The feature I'm having does not occur when offline support is disabled. (stripe out if not applicable)

Environment

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• Platform that you're experiencing the issue on:
  • iOS
  • Android
  • iOS but have not tested behavior on Android
  • Android but have not tested behavior on iOS
  • Both
• stream-chat-react-native version you're using that has this issue:
  • 8.12.0
• Device/Emulator info:
  • I am using a physical device
  • OS version: iOS 26.3
  • Device/Emulator: multiple iPhones

Additional context

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