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Support a lazy raw color fallback for PlatformColor#57556

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Summary:
An implementation for the RFC in react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#1008

PlatformColor previously had no way to specify what color to use when none of the supplied native color tokens resolve on the device. On a miss the behavior was inconsistent across platforms and architectures (transparent, nil, or a thrown error), giving apps no control over the rendered result.

This adds an optional trailing {fallback: '<raw color string>'} argument to PlatformColor(...). The fallback is carried lazily to the native layer as a raw, unprocessed string and is only parsed when every provided token fails to resolve. When at least one token resolves the fallback is ignored, so existing call sites are completely unaffected and omitting the argument preserves today's exact behavior.

Example:

PlatformColor('someSystemToken', {fallback: '#FF0000'})

The change spans the JS entry points (all platform PlatformColorValueTypes.* files plus the Flow and TypeScript type declarations), the iOS (Paper and Fabric) and Android (Paper and Fabric) native color resolvers, a new "Lazy Fallback Colors" section in the RNTester PlatformColor example, and the regenerated C++ API snapshots.

Changelog:
[General][Added] - Support a lazy raw color fallback for PlatformColor when native tokens fail to resolve

Differential Revision: D111837102

Summary:
An implementation for the RFC in react-native-community/discussions-and-proposals#1008

PlatformColor previously had no way to specify what color to use when none of the supplied native color tokens resolve on the device. On a miss the behavior was inconsistent across platforms and architectures (transparent, nil, or a thrown error), giving apps no control over the rendered result.

This adds an optional trailing `{fallback: '<raw color string>'}` argument to `PlatformColor(...)`. The fallback is carried lazily to the native layer as a raw, unprocessed string and is only parsed when every provided token fails to resolve. When at least one token resolves the fallback is ignored, so existing call sites are completely unaffected and omitting the argument preserves today's exact behavior.

Example:

  PlatformColor('someSystemToken', {fallback: '#FF0000'})

The change spans the JS entry points (all platform `PlatformColorValueTypes.*` files plus the Flow and TypeScript type declarations), the iOS (Paper and Fabric) and Android (Paper and Fabric) native color resolvers, a new "Lazy Fallback Colors" section in the RNTester PlatformColor example, and the regenerated C++ API snapshots.

Changelog:
[General][Added] - Support a lazy raw color fallback for PlatformColor when native tokens fail to resolve

Differential Revision: D111837102
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JavaScript API change detected

This PR commits an update to ReactNativeApi.d.ts, indicating a change to React Native's public JavaScript API.

  • Please include a clear changelog message.
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