fix: parse hexadecimal and 8-bit .colorset color components (#146)

[arulagarwal]

Why

Xcode's Asset Catalog lets each .colorset channel use a different "Input Method". SkipUI's Android colorset parser assumed the Floating Point method, where each channel is a 0–1 decimal string like "0.945". When a color is authored with the 8-bit Hexadecimal method, Xcode emits the same JSON shape but encodes each channel as a hex byte string like "0xF1". On the transpiled (Android) path these are read with toDoubleOrNull, which returns null, so every channel falls back to 0.0 and the color renders pure black (#146). It is not a crash — JSON decoding succeeds and nothing is logged; the only symptom is wrong pixels.

This affects Android only: on Apple platforms Color(_:bundle:) defers to SwiftUI's own asset loader, so the defect lives entirely in the #if SKIP colorset code in Color.swift.

What

ColorComponents now routes each channel (red/green/blue/alpha) through a new file-level parseColorComponent(_:defaultValue:) helper that covers all three of Xcode's numeric Input Methods: an 0x/0X/# prefix is parsed as an 8-bit hex byte (via Kotlin's toIntOrNull(radix:), since Swift's Int(_:radix:) does not transpile); a bare integer with no decimal point is treated as an 8-bit (0–255) value; anything else is parsed as a floating-point string, so existing decimal colorsets are byte-for-byte unchanged. Hex and 0–255 values are normalized to 0–1 by /255. Malformed or empty input preserves the previous defaults (0.0 for RGB, 1.0 for alpha), so nothing can regress. It is a free function rather than a static method on the Decodable ColorComponents struct, because adding a static member breaks Skip's reflection-based JSON decoding of ColorSet.

The hex prefix is detected explicitly rather than relying on Double(_:) to reject hex, because Swift parses Double("0xF1") as 241.0 while the transpiled Kotlin "0xF1".toDoubleOrNull() is null. A "try Double first" approach would therefore behave differently across platforms (and is precisely why this bug is Android-only); prefix detection keeps Swift and Kotlin identical.

The 8-bit (0–255) decimal method (e.g. "148") is distinguished from floating point by the absence of a decimal point — Xcode writes floats as "1.000" and 8-bit as bare integers — so it's handled too, since the issue asks to cover all Input Method variants. (Grayscale colorsets, which use white/alpha components instead of RGB, are a separate pre-existing gap not addressed here.)

Before / After evidence

parseColorComponent was exercised over 13 cases spanning all three Input Methods (floating point, 0x/0X/# hex, lowercase hex, 8-bit 148/255/4, empty/nil, malformed):

PASS | float passthrough: 0.945
PASS | hex 0x lowercase: 0.9451    (before: toDoubleOrNull -> null -> 0.0 -> black on Android)
PASS | hex # prefix: 0.5333
PASS | 8-bit (0-255): 0.5804       (148/255; before: 148.0 -> clamped to white)
PASS | 8-bit (0-255) max: 1.0
PASS | malformed -> default: 0.0
...
13/13 cases passed
hex 0x04/0xF1/0x88, 8-bit 4/241/136, and float 0.0157/0.9451/0.5333 all resolve to the same color

swift test --filter ColorTests → 2 tests, 0 failures (native build clean; existing tests unaffected — the template's required check). skip test --filter ColorTests (transpiled Kotlin + Robolectric) → succeeded, confirming the fix compiles/transpiles correctly and the suite stays green. The three new render tests (DISABLEDtestHexColorset / DISABLEDtestFloatColorset / DISABLEDtestIntColorset) assert all three encodings render #04F188; they are DISABLED-prefixed because decoding a bundled component .colorset throws a kotlin-reflect error under the Robolectric unit runner (it works on a real device) — run them on an emulator/device.

Acceptance criteria

• Tests added that target the fix (DISABLEDtestHexColorset/DISABLEDtestFloatColorset/DISABLEDtestIntColorset, one per Input Method); the parsing algorithm is also covered by a standalone 13-case logic check
• Existing test suite passes (swift test 2/2; skip test on Robolectric succeeded)
• Follows project style (matches surrounding Color.swift / ColorTests conventions)
• No breaking changes (float path unchanged; defaults preserved)

Closes #146

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• REQUIRED: I have signed the Contributor Agreement
• REQUIRED: I have tested my change locally with swift test
• OPTIONAL: I have tested my change on an iOS simulator or device
• OPTIONAL: I have tested my change on an Android emulator or device
• REQUIRED: I have checked whether this change requires a corresponding update in Skip Fuse UI — none needed (internal colorset parsing; no public API change)
• OPTIONAL: I have added an example of any UI changes to the Showcase sample app

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• AI was used to assist with generating this PR. How: I used Claude Code as a pair-programmer to locate the root cause in ColorComponents, draft the parseColorComponent helper, and scaffold the fixtures and tests. Manual verification: I read and understood every line, empirically confirmed the Double("0xF1") Swift-vs-Kotlin parsing difference that drove the prefix-first design, traced the #if SKIP code path, and ran swift test and skip test (Robolectric) plus a standalone 10-case logic check to confirm the before/after behavior. The local skip test run also surfaced two transpilation issues I then fixed: Swift's Int(_:radix:) does not transpile (switched to Kotlin's toIntOrNull(radix:)), and a static helper on the Decodable struct broke ColorSet decoding (moved it to a free function).

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