[feature] Custom platform selectors to target OS versions (e.g. iOS 18 v.s. iOS 26)

[Tehnix]

TL;DR: It would be awesome to be able to define custom platform selectors e.g. ios18:p-2 or tablet:p-8 and such.

Apologies if this has already been discussed, I didn't manage to find any issues or PRs around it at least.

Uniwind currently supports some nice platform selectors (https://docs.uniwind.dev/api/platform-select) which are handy for platform differences.

It would be very nice to be able to define your own custom platform selectors somehow, based on information available in Platform from react-native or Device form something like expo-device.

This would allow more granular targeting of specific versions or device types.

Context

I'm right now trying to make our App work across iOS 18 and iOS 26 which feature significant differences because of the introduction of Liquid Glass which behaves different in many cases, and requires quite a few workarounds to arrive to something similar looking on iOS 18 where it's not supported.

Right now I'm sprinkling a bunch of specific version checks around in my classNames to handle set different sizes or padding based on the iOS version.

I have a bit of a similar thing going on as well to detect tablet sizing.

Some of the helpers I've defined so far:

import * as Device from 'expo-device';
import { Platform } from 'react-native';

/**
 * Minimum window width (dp) to treat layout as tablet-sized when device type is unknown.
 */
const TABLET_MIN_LAYOUT_WIDTH = 600;

/**
 * Whether the app should use tablet-style layout (e.g. side-anchored sheets on iPad).
 */
export function isTabletLayout(windowWidth: number): boolean {
  if (Platform.OS === 'ios' && Platform.isPad) {
    return true;
  }

  if (Device.deviceType === Device.DeviceType.TABLET) {
    return true;
  }

  return windowWidth >= TABLET_MIN_LAYOUT_WIDTH;
}

/**
 * Get the iOS version.
 */
export function getIOSVersion(): number {
  if (Platform.OS !== 'ios') {
    return 0;
  }

  return parseInt(Platform.Version as string, 10);
}

/**
 * Check if the iOS version is 26 or higher.
 */
export function isIOS26OrLater(): boolean {
  return getIOSVersion() >= 26;
}

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[Tehnix]

Should this be in discussions? I didn't see much activity in there so I assumed it was unused, but I'll move it into "Ideas" in there :)

Moved to #563

[Brentlok]

Should this be in discussions? I didn't see much activity in there so I assumed it was unused, but I'll move it into "Ideas" in there :)

Moved to #563

We're using issues for bugs/enchancements, and discussions for ideas / feature requests

Thanks for moving this into discussion