How to render a Material 3 bottom tab bar with NativeTabs in Expo Router

Expo Router’s submodule NativeTabs renders a real Material 3 navigation bar on Android and its native counterpart on iOS from one component tree. On Android, the active indicator pill and touch ripple come from the platform itself, so you do not need to animate them. The following approach is tested with Expo SDK 56 with a development build. You can create your own example app using bunx create-ex