Create global control shared by all stories

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
react-native, typescript
Domain
mobile

Research direction

Start by reviewing the global args and global types documentation linked in the issue, then inspect how preview.js is handled in Storybook React Native 6.5.6. Compare the React behavior with the React Native implementation and define what support for a shared, story-updatable ThemeProvider control would require. Done means the supported configuration is documented and covered by an appropriate example or test.

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Description

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We have a global decorator that wraps all the stories with a "ThemeProvider" wrapper, something like this:

export const decorators = [
  (Story) => (
    <ThemeProvider theme={"light"}>
        <Story />
    </ThemeProvider>
  ),
];

The problem is that I can't find a way to provide control or anything to update the theme from each story.

Describe the solution you'd like
I would want to be able to provide args, argTypes, or anything to the global decorator that allows me to update this theme prop for every story.

Describe alternatives you've considered

  1. I've looked into storybook documentation for React that allows us to define args at the global level in preview.js, but this does not seem to work with storybook version of react-native
    https://storybook.js.org/docs/6.5/react/writing-stories/args#global-args

  2. Also according to the React storybook documentation, we are able to specify "global types" in our toolbar, but seems like this addon is not supported in storybook react-native
    https://storybook.js.org/docs/6.5/react/essentials/toolbars-and-globals#globals

Are you able to assist bring the feature to reality?
no

Additional context
For context, I'm on storybook 6.5.6

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