@@ -4100,6 +4100,91 @@ public boolean glassRegion(Object graphics, int x, int y, int width, int height,
         return glassRegion(graphics, x, y, width, height, radius, cornerRadius, sat, scale, offset, refract, specular);
     }
 
+    /// True when `#colorMatrixRegion` works on this graphics context. Ports override.
+    ///
+    /// #### Parameters
+    ///
+    /// - `graphics`: the native graphics
+    ///
+    /// #### Returns
+    ///
+    /// false by default
+    public boolean isColorMatrixRegionSupported(Object graphics) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /// Recolours the painted region through a colour matrix; see
+    /// `com.codename1.ui.Graphics#colorMatrixRegion`. Ports override; the default does nothing.
+    ///
+    /// #### Parameters
+    ///
+    /// - `graphics`: the native graphics
+    ///
+    /// - `x`: region x
+    ///
+    /// - `y`: region y
+    ///
+    /// - `width`: region width
+    ///
+    /// - `height`: region height
+    ///
+    /// - `matrix`: 12-float colour matrix
+    ///
+    /// - `mask`: optional coverage mask
+    ///
+    /// - `cornerRadius`: corner radius, negative for a capsule
+    ///
+    /// - `amount`: strength 0..1
+    ///
+    /// #### Returns
+    ///
+    /// false when unsupported
+    public boolean colorMatrixRegion(Object graphics, int x, int y, int width, int height, float[] matrix,
+            Image mask, float cornerRadius, float amount) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /// True when `glassLensRegion` works on this graphics context.
+    ///
+    /// #### Parameters
+    ///
+    /// - `graphics`: the graphics context
+    ///
+    /// #### Returns
+    ///
+    /// false by default
+    public boolean isGlassLensRegionSupported(Object graphics) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
+    /// See Graphics.glassLensRegion; the default does nothing.
+    ///
+    /// #### Parameters
+    ///
+    /// - `graphics`: the graphics context
+    ///
+    /// - `x`: lens left edge (translated)
+    ///
+    /// - `y`: lens top edge (translated)
+    ///
+    /// - `width`: lens width
+    ///
+    /// - `height`: lens height
+    ///
+    /// - `cornerRadius`: corner radius, negative for a capsule
+    ///
+    /// - `optics`: the GlassLensBlend parameters
+    ///
+    /// - `amount`: overall strength 0..1
+    ///
+    /// #### Returns
+    ///
+    /// false when unsupported
+    public boolean glassLensRegion(Object graphics, int x, int y, int width, int height, float cornerRadius,
+            float[] optics, float amount) {
+        return false;
+    }
+
     /// In-place iOS 26 selection-drop LENS (magnify + chromatic aberration +
     /// dark-&gt;accent tint over the painted content). Default unsupported; the iOS
     /// port overrides it. Returns false so callers can fall back (e.g. to a tint).
 
@@ -90,6 +90,14 @@ public class Button extends Label implements ReleasableComponent, ActionSource<A
     private Image disabledIcon;
     private Command cmd;
     private boolean toggle;
+    /// Paint-time override used by Tabs for the Liquid Glass selection: the tab bar
+    /// paints every tab twice, once as unselected content and once as the accent
+    /// copy seen through the moving lens, regardless of which tab is selected.
+    /// GLASS_PAINT_NONE outside that paint; never set it anywhere else.
+    int glassPaintState = GLASS_PAINT_NONE;
+    static final int GLASS_PAINT_NONE = 0;
+    static final int GLASS_PAINT_DEFAULT = 1;
+    static final int GLASS_PAINT_SELECTED = 2;
     private int releaseRadius;
     private boolean autoRelease;
     /// Duration in millis of the iOS-style release dim-out (0 disables it). Read
@@ -664,7 +672,10 @@ public Image getIconFromState() {
         if (!isEnabled() && getDisabledIcon() != null) {
             return getDisabledIcon();
         }
-        if (isToggle() && isSelected()) {
+        if (glassPaintState == GLASS_PAINT_DEFAULT) {
+            return icon;
+        }
+        if (glassPaintState == GLASS_PAINT_SELECTED || (isToggle() && isSelected())) {
             icon = rolloverPressedIcon;
             if (icon == null) {
                 icon = getPressedIcon();
@@ -946,8 +957,30 @@ protected Border getBorder() {
         return getStyle().getBorder();
     }
 
+    /// {@inheritDoc}
+    ///
+    /// While Tabs paints its Liquid Glass passes the forced state wins over focus
+    /// and selection: a focused tab would otherwise answer its selected style and
+    /// keep the accent colour outside the lens.
+    @Override
+    public Style getStyle() {
+        if (glassPaintState != GLASS_PAINT_NONE && isEnabled()) {
+            boolean selected = glassPaintState == GLASS_PAINT_SELECTED;
+            Style forced = selected ? getPressedStyle() : getUnselectedStyle();
+            // Keep Component.getStyle()'s bookkeeping: Label reuses a cached string
+            // width only while the unselected style is the one in force, and a
+            // selected style may carry a different font.
+            isUnselectedStyle = !selected;
+            return forced;
+        }
+        return super.getStyle();
+    }
+
     @Override
     boolean isPressedStyle() {
+        if (glassPaintState != GLASS_PAINT_NONE) {
+            return glassPaintState == GLASS_PAINT_SELECTED;
+        }
         // if a toggle button has focus we should draw the selected state not the pressed state
         // however if shouldRenderSelection is false the selected state won't be painted so
         // we should draw the pressed state
 
@@ -3078,29 +3078,39 @@ private void paintInternalImpl(Graphics g, boolean paintIntersects) {
         }
     }
 
-    void internalPaintImpl(Graphics g, boolean paintIntersects) {
-        g.clipRect(getX(), getY(), getWidth(), getHeight());
-        // CSS backdrop-filter:blur() -- the "liquid glass" effect. Blur whatever has
-        // already been painted behind this component (the clip confines it to our
-        // bounds) BEFORE our own translucent background and content paint on top. This
-        // runs regardless of opacity, since a glass surface is by definition
-        // translucent (opaque would be false and skip paintComponentBackground). The
-        // port blurs the destination region in place; an unsupported port returns
-        // false and the component simply paints without the blur.
-        // COST/CACHING POLICY (per paint path):
-        //  * A glass surface only pays when it repaints; static chrome over static
-        //    content costs nothing between repaints.
-        //  * iOS live screen, selection lens: a pure GPU fragment shader on the
-        //    frame's own command buffer -- no sync, no readback, no cache needed.
-        //  * iOS live screen, glass material: the backdrop readback is required
-        //    (the material is a function of the pixels behind the glass), but the
-        //    composed patch is CACHED per rect+params+backdrop-hash in the port
-        //    (METALView glass patch cache), so a repaint over an unchanged
-        //    backdrop skips the colour transform + blur + optics; scrolling
-        //    content under the glass recomposes that frame from the real bytes.
-        //  * Offscreen mutable images (capture tooling) and the desktop simulator
-        //    blur per paint -- capture renders once, and the simulator is not a
-        //    shipping surface.
+    /// Paints the backdrop material (the CSS `backdrop-filter` glass or blur) and the
+    /// style background. Called by the paint pipeline right after the component clip
+    /// is set; a component whose visible surface is not its bounds (the Tabs bar,
+    /// whose glass pill scales inside reserved slack) overrides this and calls
+    /// {@link #paintBackgroundLayerAt}.
+    void paintBackgroundLayer(Graphics g) {
+        paintBackgroundLayerImpl(g);
+    }
+
+    /// Paints {@link #paintBackgroundLayer} into the given rect (parent coordinates,
+    /// like getX()/getY()) instead of the bounds. The bounds are swapped on the raw
+    /// rectangle so nothing observes the change: setX()/setWidth() would fire
+    /// accessibility bounds events on every animation frame.
+    final void paintBackgroundLayerAt(Graphics g, int x, int y, int w, int h) {
+        int ox = bounds.getX();
+        int oy = bounds.getY();
+        int ow = bounds.getSize().getWidth();
+        int oh = bounds.getSize().getHeight();
+        bounds.setX(x);
+        bounds.setY(y);
+        bounds.getSize().setWidth(w);
+        bounds.getSize().setHeight(h);
+        try {
+            paintBackgroundLayerImpl(g);
+        } finally {
+            bounds.setX(ox);
+            bounds.setY(oy);
+            bounds.getSize().setWidth(ow);
+            bounds.getSize().setHeight(oh);
+        }
+    }
+
+    private void paintBackgroundLayerImpl(Graphics g) {
         float backdropBlur = getStyle().getBackdropFilterBlurRadius();
         if (backdropBlur > 0) {
             // The glass surface's material INTENT comes from a typed, named
@@ -3143,6 +3153,32 @@ void internalPaintImpl(Graphics g, boolean paintIntersects) {
             }
         }
         paintComponentBackground(g);
+    }
+
+    void internalPaintImpl(Graphics g, boolean paintIntersects) {
+        g.clipRect(getX(), getY(), getWidth(), getHeight());
+        // CSS backdrop-filter:blur() -- the "liquid glass" effect. Blur whatever has
+        // already been painted behind this component (the clip confines it to our
+        // bounds) BEFORE our own translucent background and content paint on top. This
+        // runs regardless of opacity, since a glass surface is by definition
+        // translucent (opaque would be false and skip paintComponentBackground). The
+        // port blurs the destination region in place; an unsupported port returns
+        // false and the component simply paints without the blur.
+        // COST/CACHING POLICY (per paint path):
+        //  * A glass surface only pays when it repaints; static chrome over static
+        //    content costs nothing between repaints.
+        //  * iOS live screen, selection lens: a pure GPU fragment shader on the
+        //    frame's own command buffer -- no sync, no readback, no cache needed.
+        //  * iOS live screen, glass material: the backdrop readback is required
+        //    (the material is a function of the pixels behind the glass), but the
+        //    composed patch is CACHED per rect+params+backdrop-hash in the port
+        //    (METALView glass patch cache), so a repaint over an unchanged
+        //    backdrop skips the colour transform + blur + optics; scrolling
+        //    content under the glass recomposes that frame from the real bytes.
+        //  * Offscreen mutable images (capture tooling) and the desktop simulator
+        //    blur per paint -- capture renders once, and the simulator is not a
+        //    shipping surface.
+        paintBackgroundLayer(g);
 
         if (isScrollable()) {
             if (refreshTask != null && !InfiniteProgress.isDefaultMaterialDesignMode() &&
 
@@ -2532,6 +2532,15 @@ void markComponentsToBePaintedInElevatedPane(boolean shouldPaintInElevatedPane)
         }
     }
 
+    /// Runs the layout-on-paint step of {@link #paint(Graphics)} for a subclass that
+    /// paints its children itself (the Tabs bar paints each tab twice for the
+    /// Liquid Glass selection) and so cannot call super.paint().
+    final void layoutForPaint() {
+        if (allowEnableLayoutOnPaint && enableLayoutOnPaint) {
+            layoutContainer();
+        }
+    }
+
     /// {@inheritDoc}
     @Override
     public void paint(Graphics g) {
 
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2026, Codename One and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
+ * DO NOT ALTER OR REMOVE COPYRIGHT NOTICES OR THIS FILE HEADER.
+ * This code is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+ * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 only, as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation. Codename One designates this
+ * particular file as subject to the "Classpath" exception as provided
+ * by Codename One in the LICENSE file that accompanied this code.
+ *
+ * This code is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
+ * ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
+ * FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
+ * version 2 for more details (a copy is included in the LICENSE file that
+ * accompanied this code).
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License version
+ * 2 along with this work; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
+ * Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
+ *
+ * Please contact Codename One through http://www.codenameone.com/ if you
+ * need additional information or have any questions.
+ */
+package com.codename1.ui;
+
+import com.codename1.util.MathUtil;
+
+/// The free response of a damped harmonic oscillator -- the curve a
+/// CASpringAnimation follows -- in closed form.
+///
+/// `x'' + 2 * zeta * omega * x' + omega^2 * x = 0`, starting at displacement `x0`
+/// with velocity `v0`; the spring rests at 0. `omega` is the natural angular
+/// frequency (rad/s, `sqrt(stiffness / mass)`) and `zeta` the damping ratio
+/// (`damping / (2 * sqrt(stiffness * mass))`): under 1 it oscillates, 1 is
+/// critical, over 1 it creeps back without crossing.
+///
+/// A spring animation from `a` to `b` is `b + displacement(omega, zeta, a - b, v0, t)`.
+final class DampedSpring {
+    private DampedSpring() {
+    }
+
+    /// Displacement from rest at time `t` (seconds).
+    static double displacement(double omega, double zeta, double x0, double v0, double t) {
+        if (t <= 0) {
+            return x0;
+        }
+        double decay = MathUtil.exp(-zeta * omega * t);
+        if (zeta < 1) {
+            double wd = omega * Math.sqrt(1 - zeta * zeta);
+            double b = (v0 + zeta * omega * x0) / wd;
+            return decay * (x0 * Math.cos(wd * t) + b * Math.sin(wd * t));
+        }
+        if (zeta == 1) {
+            return decay * (x0 + (v0 + omega * x0) * t);
+        }
+        double s = omega * Math.sqrt(zeta * zeta - 1);
+        double r1 = -zeta * omega + s;
+        double r2 = -zeta * omega - s;
+        double c2 = (v0 - r1 * x0) / (r2 - r1);
+        double c1 = x0 - c2;
+        return c1 * MathUtil.exp(r1 * t) + c2 * MathUtil.exp(r2 * t);
+    }
+
+    /// Velocity at time `t` (units per second).
+    static double velocity(double omega, double zeta, double x0, double v0, double t) {
+        if (t <= 0) {
+            return v0;
+        }
+        double decay = MathUtil.exp(-zeta * omega * t);
+        if (zeta < 1) {
+            double wd = omega * Math.sqrt(1 - zeta * zeta);
+            double b = (v0 + zeta * omega * x0) / wd;
+            double c = Math.cos(wd * t);
+            double s = Math.sin(wd * t);
+            return decay * ((b * wd - zeta * omega * x0) * c - (x0 * wd + zeta * omega * b) * s);
+        }
+        if (zeta == 1) {
+            double k = v0 + omega * x0;
+            return decay * (k - omega * (x0 + k * t));
+        }
+        double s = omega * Math.sqrt(zeta * zeta - 1);
+        double r1 = -zeta * omega + s;
+        double r2 = -zeta * omega - s;
+        double c2 = (v0 - r1 * x0) / (r2 - r1);
+        double c1 = x0 - c2;
+        return c1 * r1 * MathUtil.exp(r1 * t) + c2 * r2 * MathUtil.exp(r2 * t);
+    }
+}