Android tablet cold launches can inherit the activity’s portrait manifest lock and start in a narrow window. Remove that Android activity lock and apply the existing tablet/phone orientation policy before splash registration and activity content. Keep the 600 dp breakpoint, fold callback, configuration-change flags, and iOS policy unchanged.
Maintainer takeover of SamarpitSantoki’s #18634, preserving the original commits. The plugin also migrates an existing generated activity without duplicating the orientation call.
2138c8a5-7bcb-4d32-ac2d-30144c1ca76c, candidate 593eb0f0-bce1-4c26-94a0-243b110fe4b9. Both target SDK 36. Reading their actual binary manifests confirms baseline screenOrientation=portrait, candidate no orientation attribute, and identical configChanges.EAS Android 15 / API 35, actual 720 × 1600 px and 384 dp short side. A temporary external React Native probe measured the native activity/root and called the real deriveLayout; it was not the connected account UI and did not override orientation. The identical production/minified JS bundle was prepared for both binaries. The baseline recording visibly starts in landscape Settings, force-stops/reopens the baseline native app, and ends in a portrait 384 × 853.33 dp root with compact layout.
Before — main native binary, phone cold launch
Before: Android 15 baseline native-window probe after cold launch
Baseline phone cold-launch recording: landscape Settings to portrait activity
After — candidate device verification incomplete. The first cloud connection stayed on the dev launcher, so it was stopped and reset once. The second ran the baseline probe above, then failed with Remote daemon is unavailable while enabling Developer options to establish a real tablet configuration. The EAS workflow requires stopping after a second failure. Both sessions are confirmed stopped, Metro is stopped, and all temporary source/config overlays are restored.
No candidate phone/tablet pass or before/after improvement is claimed. The profile name alone was not counted as tablet coverage. Needed before landing: candidate phone cold launch from landscape; Android 14/15 tablet landscape cold launch and portrait→landscape video; auto-rotate-on and fold/unfold checks. The controller sets display rotation with auto-rotate disabled, so the baseline video does not prove sensor behavior. This is a Debug/dev-client probe, not Release splash verification.
The author’s earlier Xiaomi Pad 6 / Android 14 results are historical evidence and must not be read as validation of this maintainer revision. This native change requires a new Android binary, not an OTA update.
Native graph provenance: baseline exact main 325a7e2 plugin over the common build inputs; candidate 2fc09ed. EAS metadata records candidate Git HEAD for both archives because the baseline used an exact main-plugin overlay. The later main merge changes neither the orientation plugin nor native dependencies/configuration nor the probe’s production layout helper; the package-file change is only its test command.
Implemented with GPT-6.1 Sol through Codex in T3 Code; tests with GPT-6 Astra; independent Opus 5.5 and GPT-6 Sol reviews.
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Verdict: Not approved
Macroscope's review found this PR not approvable — This focused native Android fix changes the generated MainActivity orientation default and cold-launch behavior for tablets, even though the post-startup phone/tablet policy remains the same. Because it changes a production product default, the change warrants human review.
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The plugin checks cover the generated manifest and Kotlin, but the Android landscape launch is still untested. Please add before/after screenshots and a short cold-launch recording on an Android tablet, with the device and Android version, and confirm phones still launch in portrait. The verification guide requires evidence of the changed UI behavior. Please keep this in draft until that evidence is added.
No actionable comments were generated in the recent review. 🎉
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The Android plugin removes the main activity’s manifest orientation setting and updates how it inserts orientation handling into MainActivity. Tests check the generated manifest, orientation policy, and repeated prebuild output.
Changes: Android orientation
| Layer / File(s) | Summary |
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Manifest and runtime orientation apps/mobile/plugins/withAndroidTabletOrientation.cjs, apps/mobile/plugins/withAndroidTabletOrientation.test.ts | The plugin removes the main activity’s android:screenOrientation attribute. It adds orientation imports and methods when SCREEN_ORIENTATION_FULL_USER is absent, then places one applyTabletOrientation() call after the onCreate declaration. Tests check manifest configuration, the 600dp orientation policy, and stable output after repeated prebuilds. |
Priority: ➖ Normal
Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes
Change: Bug fix
Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge
913f6This change lets Android tablets launched in landscape open full screen while phones keep the portrait policy. Generated-file tests support the behavior. Device verification is still pending, but no concrete merge-blocking problem was found.
913f6The change is limited to Android display-orientation behavior, with no identified expansion of access or privileges. Risk is low, but device behavior and interrupted or rollback generation states remain unverified.
Retained concerns No architecture-level concerns identified.
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| Check name | Status | Explanation |
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| Title check | Passed | The title clearly identifies the mobile Android tablet cold-launch fix and matches the primary change. |
| Linked Issues check | Passed | Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. |
| Out of Scope Changes check | Passed | Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request. |
| Description check | Passed | The description covers the problem, implementation, scope, detailed verification results, limitations, and agent provenance. It does not use the template headings, and it does not include a direct lin… |
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The description covers the problem, implementation, scope, detailed verification results, limitations, and agent provenance. It does not use the template headings, and it does not include a direct link to an explicit maintainer approval comment, but the maintainer takeover and related PR are identified. The remaining device checks are clearly documented as incomplete.
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@juliusmarminge, re your verification note:
dumpsys activity reports areBoundsLetterboxed=false. Rotation was also checked on a Pixel Tablet emulator (Android 16).MainActivity output, including idempotency. Two of them fail against the plugin on main. I also ran expo prebuild for Android with this app's config against main and this branch. Only the manifest screenOrientation and the position of applyTabletOrientation() change, and a second prebuild leaves both files unchanged.Open for maintainer review: the phone launch path (the system splash may show in landscape for a moment on a phone held in landscape), the CI runs waiting for approval, and the Macroscope human-review verdict.
apps/mobile/plugins/withAndroidTabletOrientation.test.ts: 1
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configChangesflag independently.The current contiguous-substring check depends on flag order. A harmless reorder or inserted flag can fail the test even when all required flags remain. Preserve coverage for all five flags currently asserted:
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1 - expect(mainActivity.$["android:configChanges"]).toContain( 2 - "orientation|screenSize|screenLayout|uiMode|smallestScreenSize", 3 + const configChanges = (mainActivity.$["android:configChanges"] ?? "").split("|"); 4 + expect(configChanges).toEqual( 5 + expect.arrayContaining([ 6 + "orientation", 7 + "screenSize", 8 + "screenLayout", 9 + "uiMode", 10 + "smallestScreenSize", 11 + ]), 12 ); 🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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Taking over this one for mobile-02. I’ll merge current main, keep the plugin fix and regression proof minimal, and verify tablet and phone launch behavior on an EAS Android simulator. Credit to @SamarpitSantoki for the original fix and device investigation.
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[GPT-6.1 Sol][Codex] on behalf of shivam.
Issue watch picked up #24448, which reports the same Xiaomi HyperOS tablet landscape cold-launch letterboxing addressed here. I found Julius's takeover note and stopped before making changes or starting device tests.
Source inspection at main commit 5b35402623d7d1d88eaa472807272a6c2e78012a confirms that apps/mobile/app.config.ts still sets orientation: "portrait", and withAndroidTabletOrientation.cjs applies its tablet override after super.onCreate(null). This PR at 913f61f46bd1b7f48855bd320c25ce88af22243b removes the manifest orientation lock and moves the runtime policy before activity creation, addressing those startup constraints.
No tests, builds, or device reproduction were run in this thread. The remaining candidate phone/tablet cold-launch verification documented in the PR body is still unproven. No competing PR will be opened for #24448.
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Written by gpt-6.1-sol on behalf of Maria
Merged current main (1316d48b0c68) into the original branch and pushed dc6f194db92178418f6aa34ceeb2bc4577ab0b17, preserving @SamarpitSantoki's commits and Julius's focused revision. No replacement PR. The merge was clean; no additional production changes were needed. The diff remains the orientation plugin and its two regression checks: remove the Android manifest lock and apply the existing phone/tablet policy before splash registration and activity creation. Fold handling, the 600 dp threshold, configChanges, and iOS policy remain unchanged.
Verification this run:
vp run check:changed passed on the task's Blacksmith worker, including format, lint, knip, mobile/scripts typechecks, and both plugin tests.Still blocked: GitHub CI, Web Preview, Mobile Fingerprint Check, Mobile EAS Preview, and Deploy relay preview are action_required on this head, requiring workflow approval. Native tablet landscape cold launch, phone portrait launch, rotation lock, and fold transitions remain unverified. This VM has no attached Android device; the device tool returns Agent device access is turned off for this environment. Browser screenshots cannot establish native activity letterboxing, so no substitute evidence is claimed. Keeping the PR in draft per Julius's evidence request.