fix(mobile): Android composer and back follow the real keyboard after resume#21595

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Problem

On Android, after you leave the app with the keyboard open and come back, the chat composer stays hidden behind the keyboard. Tapping it again does not help. I hit this in daily use, and it reproduces on an emulator.

Cause: on resume, Android first reports the keyboard inset as 0 and then as its real height. react-native-keyboard-controller's native desync repair (KeyboardAnimationCallback.onApplyWindowInsets โ†’ syncKeyboardPosition) catches both, but it only emits keyboardDidHide / keyboardDidShow. On the JS side the library only marks the keyboard open on keyboardWillShow (module.ts), and useKeyboardState only listens to keyboardWillShow and keyboardDidHide. So the "hidden" repair reaches JS and the "shown" repair is dropped. useKeyboardState stays on hidden while the keyboard is on screen, and ThreadDetailScreen's KeyboardStickyView enabled={isKeyboardVisible && โ€ฆ} keeps the composer down.

Debug log from the emulator (unfixed main), with a temporary log of the keyboard state on ThreadDetailScreen:

114:54:32 KBDEBUG ctrlVisible=true ctrlHeight=336 sticky=true # composer focused
2 (Home, then back to the app)
314:54:38.123 KeyboardAnimationCallback: detected desynchronized state - force updating it: 0.0
414:54:38.213 KBDEBUG ctrlVisible=false ctrlHeight=0 sticky=false
514:54:38.852 KeyboardAnimationCallback: detected desynchronized state - force updating it: 336.0
6 (no JS update follows; keyboard is on screen, composer stays under it)

The same blind spot affected Android back. The back handlers checked React Native's cached Keyboard.isVisible(), which can stay stale after a resume, and neither Keyboard nor TextInputState can see the chat composer, which is a custom native EditText.

Change

  • Extend the existing react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.7 patch: treat keyboardDidShow like keyboardWillShow in module.ts, and add it to useKeyboardState's events (in src, lib/module and lib/commonjs). The native repair to "shown" now reaches JS. This is also a fix worth sending upstream.
  • New dismissOpenKeyboard() helper. It uses KeyboardController.isVisible() and KeyboardController.dismiss(), which track the IME natively and see the composer. The thread back handler, thread search and pull request search use it: if the keyboard is really open, back closes it; otherwise back navigates or closes search.
  • No change to ThreadDetailScreen. Its existing resume quarantine works once the library reports the real state.

Scope and approval

A small, focused fix for a reproducible bug, with the root cause traced through the native and JS sides of the keyboard library. Android-only behavior. No server, contract or iOS change. The library patch adds one listener and one event name.

Verification

Android emulator (Pixel 10 Pro image, Gboard), dev client against an isolated dev server. Repro: open a thread, tap the composer, press Home, return to the app, tap the composer.

Before (main)After
beforeafter

Stills. Before: after resume, the composer is under the keyboard, even after tapping it again (frames 3 and 4). before stills

After: the composer stays above the keyboard after resume. after stills

  • Repeated the repro 4 times after the fix, and every run ended with ctrlVisible=true ctrlHeight=336 sticky=true.
  • Back after the fix: with the keyboard open, back closes it and stays in the thread, and the next back returns to the list. The same holds right after a resume. back
  • vp run typecheck in apps/mobile passes. Lint shows no findings on changed code.
  • Not verified: a physical phone or iOS. iOS is unaffected, since its keyboard events are not repaired this way, and ThreadDetailScreen only gates the sticky view on Android. No tests added; the change is an event subscription in a patched dependency.

The original "back is stuck" freeze from daily use (blank feed, dead back) is not fully reproduced and may have another cause. This PR fixes the keyboard-state part that is proven.

Models: Claude Opus 5.5 (diagnosis, implementation, verification). Research by GPT-6-Luna, GPT-6.1-Sol, Cursor Composer 2.5 and Claude Haiku 5.5. Harness: Claude Code in T3 Code.

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Verdict: Approved at f6ac662

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable โ€” This is a small, self-contained Android keyboard-state bug fix affecting back handling and composer layout quarantine. Real keyboard dismissal remains intact, while stale cached state can no longer block navigation or leave the composer offset after resume.

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๐Ÿ“ Walkthrough

Mobile Android back handlers use a shared helper to dismiss an open keyboard before closing search or returning to the workspace list. The keyboard-controller patch updates keyboard state events and chat scroll inset handling.

Changes: Android keyboard handling

Layer / File(s)Summary
Keyboard state and scroll inset updates
patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.7.patch
The patch adds keyboardDidShow state handling and inset compensation options for chat scroll views. It updates the corresponding source, module formats, and declarations.
Shared dismissal and Android back handlers
apps/mobile/src/features/keyboard/dismissOpenKeyboard.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/home/ThreadListToolbar.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/pull-requests/PullRequestToolbar.android.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/workspace/useAndroidWorkspaceNavigation.ts
The helper returns false when the keyboard is hidden or dismissal is pending. Otherwise, it starts dismissal and returns true. The back handlers use its result to decide whether to close search or return to the workspace list.

Priority: โž– Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: ๐Ÿ”ต Low ยท up to 524fa

A rapid second Back press may leave the current view before the keyboard finishes closing. This bounded behavior does not block merging.

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The change affects 2 systems.

Changed systems: apps/mobile, patches

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Before / after behavior

  • observed โ€” Modified behavior in apps/mobile/src/features/home/ThreadListToolbar.tsx: Adds the dismissOpenKeyboard import used by the hardware Back handler.
  • observed โ€” Modified behavior in apps/mobile/src/features/home/ThreadListToolbar.tsx: The Back handler now closes search only when dismissOpenKeyboard() returns false; previously it directly dismissed a visible keyboard, otherwise closing search.
  • observed โ€” Modified behavior in apps/mobile/src/features/pull-requests/PullRequestToolbar.android.tsx: Added the dismissOpenKeyboard import.
  • observed โ€” Modified behavior in apps/mobile/src/features/pull-requests/PullRequestToolbar.android.tsx: Replaced the Keyboard.isVisible() check and conditional dismissal with dismissOpenKeyboard(); closeSearch now runs when the helper returns false.
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5+ // RN's Keyboard and TextInputState miss the chat composer, a custom native EditText. The
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Add a recovery path for stale keyboard visibility.

KeyboardController.isVisible() uses a cached isClosed flag. KeyboardController.dismiss() waits for keyboardDidHide when that flag is open, but does not clear it itself. Android emits the repair event only when onApplyWindowInsets detects a height change and the callback is not moving or suspended.

If that repair is skipped after a dropped hide event, dismissOpenKeyboard() returns true on every back press. The affected handlers then skip navigation or search closure. Add a fallback for this stale state. Do not restore the old React Native focus check because it does not detect the custom composer.

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8Add a stale-visibility recovery path in dismissOpenKeyboard: when
9KeyboardController reports the keyboard visible but dismissal does not clear the
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Filed #22484 to track the remaining keyboardDidShow cache/hook defect and linked this PR as the existing fix. I independently observed the same native recovery sequence while investigating Android split-screen in Harbordex, then reproduced the JS state and dismissal failures against upstream 7e289ae1.

Regression coverage is available as a test-only commit, including the mobile React-test allowlist entry. It can be cherry-picked independently of the verification patch commit, which adds the same event subscriptions proposed here.

The tests exercise the real package source cache and mounted hook with only native bindings mocked. From apps/mobile:

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1vp test run --project react src/features/keyboard/keyboardControllerState.test.tsx

All three fail on the baseline and pass with the listeners added:

  • didShow without willShow updates both cache and mounted hook to visible with the reported height.
  • dismiss() remains pending until didHide, instead of resolving immediately against a stale hidden cache.
  • Normal willShow is still immediate, and didShow supplies the completed height before a later hide resets the state.

Targeted formatting/lint, mobile typecheck, and native lint pass. The existing 18 dependency-patch sections remain byte-for-byte unchanged.

The older fork's split-screen composer failure was verified on an Android 17 tablet emulator. At the time of the initial comment, no current-upstream native UI run had been completed: #20803 and #19980 changed the composer gates since that fork's base. The new tests establish the remaining state/dismissal contract failure. This was initially shared as supplementary evidence and coverage for your existing fix.

Update: a separate, narrowly scoped PR was subsequently requested and opened as #22514, linked to #22484. It contains the state repair and regression tests, explicitly acknowledges the overlap here, and excludes Android Back handling. Native Android split-screen verification against the upstream base now also reproduces the stale cache/hook before the patch and correct state afterward; the composer remains visible in both upstream variants. Details, before/after screenshots, and short native recordings are in #22514 and #22484.

Models and harnesses for this contribution: GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, through the Codex harness in Harbordex.