chore(mobile): update gesture handler and keyboard controller#33229

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Gesture handler and keyboard controller drive the composer, the thread feed and swipeable rows, so their bumps sit in their own layer on top of the Expo SDK 58 update. Drop this layer if it misbehaves; the layer below stands alone.

What changed

react-native-gesture-handler 3.3.0 → 3.5.0 (added to expo.install.exclude, since SDK 58 pins ~3.3.0).
react-native-keyboard-controller 1.22.8 → 1.23.0 (already excluded from Expo's check).
Both patches rebased with pnpm patch / patch-commit.

Relevant upstream changes: 3.5.0 restores the row when a ReanimatedSwipeable pan is cancelled (software-mansion/react-native-gesture-handler#4618) and reports zero Pan velocity when the pointer rested before release (#4642). Keyboard controller 1.23.0 rounds KeyboardChatScrollView's padding totals before taking their delta and skips the padding undo after a frozen transition.

Patch audit

Patch	Verdict	Evidence
`react-native-gesture-handler` 3.3.0 → 3.5.0	Keep, regenerated	3.5.0 has no `failOffsetY` or `onSwipeableRelease` on `ReanimatedSwipeable` and no vertical-trackpad rejection in `RNPanHandler.m`. The patch applies unchanged. Our release hook sits after 3.5.0's new `canceled` branch, so a cancelled pan restores the row and can't commit a full swipe.
`react-native-keyboard-controller` 1.22.8 → 1.23.0	Keep, reworked	Two conflicts. `useExtraContentPadding` keeps our `adjustedInsetCompensation` on both totals and takes upstream's rounding of them. The compiled `lib` copies of `useChatKeyboard/index.ios.js` needed the zero-duration `currentHeight` sync re-applied by hand; it runs after upstream's new frozen-transition reset. The Android IME-resync hunk stays because kirillzyusko/react-native-keyboard-controller#1698 is still open.

Not included: `react-native-pdf-jsi` 6.x

The app-side migration would be small (PdfView props: page → 0-based initialPage, fitPolicy="width", onPressLink → onLinkPress({ url }), drop trustAllCerts), and 6.1.1 already contains both halves of our 5.0.0 patch (System.loadLibrary("NitroPdfJsi") and the optimize ProGuard file). I left it out because 6.0 (2026-10-20) replaces the Android viewer engine (AndroidPdfViewer → the library's own tiled PDFium renderer), has had two fix releases in two weeks, and since 6.1.1 downloads PDFium from GitHub Releases during the first Android build. That is a renderer swap plus a new build-time network dependency, which deserves its own PR with PDF-focused testing rather than a slot in a release-prep bump.

Verification

vp run check:changed passes. Native dev clients built from source for this layer: iOS 569f633c, Android cec05886.
Gesture handler, on a Pixel 9 (API 36): a slow drag on a thread row opens Un-settle/Snooze, and Snooze opens its sheet. Both layers open row actions the same way.
Keyboard controller, on an iPhone 18 Pro (iOS 27.2): I ran the same scripted sequence on one fresh pool device, layer 1 first, then this layer. The steps were: focus the composer and type, drag the feed into the keyboard, swipe down, scroll up, scroll bottom, keyboard dismiss.
- Results were identical on both layers. The composer sits on the keyboard, and on first open the feed is pinned to the last message. scroll up moves the feed with the keyboard up. The feed never jumps to the top while the composer has focus (the settled-props regression from Expo 58).
- On both layers, the pool's synthetic drag and keyboard dismiss never closed the iOS keyboard, so interactive dismissal still needs a check by hand on a real touch.
- The app's own dismiss-keyboard button in the terminal toolbar does close it.
Terminal: opening a shell, typing echo native-bump-ok and pressing return works, and the accessory key row shows above the keyboard.
Sheets with the keyboard: the native Clerk sign-in sheet takes keyboard input and enables Continue. The new-thread composer sits above the keyboard.
Android soft keyboard: pool emulators run with a hardware keyboard, so the soft keyboard never appears there. The Android composer grows with its text and keeps the feed at the end.
A note for OTA safety: gesture handler 3.5's JS calls RNGestureHandlerModule.getModuleId, which 3.3's iOS module doesn't export. Loading this layer's JS into a 3.3 binary (which happened once when a pool install silently failed) shows a red box. The fingerprint change already keeps OTAs from this layer off older binaries.

Pre-release suites ran on this layer's head; the main baseline comparison is in the layer below.

vp run mobile:e2e: 9/10, with the only failure also failing on main.
vp run mobile:behavior: iPad 23/24, with only the known bad jank case failing. The iPhone hit the pairing timeout that also stops main's run.

Macroscope left two findings on the keyboard controller patch.

The inverted/edge one doesn't apply to the thread feed's KeyboardAwareLegendList; replied and resolved.
The stale reported inset after unfreezing is real. It predates this PR: the hunk is byte-identical in the 1.22.8 patch on main. It's left open for a maintainer decision, with the fix spelled out on the thread.

Not verified: interactive keyboard dismissal by a real drag (see above), and the iPad floating-keyboard and Duo fold paths of the keyboard patch.

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MmacroscopeappBotreviewed · 2 inline threads1d ago

patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.23.0.patchfileOutdated · a361936Resolved by Julius Marminge

patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.23.0.patchfileOutdated · a361936Open thread

MmacroscopeappBoton file1d ago

🟡 Medium patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.23.0.patch:759

After the keyboard is dismissed while frozen and then unfrozen, onContentInsetChange keeps reporting the old keyboard height even though the native inset is zero, leaving consumers with stale keyboard space and scroll targets. reportedPadding reads currentHeight, but unfreezing updates only padding; reconcile currentHeight alongside padding when unfreezing.

No longer relevant as of 6cfaaf73fc786e4a3f6033321538150d7a8e4e93

JJulius Marminge1d ago

Confirmed against the source: upstream's useFrozenPadding reconciles padding on unfreeze, but the patch's reportedPadding reads currentHeight, which nothing reconciles, so a keyboard that closes while the view is frozen leaves onContentInsetChange reporting the old height until the next keyboard event. This predates this PR: the hunk is byte-identical in the 1.22.8 patch on main, and this layer only rebases it. In the app the window is narrow, since ThreadDetailScreen always calls scrollMessageToEnd({ closeKeyboard: false }), so only a user dismissing the keyboard during that brief scroll-to-end freeze reaches it. I'm leaving this open for a maintainer call rather than changing keyboard behavior inside a version bump; the fix would be to pass currentHeight into useFrozenPadding and set it alongside padding on unfreeze.

MmacroscopeappBot1d ago

Understood, leaving it open for a maintainer call.

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — The dependency updates retain the existing gesture and keyboard patches. An acknowledged stale-keyboard-inset issue remains explicitly open for a maintainer to decide whether to fix or defer, because it can leave feed spacing and scroll targets incorrect after dismissal during a frozen transition.

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The mobile workspace updates react-native-gesture-handler and react-native-keyboard-controller, including their patches. The patches change gesture recognition and swipeable release handling, keyboard visibility and height updates, and chat scroll inset compensation.

Changes: Mobile native dependency updates

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Dependency versions and install configuration `apps/mobile/package.json`, `pnpm-workspace.yaml`	The package versions and workspace overrides for gesture-handler and keyboard-controller are updated. The workspace patch references match those versions, and the Expo install exclusion list adds gesture-handler.
Gesture recognition and swipeable release `patches/react-native-gesture-handler@3.5.0.patch`	The patch changes touch-start preflight and touch-free trackpad pan checks. `ReanimatedSwipeable` calls `onSwipeableRelease` before its return animation and skips that animation when the callback returns `true`. It also forwards `failOffsetY`.
Keyboard visibility and height updates `patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.23.0.patch`	The patch changes iOS keyboard frame handling and presentation-height updates. It sets the effective height for zero-duration events and updates height during movement and interactive dismissal unless frozen. It also adds `keyboardDidShow` handling.
Chat scroll inset compensation `patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.23.0.patch`	The patch adds bottom- and start-inset compensation to chat scroll options and offset calculations. Padding and non-inverted scroll bounds use these values in CommonJS, module-format, and TypeScript code.

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~25 minutes

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Possibly related issues

pingdotgg/t3code#14464: The issue concerns Android terminal movement when the keyboard opens. The PR updates keyboard-controller, but Android soft-keyboard behavior was not verified, so the summary does not show that this issue is resolved.
pingdotgg/t3code#31995: The issue concerns the keyboard covering a focused custom-answer input on iOS. The PR updates keyboard-controller, but the summary does not establish a change to focused-input visibility.

Merge Risk: External image Moderate · previous review 3c7e6

This update bumps the gesture-handler and keyboard-controller dependencies and their patches. A known swipe-dismissal edge case, where a pan is cancelled mid-animation, remains open. The author reports it is carried over unchanged from main and tracked separately. Merging is reasonable if the team accepts that known edge case. Interactive keyboard dismissal by touch, Android soft-keyboard behavior, and the iPad floating-keyboard and Duo fold paths were not verified.

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patches/react-native-gesture-handler@3.5.0.patch:140 External image Major · Stability & Availability · Heavy lift
Preserve dismissal ownership when a pan is canceled.
If dismissal starts during an active pan and cancellation arrives during the translation animation, the canceled-pan spring replaces that animation. The dismissal promise can remain pending, so the thread action does not run.
Handle cancellation during dismissal without starting the spring. Keep ordinary canceled pans from committing a full swipe.

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