[juliusmarminge]

On a phone or a narrow pane, focusing the thread composer always switched it to a tall card. That card took a large share of the screen even for a one-word reply.

The composer now stays one row, with the model picker in the row, until the draft would wrap. Then the draft stacks above the controls, showing two to four lines before it scrolls. It returns to the row once it fits again, including when a narrow pane widens. The picker shows the model name while the draft is empty and the provider icon once there is text. Removable attachments sit above the focused row.

To decide row or card, the native editors (iOS and Android) report the laid-out text size, and the composer compares it with the row's text area:

• A one-line draft reports its natural width. Past one line, only the height matters, so neither editor measures every line on each keystroke.
• The measurements live in refs, and only the row-or-card verdict is state, so a keystroke that doesn't change the verdict costs no extra render.

Android split view: while the composer has the soft keyboard, the navigation rail and the sidebar step aside, and the thread header drops to one line. Closing the keyboard brings them back. A hardware keyboard leaves the layout alone. Toggling the sidebar while typing dismisses the keyboard instead of flipping the user's sidebar preference.

Resizing the thread pane: the keyboard now resizes the thread pane on every open and close, so two problems that only the sidebar toggle used to hit became frequent:

• The feed reflowed twice. It learned its width from its own onLayout, and react-native-screens gave stack screens the width native last reported, a frame or more late. Rows measured against the old width, then the new one, so text overlapped and the list jumped away from the end. The feed now lays out at the pane's settled width in the commit that resizes the pane, and Screens t3.30 lays stack screens out at the stack's width in that commit. Form sheets keep the native width.

• The composer stayed behind the keyboard until the whole workspace had re-rendered, because the keyboard event that lets it follow the keyboard also re-laid out the workspace. The workspace now applies that layout in a deferred render after the composer's commit.

• The feed could lose the end when it narrowed. The reflow grows the visible rows in one batch, past LegendList's near-end threshold, so maintainScrollAtEnd stopped following and the last rows stayed under the composer (most often with a draft that moves to the card as the pane narrows). A feed that was following the end when its width changed now pins the end again once the new sizes are in.

• When the sidebar came back (closing the keyboard, or toggling it), the thread stayed laid out at its old width, clipped, until the slide ended, then reflowed. The pane now takes its new width in the commit that toggles a pane and holds still against the edge that doesn't move: a sidebar sliding in fills the strip beside it, and one sliding out uncovers the rest of the pane. Nothing reflows after the panes land. A hinge resize follows the same rule; an inspector keeps the left edge still.

On a loaded emulator, the reflow held the slide back by up to about 0.7s, and narrowing showed earlier rows until the end pin landed. On a lightly loaded emulator after merging main, the strip shows for about 70ms, the sidebar slides in over about 150ms, and the feed stays at the end. Pixel's Fold should confirm how it feels. The earlier clip-then-reflow order is one revert away (7699114). A same-frame end correction would need a LegendList change: Android runs scroll commands before the mount that grows the content, and LegendList holds imperative scrolls until its positions settle.

Sidebar button while typing: it now dismisses the keyboard and opens a sidebar the user had hidden in one tap. It used to need two.

One frame with stale row positions remains between the reflow and the repositioned rows. LegendList applies row positions outside React's commit, so removing that frame would take a LegendList change.

Split out of #19987 by @PixPMusic, and rebuilt: the original measured the draft in a hidden 10000px-wide <Text> on every keystroke, and kept a brand-word table for model names. The split-view typing behavior was ported into #19987 from #19424 by @t3dotgg.

Verification: mobile typecheck, lint, and native static checks (swiftlint, ktlint, detekt) pass. Two reviewers (Opus and Sol) reviewed it. Opus found that the focused row on iOS never left one line, and that the card never returned to the row. It confirmed both by compiling the measurement code against UIKit. Both are fixed in 8ab9c12, using the measurement the reviewer verified in that probe. No new tests: the row-or-card rule is one line, and the risk is in native measurement.

Checked on emulators (Pixel 10 Pro Fold, Android 17; iPhone 17 Pro simulator, iOS 26.5), against a backend seeded with real threads:

• iOS and Android: type until the draft wraps, and it moves to the card. Delete back, and it returns to the row. An explicit newline moves it to the card.
• iOS: at the largest app text size (22 pt), a one-line draft isn't clipped in the row.
• Android: a draft with a context chip doesn't move to the card early.
• Narrow split pane: folding the Fold stacks a long draft; unfolding and hiding the sidebar returns it to the row.
• Android split view: the soft keyboard hides the rail and sidebar and compacts the header, and a hardware keyboard doesn't. Toggling the sidebar while typing only dismisses the keyboard.
• Model picker: name while empty, icon once there's text. The exiting label used to keep drawing at its old position for about 100ms, over the chevron (iOS) or the send button (Android). The name now leaves at once and only fades in, and on iOS the control clips its content while its width eases. Checked on the Fold and the iPhone 17 Pro simulator.
• Fold split view, keyboard open and close (emulator; dev and production JS): rows measure once, the composer is above the keyboard as soon as the keyboard settles, and the sidebar and header follow.
• Merged main (October 20) and checked again on the Fold: closing the keyboard with a long draft keeps the feed at the end, Settings opens full width and returns, and the sidebar button opens a hidden sidebar in one tap while typing. Once, the feed was off the end after that tap; two retries of the same sequence didn't reproduce it.
• Rebased onto main after fix(android): navigation chrome takes less of the screen #20813 (October 19). The split-view sidebar and rail logic now sits on main's workspace layout, and the one-row editor's iOS height uses main's text-size-aware inset (fix(mobile): iOS composer text stays vertically aligned at every text size #17855) instead of a fixed 12pt. Checked again on the unfolded Fold (soft keyboard hides the rail and sidebar and compacts the header; Back restores them; short drafts keep the row with the provider icon; a wrapping draft moves to the card) and on iPhone 18 Pro Max (same row and card behaviour).

Follow-ups (not in this merge):

• Report the laid-out line count from both native editors and compare lines > 1 instead of heights, so a large Android system font scale doesn't put every draft in the card (CodeRabbit's finding; main behaved this way before).
• A draft with attachments can flash row, then card, then row on focus. The inline thumbnails narrow the unfocused editor and leave a stale verdict. The attachment strip also remounts with its fades on each row/card switch.
• Derive the layout's "composer editing" flag from focus and visibility, so a replaced editor that never blurs can't leave it set.
• Give setComposerEditing a stable path so the composer doesn't re-render on every workspace context change, such as sidebar search keystrokes.
• Device checks: sending in split view (the keyboard closes and the feed reflows during the send's anchoring scroll), the model sheet round trip, and Android full-screen modals with Screens t3.30.
• An unfocused draft longer than the row shows its two lines clipped (from main).

Keyboard open on the unfolded Fold, before and after the single reflow (dev JS, emulator):

Before and after the deferred workspace layout (production JS, emulator):

Closing the keyboard with a long draft, before and after the single early reflow (production JS, emulator):

Closing the keyboard with a long draft, before and after the end pin (production JS, emulator):

Model picker after the fix, Android (Fold) and iOS (iPhone 17 Pro simulator):

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[juliusmarminge]

Taking over this one for composer-chat-16. I am checking the remaining native wrap, resize and keyboard proof before changing the draft. I will leave it unpushed if those native behaviors cannot be verified in this environment.

[juliusmarminge]

Blocked for composer-chat-16; no implementation changes or push. The Device tool returns “Agent device access is turned off for this environment.” This is disabled access, not a missing native client that an ensure/build step can repair. The mobile verification workflow requires stopping when the device tools are unavailable. Headless JS/type checks cannot prove UIKit/Android text measurement, wrap thresholds, pane resizing or keyboard transitions.

The draft is still 8ab9c12, conflicts with main, and has no PR-added tests. Existing CI passes on that old head; I did not claim a verified rebuild. Pinned main 1451e7c still expands the focused composer to its 140px card, so this is not already fixed.

To finish on a device-enabled environment:

1. Merge current main and rebuild the smallest native wrap change, preserving contributor history. Build/install the matching dev client with node scripts/mobile-native-client.ts ensure <ios|android> <device-id>, start the isolated worktree backend and Metro, and pair the dev client to that backend.
2. On both iOS and Android, focus an empty composer, type one word, then type across the wrap threshold. Verify row → card, explicit newline → card, two-to-four-line scrolling, delete → row, and widen/rotate/fold/unfold → row when the draft fits. Include a long unbroken word, trailing whitespace, a context chip and large app text (22pt on iOS).
3. Check removable attachments, queued-message editing and draft/thread switching preserve content and choose the correct geometry. Capture matching base/head screenshots and a short wrap/resize recording.
4. On Android split view, verify the soft keyboard hides the rail/sidebar and compacts the header; dismissal restores them; a hardware keyboard leaves the layout alone; toggling the sidebar while typing dismisses the keyboard without changing its saved preference.
5. Fix and record the known first-keystroke model-label overlap with the chevron/send button. Check model selection, keyboard submission and focus restoration afterward.
6. Run scoped mobile typecheck/lint, native static checks and relevant existing tests on the integrated head; obtain fresh independent Opus/Sol reviews and team approval before marking this draft ready. Attach the actual native evidence to the PR.

No browser or JS-only proxy is accepted as proof of native wrapping. This batch leaves the draft open and unmerged.

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Thread transfer impact

✅ Thread transfer remains within every enforced ceiling.

Provider	Metric	Main baseline	This PR	Impact	PR ceiling
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Codex	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn WebSocket decoded	20.9 KiB	20.9 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Codex	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅
Claude	Total thread wire	5.0 KiB	5.0 KiB	+7 B (+0.1%)	6.8 KiB	✅
Claude	Thread snapshot wire	3.8 KiB	3.8 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	4.9 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket wire	1.2 KiB	1.2 KiB	+7 B (+0.6%)	2.0 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn WebSocket decoded	21.2 KiB	21.2 KiB	0 B (0.0%)	29.3 KiB	✅
Claude	Live turn messages	2	2	0 (0.0%)	8	✅

Baseline: 5d4c202 · PR result: 6d8fc5c · Source CI: success

Scenario and decoded snapshot size

10 historical turns, 5 command tools per turn, 878.9 KiB retained MCP result per historical turn, and a 1.05 MiB retained result in the measured turn.

• Codex decoded thread snapshot: 108.5 KiB
• Claude decoded thread snapshot: 108.8 KiB

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📝 Walkthrough

The mobile composer now reports native text dimensions and uses them to adapt between inline and card layouts. Workspace layout responds to composer keyboard state and pane width. Android headers support a compact title and subtitle row. The React Native Screens fork reference is updated to t3.30.

Changes: Composer and workspace layout

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Native editor content-size reporting apps/mobile/src/native/T3ComposerEditor.types.ts, apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/android/..., apps/mobile/modules/t3-composer-editor/ios/..., apps/mobile/src/native/T3ComposerEditor*	The editor exposes an optional content-size callback. Android and iOS report measured text dimensions, and the native wrappers forward the event.
Workspace keyboard and pane layout apps/mobile/src/features/layout/AdaptiveWorkspaceLayout.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/layout/workspace-content-width.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadFeed.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadHeader.tsx, apps/mobile/src/components/ui/*	The workspace tracks composer editing and keyboard activity, adjusts sidebar and pane behavior, and provides settled content width to the feed. The thread header passes compact state through to the Android header, which can render the title and subtitle on one row.
Responsive inline and card composer apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadComposer.tsx, apps/mobile/src/components/ComposerToolbar.tsx	The composer selects an inline or card layout based on draft geometry and uses measured content size to adjust editor height. Toolbar controls support an icon-only mode with platform-specific width transitions.

React Native Screens fork update

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Update screens fork reference apps/mobile/package.json, docs/operations/mobile-screens-fork.md	The dependency archive and operations documentation now refer to t3.30.

Priority: ⚪ Pending latest changes

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~45 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant ThreadComposer
  participant AdaptiveWorkspaceLayout
  participant ThreadHeader
  participant ThreadFeed
  ThreadComposer->>AdaptiveWorkspaceLayout: setComposerEditing on focus or blur
  AdaptiveWorkspaceLayout->>ThreadHeader: expose composerKeyboardActive
  ThreadHeader->>ThreadHeader: pass compact state to AppBar
  AdaptiveWorkspaceLayout->>ThreadFeed: provide settled content width

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At larger Android font sizes, a one-line draft can switch to the card unnecessarily or be clipped in the row. Correct the font-scale handling before merging.

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Verdict: Needs Human Approval

Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — This PR changes the default mobile composer interaction and coordinates native text measurement with Android workspace, header, pane, and feed layout behavior. It also updates a runtime native navigation dependency, making the overall change broader than a narrowly isolated fix.

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