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Phones: drop the header name bar, stack question options, and answer questions in words - #2359

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Three phone chat fixes Omkar hit on his iPhone. Phones only: no server, desktop or companion change.

1. No more name + thread bar under the chat header. The pill under the header (bot name + thread title + chevron) opened the same thread list as the header's Threads button, and with a long thread title it stretched across the screen.

  • iOS: headerFace keeps only the face. header-threads carries the thread title as its accessibility value. A room's face is labelled with the room name and member count.
  • Android had no header Threads button (threads were only reachable through the pill or +). It gets a Threads chip next to the computer button: the word shows when it fits, otherwise an icon. Call moved next to Back, as on iOS, so nothing runs under the face on a 360dp phone. HEADER_CLEARANCE 128 → 80dp.

2. A question's options stack one under another. The generic option card put every option in one row and cut long ones off ("Yes, from your Gmail, I'll give subject and b…"). Questions and proposals now stack full-width buttons that wrap (OptionCard.stacksOptions in both cores). Allow/Deny approval cards keep their side-by-side row.

3. You can answer a bot's question in words. Claude's ask_user reaches the phones as a flat question card. With no choices it had nothing to tap and no text box. Typing the answer in the composer sent a "mid-turn" steer the bot can't read while it waits on the question, so it stalled until the 15-minute timeout.

  • The card: flat question cards get a text field. It is open with "Type your answer" when there are no options, and "Type your own answer" under the options otherwise. A structured question with no options also opens straight to its field.
  • The composer: while the chat has exactly one open question (flat, or structured with one question) and no attachment is staged, the placeholder reads "Answer …". Send answers that card through the existing /respond route instead of sending a chat message. Any other case sends as today.
  • If the request is gone: the line is sent as a normal message so the words aren't lost. Other errors put the text back in the composer with the reason.
  • Rooms: follow the card; the computer still refuses anyone not allowed to answer.

Test plan

  • iOS swift test: 1019 tests, 0 failures (new OptionCardLayoutTests, ComposerQuestionTests); view-shim check; ios-strings.test.mjs (new strings in pt-BR, zh-Hans, zh-Hant)
  • iOS UI tests: ThreadNavigation, SwipeBack, RosterDensity, Responsiveness (moved to header-threads), ApprovalCard, new QuestionCardUITests
  • Android: core 844 and app 1161 tests (new OptionCardLayoutTest, ComposerQuestionTest, CardOptionsLayoutTest, header overlap tests at 360/412dp and 1.5x font); assembleDebug
  • Release build installed on an iPhone 16 Pro (iOS 27.2) together with Phones: show the bot's Connect securely card and finish the sign-in from the phone #2357
  • Android checked on a device

Platforms

Platform Applies? Status
macOS no n/a: phone apps only; the desktop question card and composer are unchanged
Windows no n/a: phone apps only
iOS yes in this PR
Android yes in this PR (unit + Robolectric tests; not checked on a device)
Companion no n/a: uses the existing allowlisted /respond routes

Merges cleanly with #2357 (checked by merging both onto main for the phone build).

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  • New Features
    • Answer eligible open questions directly from the chat composer or within question cards. If a question is no longer available, your message is sent normally; failed answers keep your text so you can retry.
    • Questions with no choices now provide a text-answer field. Question options stack for easier reading, while approval choices remain side by side.
    • The chat header uses a Threads control and updated avatar layout, with accessibility labels for the current thread and room details.
    • Added localized prompts for answering questions.

aivsomkar and others added 6 commits October 6, 2026 12:38
The bar under the face repeated the bot's name and the thread title and
opened the same thread list the Threads button already does. It is gone;
the face sits alone between the buttons. Threads now carries the current
thread title as its accessibility value, and a room's face says the room's
name and member count, since the pill was the only place that showed them.

UI tests that tapped the pill or read its label now use the Threads button
and its value.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A question card's options are sentences, and sharing a row at one fixed
height cut them off ("Yes, from your Gmail — I'll give subject and b…").
Questions and proposals now stack their answers full width, wrapping onto
as many lines as they need, in rounded rectangles. Approval and outbound
cards keep Allow and Deny side by side, exactly as before.

The rule is OptionCard.stacksOptions in CompanionCore. The approval preview
gains a bot with a long-option question, and a UI test measures the stack.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The pill under the face repeated the bot's name and the thread title and
was the only way to the thread list. It is gone, and the header gets the
Threads chip iOS has, beside the computer, named for the thread you are
on. Call moves beside Back, as on iOS, so the right side has room. The
chip keeps its word only when it measures as fitting between the computer
and the face; on a narrow phone or at a large font size it is a glyph, so
it never reaches under the face. The transcript's top clearance shrinks
from 128 dp to the 80 dp of the strip and its fade. A room's face now says
the room's name and member count.

Thread navigation tests open threads from the chip and read its
description; new ones check that nothing in the header overlaps the face
at 360 dp, at 412 dp, and at 412 dp with a 1.5x font.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A question card's options sat in a row of wrap-content buttons, and a
sentence-long answer pushed the next off the card. Questions and proposals
now stack full-width buttons with centred, wrapping labels; approval and
outbound cards keep Allow and Deny in a row. The rule is
OptionCard.stacksOptions in core, mirroring iOS, with a Robolectric test
measuring both layouts on a 393 dp phone.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
A bot's ask_user question with no choices drew a card with nothing to tap
and no box to type in, and a line typed in the composer was steered into a
turn the bot could not read while it waited, so it stalled.

- A flat question card now has an answer field under its options, open on
  its own ("Type your answer") when there are none. It sends through the
  same answer route as the buttons. Approvals, held sends and proposals
  are unchanged.
- A structured question with no options opens straight to its field
  instead of a lone "Other" row.
- While the chat waits on exactly one question that asks one thing, and
  nothing is attached, the composer reads "Answer <bot>…" and Send answers
  that question instead of steering. A structured card gets the same
  "Q: … A: …" text its own card sends. If the question already closed, the
  line goes out as an ordinary message; if the answer fails, the words stay
  in the composer with the reason under them.
- The rule is ComposerQuestion in CompanionCore, with tests.
- New strings in pt-BR, zh-Hans and zh-Hant; a -question-preview fixture
  and UI tests with screenshots.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The same fix as iOS. A bot's ask_user question with no choices drew a card
with nothing to tap, and a line typed in the composer was steered into a
turn the bot could not read while it waited.

- A flat question card now has an answer field under its options, open on
  its own ("Type your answer") when there are none. Approvals, held sends
  and proposals are unchanged.
- A structured question with no options opens straight to its field
  instead of a lone "Other" row.
- While the chat waits on exactly one question that asks one thing, and
  nothing is attached, the composer reads "Answer <bot>…" and Send answers
  that question instead of steering. If the question already closed, the
  line goes out as an ordinary message; if the answer fails, the words go
  back into the composer with the reason under them.
- The rule is ComposerQuestion in core; Client.respond now reports the
  harness's outcome so a closed question can be told from an answered one.
- New strings in values, values-b+zh+Hans and values-b+zh+Hant.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Android and iOS now support typed answers for eligible pending questions, including composer routing and card-level answer fields. Question options can stack vertically. The chat header replaces the thread-name switcher with an accessible Threads control.

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Question answering and chat interaction

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Question targeting and card rules
android/core/.../AskQuestion.kt, android/core/.../ApprovalCard.kt, ios/Sources/CompanionCore/..., android/core/src/test/..., ios/Tests/CompanionCoreTests/*
Core rules select eligible pending questions, format typed answers, and identify which cards accept typed answers or stack options. Tests cover targeting, answer formats, and layout rules.
Typed-answer submission results
android/core/.../Client.kt, android/core/.../Session.kt, ios/App/Session.swift, android/core/src/test/.../ClientTest.kt
Session methods submit typed answers and report answered, unavailable, or failed results. Android response decoding returns the optional outcome.
Typed-answer composer and card controls
android/app/.../ChatScreen.kt, android/app/.../MessageRow.kt, android/app/.../QuestionCard.kt, android/app/.../QueuedSendRow.kt, ios/App/ChatView.swift, ios/App/Cards/QuestionCardView.swift, localization files, preview fixtures, UI tests
Both clients route eligible composer text to pending questions and provide typed-answer fields on eligible cards. Option layouts and localized prompts are updated, with preview fixtures and tests for these interactions.
Thread header and navigation
android/app/.../ChatScreen.kt, android/app/src/test/.../AndroidThreadNavigationTest.kt, ios/App/ChatView.swift, ios/App/Localizable.xcstrings, ios/UITests/*
The header uses a Threads control instead of a thread-name switcher. Android adapts the visible label to available width. Accessibility text and navigation tests use the updated control.

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Change: Bug fix

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  participant Composer
  participant ComposerQuestion
  participant Session
  participant CompanionClient
  Composer->>ComposerQuestion: Select the sole eligible pending question
  Composer->>Session: Submit the typed answer
  Session->>CompanionClient: Send the answer request
  CompanionClient-->>Session: Return the response outcome
  Session-->>Composer: Report answered, gone, or failed
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If a question closes and the fallback message fails to send, the typed answer can be lost. This is a bounded issue in the new answer flow.

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Comment on lines +824 to +837
when (result) {
TypedAnswerResult.Answered -> Unit
// The question closed before the line reached it: say it
// as an ordinary message rather than lose it.
TypedAnswerResult.Gone -> session.send(text, chat)
// Hand the words back, with the reason under them.
is TypedAnswerResult.Failed -> {
if (target.text.isBlank()) {
target.onTypedChange(text)
publishFrom(target)
}
attachmentError = result.message
}
}

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Handle a failed fallback send in the Gone branch.

In the Gone branch, the composer is already cleared, and then session.send(text, chat) runs. If that send fails, perform sets session.actionError, and the typed words are not restored to the composer. The PR states that failures restore the text. Use the attachment-capable session.send(text, emptyList(), chat), which returns a Boolean. If it returns false, restore the text the same way the Failed branch does.

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Resolved the conflict with current main while preserving the extracted composer and TranscriptActions architecture. Fixed Android typed-answer fallback so failed ordinary sends restore the draft instead of dropping the text. Verification: 11 focused Swift question/layout tests pass; full iOS arm64 simulator builds pass on this branch and together with the updated connector-card PR. Android behavior/build remains covered by CI, not claimed as locally device-tested.

PieterVO added a commit to PieterVO/OpenMausBot that referenced this pull request Oct 6, 2026
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Upstream's last mobile work before the Cleanup, merged into the redesign:

- iOS milind-soni#2351 (rows that do not redraw on every update) solved the same
  problem as this fork's Equatable MessageRow and session-free rows. Ours
  stays; upstream's TranscriptRows.swift and MessagePresentation are
  dropped. Its redraw probe is ported onto MessageRow so its stricter
  ResponsivenessUITests budgets run against our rows, and its screenshot
  downsampling (decode at the drawn width, cached) is ported into ScreenShot.
- milind-soni#2359: stacked question options, answers typed into a question card and
  from the composer ("Answer Pepper…", Submit answer), on both platforms,
  styled for the redesign. The header keeps the redesign's name pill on
  both platforms, so upstream's Threads chip and its tests are not taken.
- Android milind-soni#2363 frame batching and fleet-keyed Home folds alongside our
  per-thread caches; tests that wait for stream state advance the batch
  window as upstream's do (StreamBatches.waitForStream).
- Android milind-soni#2362 translations, milind-soni#2300, milind-soni#2296 and the Computer engine removal
  (milind-soni#2329) merged; HardCodedCopyTest now passes (debug animation labels
  dropped, digest copy and expand states translated).
- Server: Computer engine removal is authoritative; the fork's Full-access
  refusal reasons, omp driver and Cua Spaces backend kept on top.
- ChatView.body split into screen and lifecycle, and the table width key
  typed, to stay under the 500 ms type-check budget CI enforces.

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