fix(mobile): Android threads no longer open to a blank screen

[gabynevada]

Problem

On Android, opening a populated thread can leave the entire app blank instead of showing its history and composer. Reproduced on a Samsung Fold (SM-F971U, Android 17 / API 37, arm64) at 54084ae1e6 with Reanimated 4.7.0 and keyboard-controller 1.22.4.

useExtraContentPadding calls scrollViewRef() inside its deferred Android scroll callback. Reanimated 4.7 serializes animated refs as objects on the UI runtime, so this throws TypeError: Object is not a function and destroys the React runtime. The same blocker was independently reported in #14661 and #14805.

Change

Remove the direct ref invocation and let Reanimated's existing scrollTo / dispatchCommand path handle the ref, including its null check. Preserve the deferred scroll and existing inset patch. Update the dependency patch's TypeScript, CommonJS, and ESM copies, then regenerate its lockfile hash.

Scope and approval

This qualifies for the very small, focused obvious-bug exception in CONTRIBUTING.md: it removes one invalid call that crashes an existing Android thread-opening flow. The two-file diff contains only the dependency patch and its lockfile hash; no dependency upgrade or product behavior change is introduced.

The affected path is Android mobile. The iOS branch is unchanged; web/desktop, providers, contracts, and connection modes do not require changes.

Verification

• Clean upstream worktree: CI=1 vp install --frozen-lockfile --offline successfully applied the patch; vp run --filter @t3tools/mobile typecheck and git diff --check passed.
• A focused diagnostic using the actual production-transformed keyboard-controller worklet and Reanimated scroll/dispatch functions reproduced the baseline TypeError. With the patch, the requested scroll is deferred one frame, valid refs dispatch correctly, initially empty refs and refs cleared before the callback safely skip dispatch, and the iOS Fabric offset path stays synchronous.
• Built and installed a signed standalone release APK on the Fold. Two existing threads loaded their history and composer; scrolling, keyboard opening/dismissal, and Back navigation worked. Device logs contained no recurrence of the original host exception or React runtime destruction.

Device evidence uses a personal release variant based on 54084ae1e6, with unrelated fork changes held constant between failing and fixed builds. The three patched dependency files match the versions installed and checked in the clean PR worktree. iOS was not device-tested.

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Before: blank thread	After: history and composer load

After: keyboard open

Implemented and device-verified with GPT-6.1-Sol; isolated and prepared with GPT-6-Astra, both through the Codex harness.

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Approvability

Verdict: Approved at 7514749

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a narrowly scoped Android crash fix in an existing keyboard-scroll path, with synchronized generated dependency variants and only a lockfile hash update. It introduces no new capability, product-default change, static-analysis override, schema change, or sensitive-area behavior.

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Walkthrough

KeyboardChatScrollView adds UIKit inset-compensation options and adjusts scroll-offset calculations to use them. The patch also changes deferred scrolling to call scrollTo without checking the mounted ref.

Changes

Keyboard chat scrolling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Inset-compensated scroll targets patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.4.patch	Extra-padding calculations include adjusted inset compensation. Non-inverted scroll targets use the adjusted start inset as their minimum.
Deferred scroll dispatch patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.4.patch	The deferred scroll path calls scrollTo without checking the mounted ref.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to 75147

On iOS, a safe-area and composer-height change together can leave a thread scroll target short by one inset. This is a bounded scrolling defect, not the Android thread-opening failure.

Architecture Summary

Architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 75147

The change affects 1 system.

Changed systems: patches

Architecture concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

Review details

Systems and components

• observed — patches (service) was modified; 1 changed file maps to changed impact.

Before / after behavior

• observed — Modified behavior in patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.4.patch: The CommonJS patch-file index metadata changed.
• observed — Modified behavior in patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.4.patch: The deferred scroll path removes the mounted-ref check and return; it now calls scrollTo directly, with a comment noting Reanimated 4.7 animated refs may be serialized as objects on the UI runtime.
• observed — Modified behavior in patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.4.patch: Extra-padding delta calculations add adjustedInsetCompensation to the previous and current effective totals.
• observed — Modified behavior in patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.4.patch: The module patch-file index metadata changed.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main Android fix: threads no longer open to a blank screen.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description covers the problem, change, scope and approval basis, verification steps, observed results, limitations, screenshots, and agent attribution. It matches the reported Android crash fix a…
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 0…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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🟡 Minor · Include adjustedInsetCompensation in the… · react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.4.patch:220-236

patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.4.patch:220-236
🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Include adjustedInsetCompensation in the reaction input.

On an iOS automatic-inset detail screen, a safe-area change can occur while the composer is mounted and its measured height changes. ThreadDetailScreen passes the new safe-area value both as heightAdjustment and as contentInsetEndStaticAdjustment; onComposerLayout can then update the shared contentInsetEndAdjustment used as extraContentPadding.

The reaction captures the new adjustedInsetCompensation for both totals. effectiveDelta therefore excludes the safe-area delta, while maxScroll includes it. The non-inverted target can remain one safe-area inset short.

Suggested fix

-      useAnimatedReaction(() => extraContentPadding.value, (current, previous) => {
+      useAnimatedReaction(
+        () => extraContentPadding.value + adjustedInsetCompensation,
+        (current, previous) => {
           if (previous === null) return;
           // Compute effective delta considering blankSpace floor
-          const previousTotal =
-            Math.max(blankSpace.value, keyboardPadding.value + previous) +
-            adjustedInsetCompensation;
-          const currentTotal =
-            Math.max(blankSpace.value, keyboardPadding.value + current) +
-            adjustedInsetCompensation;
+          const previousTotal = Math.max(blankSpace.value, keyboardPadding.value + previous);
+          const currentTotal = Math.max(blankSpace.value, keyboardPadding.value + current);

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Review comment at @patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.4.patch around
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Update the useAnimatedReaction input to include adjustedInsetCompensation so
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adjustedInsetCompensation so safe-area changes trigger the reaction, and remove
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Note

Grok responding on behalf of Julius.

Closing as superseded by #14850 (42b5885c90bcef05ba56acce00cdd2cb9d4998b7), which already landed the same Android release fix for useExtraContentPadding / scrollViewRef (TypeError: Object is not a function when opening a thread). Same files (patches/react-native-keyboard-controller@1.22.4.patch, pnpm-lock.yaml); no need for a second merge.