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feat(mobile): float the Android composer as an island with the reply inside it - #4001

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Part of #3955. Stacked on #4000 (header without live blur). Brings the bottom of the Android chat in line with Telegram Android, matching the header islands.

What changes (Android only)

  • Composer island: the field keeps its opaque raised fill and gains the header islands' hairline rim, a 1dp inner top highlight and a soft drop shadow (chatComposerSurface). They are drawn with React Native boxShadow (inset for the highlight), so nothing is captured or blurred.
  • Reply inside the island: Composer takes a new inside slot, drawn inside the field pill above the attachments and text row. On Android the reply bar uses it, so the quote is part of the floating input as in Telegram. iOS keeps the reply bar above the composer.
  • Bottom fade: on Android it is no longer held solid up to the pill. It uses the header's curve, from 0.91 at the screen edge to transparent edgeFade.bottom above the pill, so messages show faintly beside and below the floating composer. iOS is unchanged.
  • The header fade now also starts under the status bar (from perf(mobile): draw the Android chat header without a live blur #4000's last commit).
  • DESIGN.md records all three, with a bilingual change fragment.

Verification

  • New composer test: the inside content renders in the same pill as the text field, and the above content stays outside it.
  • Composer, reply, token and conversation tests pass, and so do pnpm lint, pnpm format:check, pnpm changelog:check and the mobile typecheck.
  • The full mobile suite fails only account-hosts and pairing-certificate. Both expect English strings and get Chinese on this Windows machine's locale; neither file is touched here.
  • Physical Android phone, Release aa959249b379, light and dark:
    • at rest the composer is an island with a visible rim and shadow;
    • swiping left on a message puts "回复 Perf QA" and its quote inside the island above the field, and ✕ cancels it;
    • the shadow isn't clipped by the pill's overflow: hidden.
    • The in-app appearance was switched to dark for the check and set back to light.

Performance (one run each; previous = #4000 head, this = PR head)

#4000 this PR
Warm fling: presented-interval P95 16.6 ms 8.3 ms
Warm fling: app deadline missed 7 7
Cold paging: app deadline missed 55 56
Cold paging: RenderThread per-frame avg / P95 5.27 / 6.7 ms 5.83 / 7.3 ms
Cold paging: RenderThread frames > 8.3ms 6 11

Frame-level results are flat. RenderThread costs about 0.5ms more per frame, most likely the composer's drop shadow, and stays under the 8.3ms budget. The warm-fling P95 change is within single-run noise.

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  • New Features
    • The Android chat composer now floats above messages with a rim and shadow. Replies appear inside the composer above the text, and the message list fades beneath it rather than ending in a solid band.
    • The Android jump-to-latest button now has a rim and layered shadow to match the composer.
    • Content displayed above the draft editor can now scroll within a limited area when the editor expands.

DoodleBears and others added 2 commits November 11, 2026 20:20
…inside it

The composer field gets the header islands' rim, top highlight and soft shadow,
the reply quote moves into the field pill above the text, and the bottom fade
follows the header's curve from the screen edge, as Telegram Android does.

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The chat composer gains Android-specific rim, highlight, and shadow styling. Android places the reply bar inside the composer and uses a composer-surface bottom fade. iOS retains separate reply-bar placement and its existing solid-cover behavior.

Changes: Composer Island

Layer / File(s) Summary
Composer surface styling
apps/mobile/src/ui/design/tokens.ts, apps/mobile/src/ui/chat/composer-chrome.tsx, apps/mobile/src/ui/chat/composer-chrome.ios.tsx, apps/mobile/src/ui/chat/jump-to-latest.tsx
A new token defines light and dark rim, highlight, and shadow values. Android composer chrome and the non-iOS, non-glass jump-to-latest control use these values. The iOS shadow helper returns undefined.
Composer content placement
apps/mobile/src/ui/chat/composer.tsx, apps/mobile/src/ui/chat/draft-editor.tsx, apps/mobile/src/ui/design/tokens.ts, apps/mobile/test/composer-dictation.test.tsx
The composer accepts optional inside content. It renders that content above attachments when not editing and passes it before above content when editing. The draft editor wraps above content in a scroll view capped at the configured maximum. Tests check placement in the pill and expanded editor.
Conversation screen integration
apps/mobile/src/ui/chat/conversation-screen.tsx, apps/mobile/DESIGN.md, changes/3955-android-composer-island.md
Android places the reply bar inside the composer and uses the composer surface fade without a solid cover. The design guidance and changelog describe the platform-specific treatment.

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Suggested labels: feature:channel

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Merge Risk: Low · previous review 151b3

On Android, a long mention list in a reply can scroll the reply target out of view, so a user could send a reply without seeing which message it targets. This is a narrow edge case and does not block the rest of the composer styling work.

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