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What Changed

Home rows away from the viewport (#13702) now render the same tree as the swipeable row instead of a separate plain frame.

  • thread-swipe-actions.tsx:
    • A dormant row renders the same ReanimatedSwipeable, with the swipe gesture off and no action buttons. Waking it turns the gesture on and adds the actions, so the row's content stays mounted.
    • The row is no longer keyed by resetKey. When the list reuses it for another thread, it resets in place: it cancels its animations, finishes a pending dismissal and resets the swipe, the same steps an unmount took.
  • Comments in swipe-row-activation.ts and HomeScreen.tsx now describe dormant rows accurately.

Why

Since #13702, a row switched from the plain frame to the swipeable row when the list came to rest or a finger lifted. That remounted the row's content:

  • Every favicon on screen reloaded, a visible flash just as you go to tap.
  • A tap that lands while the swap commits targets views that no longer exist, and Fabric drops it. JS never sees a touch start, so nothing opens.

Keeping one tree fixes both. Keying the always-rendered swipeable by resetKey would instead rebuild every recycled row while scrolling. That cost 4.8% janky frames against 3.6% in the same A/B, so the row resets in place instead.

Pixel 9, real account, release builds installed in place. Both builds are my test build (main plus unrelated local changes) and differ only by this PR.

before this PR
favicon reloads after the list comes to rest (6 flings) 19–22 per fling 0–6 per fling
taps 0.8–1.2 s after a fling that open the thread 3/15 7/15
janky frames over 60 fast flings (gfxinfo) 3.8% 3.6%

Taps at 0.8–0.9 s mostly land while the list is still moving, and stopping it is expected. Most misses left at about 1.0 s are fixed by the PR stacked on this one. The JS bundle grows by 63 bytes.

The existing Home tests pass. The change is to the render tree, so the evidence is the on-device measurement above.

UI Changes

The same fling, then a tap on a row about 1.15 s later. On the left is my test build before this PR: the rows remount as the list comes to rest and the tap is dropped. On the right, with this PR, the thread opens. The GIF is at half speed (MP4).

Tap right after a fling, before vs this PR

The icon flash lasts about one frame, too short to survive the GIF. These are two consecutive frames from the recording before this PR, taken as the list stops. Every project icon is blank, then back. The recording with this PR has no such frame.

Before this PR: two consecutive frames as the list stops, icons blank then back

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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • Bug Fixes
    • Home list rows now keep their content in place when swipe actions are unavailable, avoiding unnecessary remounts when those actions become available again.
    • Rows without swipe actions no longer show right-side actions, and open rows close when swipe actions are disabled.
    • When row content changes, swipe and animation state resets in place, preventing delayed updates from previous content from affecting the new row.

Rows away from the viewport rendered a different tree from the swipeable
row, so waking one remounted its content the moment the list came to rest
or a finger lifted. The favicons reloaded (a visible flash) and a tap that
landed on the old views was dropped before it reached the row.

Dormant rows now keep the swipeable tree with the gesture disabled and no
action buttons, so waking a row only adds its actions.
Every Home row now renders the swipeable, and keying it by resetKey rebuilt
the whole row, favicons included, each time the list reused it for another
thread while scrolling. The row now resets its swipe and animation state
when resetKey changes.
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Walkthrough

Swipe rows retain the same row tree while dormant. Recycled rows reset their swipe and animation state in place. Dormant rows disable swipe activation and omit right-side actions.

Changes

Swipe row lifecycle

Layer / File(s) Summary
Persistent row and recycled state
apps/mobile/src/features/home/thread-swipe-actions.tsx
ThreadSwipeable always renders ThreadSwipeableRow. When resetKey changes, the row cancels animations, finishes a pending dismissal, clears full-swipe state, and restores its state in place. Dismissal restores apply only to the current content generation.
Dormant swipe gating
apps/mobile/src/features/home/thread-swipe-actions.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/home/swipe-row-activation.ts, apps/mobile/src/features/home/HomeScreen.tsx
Dormant rows disable swipe activation and omit right-side actions. Comments describe the persistent row tree and deferred changes.

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Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to d5a1b

No merge-blocking issue was identified; the recycled-row dismissal path is guarded against a late restore.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to d5a1b

Dormant rows still block swipe actions, and dismissal cleanup is tied to the row’s current content. A limited uncertainty remains about late swipe callbacks when a row is reused; no security issue was verified.

Retained concerns

  • Low · reliability · inferred: If a close callback queued for old content arrives after the reused swipeable opens for a new thread, it can clear the new row’s open state and the parent’s open-row ownership. Whether the native component permits that ordering is unresolved.
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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The changed action reachability is confined to the client-side thread-row interaction: dormant swipes and action views are gated, while the existing caller remains the source of action callbacks.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Retaining dormant content does not retain its swipe-action view or enable its swipe gesture; an open row is also closed when it becomes dormant and has no active dismissal.

Hardening Proposals

  • proposed — Establish the swipeable’s callback-ordering behavior during reset and reuse, or exercise an old close arriving after a new open, before relying on instance identity for open-row ownership.
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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/features/home/thread-swipe-actions.tsx:
- Line 474: When props.dormant becomes true, reset the ReanimatedSwipeable row
so it does not retain an offset after its actions are hidden. Add an effect tied
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Verdict: Would Approve

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a localized mobile bug fix that keeps recycled Home-row content mounted while preserving swipe actions for active rows and resetting row state in place. A medium-severity finding flags a possible stale dismissal restoration during recycling, which remains a notable correctness risk.

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- A late restore from the previous content's dismissal no longer resets the
  row once the list has reused it for other content.
- A row that goes dormant while open now closes.
- Resetting a row that was open also turns off its tap-to-close gesture,
  which reset() left on and which cancelled the next press on the row.

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