[$500] Chat - Screen blinks when open conversation

[lanitochka17]

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Version Number: 1.4.10-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
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Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team
Slack conversation:

Action Performed:

1. Navigate to staging.new.expensify.com
2. Log in expensifail account
3. Click FAB
4. Click Start Chat
5. Select any chat with conversations

Expected Result:

Conversation screen should open

Actual Result:

Conversation screen blinks

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

Which of our officially supported platforms is this issue occurring on?

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• Windows: Chrome
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Add any screenshot/video evidence

Bug6306286_1702069077567.Recording__1514.mp4

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Triggered auto assignment to @MitchExpensify (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @fedirjh (External)

[AmjedNazzal]

I this issue exclusive to expensifail accounts? if that's the case, shouldn't this be internal?

[shahinyan11]

My proposal for another issue will most likely fix this problem too

[melvin-bot]

@MitchExpensify, @fedirjh Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[fedirjh]

Still awaiting proposals.

[melvin-bot]

📣 It's been a week! Do we have any satisfactory proposals yet? Do we need to adjust the bounty for this issue? 💸

[fedirjh]

Log in expensifail account

I was not able to reproduce on staging v1.4.13-5 . @lanitochka17 Is this bug only reproduced with expensifail accounts ?

[lanitochka17]

Issue reproducible on gmail account too. I used an account with a lot of conversations
Build 1.4.13-5

Recording.738.mp4

[keisyrzk]

Do you mean this "loading" view state?

If so it happens on ios as well. Btw. it looks like it happens only the first time you enter the conversation.

report: {
                key: ({route}) => `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT}${getReportID(route)}`,
                allowStaleData: true,
                selector: reportWithoutHasDraftSelector,
            },

The "loading state" matches this code execution. If you wish not to see such a state perhaps we should move data fetching to the reports list view. Get the report's data on conversation record selection and when received navigate to its view. If you like to do so, we may expect some delay between click and navigation as data fetching in progress.
In this case, as a user, I would expect to see some kind of loader.

[MitchExpensify]

Not overdue, being actively worked on

[fedirjh]

@MitchExpensify I couldn’t recognise any bug in the recoerded video in #32752 (comment) . The skeleton is displayed at first (when we don't have any data yet) then the report is loaded and data displayed. Not sure what the screens blinks means in this case ?

[MitchExpensify]

I think the "blink" is referring to this screen:

Is that right @lanitochka17 ?

[keisyrzk]

If so, I do not experience such a behavior.

[MitchExpensify]

Let's close this in that case. Its so minor and doesn't block any wave