Group - Offline added avatar is not showing with reduced opacity

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: v1.4.63-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: N
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): [email protected]
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Issue reported by: Applause-Internal team

Action Performed:

1. Crate a group chat
2. Navigate to the group chat
3. Apply offline mode
4. Click on chat header > click on upload avatar icon
5. Upload avatar

Expected Result:

Avatar should be grayed out

Actual Result:

Avatar is not grayed out

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

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

Screenshots/Videos

Bug6453314_1713426435179.offline_avatar.mp4

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[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @flodnv (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @abekkala (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

[github-actions]

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[izarutskaya]

@abekkala I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors.

[izarutskaya]

We think this issue might be related to the #vip-vsb.

[nexarvo]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

Offline added avatar is not grayed out

What is the root cause of that problem?

Right now we don't set pendingFields for group avatars that's why The pendingAction is null here:

App/src/components/AvatarWithImagePicker.tsx

Line 301 in 9b839f4

pendingAction={pendingAction}

We are not setting pendingFields in updateGroupChatAvatar

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

We can set pendingFields in optimistic data here:

const optimisticData: OnyxUpdate[] = [
    {
        onyxMethod: Onyx.METHOD.MERGE,
        key: `${ONYXKEYS.COLLECTION.REPORT}${reportID}`,
        value: {
            avatarUrl: file?.uri ?? '',
+            pendingFields: {
+               avatar: CONST.RED_BRICK_ROAD_PENDING_ACTION.UPDATE,
+           },
        },
    },
];

Finally we will pass pendingActions below to be used in OfflineWithFeedback:

App/src/pages/ReportDetailsPage.tsx

Lines 231 to 247 in 9b839f4

	<AvatarWithImagePicker
	source={icons[0].source}
	isUsingDefaultAvatar={!report.avatarUrl}
	size={CONST.AVATAR_SIZE.XLARGE}
	avatarStyle={styles.avatarXLarge}
	shouldDisableViewPhoto
	onImageRemoved={() => {
	// Calling this without a file will remove the avatar
	Report.updateGroupChatAvatar(report.reportID ?? '');
	}}
	onImageSelected={(file) => Report.updateGroupChatAvatar(report.reportID ?? '', file)}
	editIcon={Expensicons.Camera}
	editIconStyle={styles.smallEditIconAccount}
	/>
	) : (
	<RoomHeaderAvatars
	icons={icons}

pendingAction={report?.pendingFields?.avatar ?? undefined}

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

[flodnv]

This is from #39757 @marcaaron 🙃

[marcaaron]

Definitely not a Deploy Blocker.

Avatar should be grayed out

@shawnborton What do you think about this?

We could use a greyscale filter on the image. There's a library here that can do it: https://github.com/iyegoroff/react-native-color-matrix-image-filters

[marcaaron]

@nexarvo I think it would have a default avatar, but not match the user uploaded avatar or default avatars for Group Chats. Or what else would it look like?

[shawnborton]

Ah, for offline pending patterns, we don't use grayscale filters - we just reduce opacity to something like 50%. Gut check from @trjExpensify & @Expensify/design please!

[trjExpensify]

Yeah, 50% opacity for pending create. The account profile avatar should have a good example to follow.

[nexarvo]

@shawnborton @marcaaron yes it's 50% opacity. Below I attached the screen shot for the result of my RCA above

Online	Offline

[marcaaron]

Ok cool, thanks for the memory refresh @trjExpensify @shawnborton 🙇

@nexarvo There's a small detail though that this already has an open issue here. And @s77rt is assigned. @s77rt have you made progress on that or would you like to work with @nexarvo on this one as the C+?

If so, I will close this and mark that other issue as External and keep you both assigned.

[dannymcclain]

Also quick note: I don't think the button should be 50% opacity, just the image, right? The button isn't disabled, so it should still be full opacity.

[nexarvo]

Coming from this comment from @s77rt. @marcaaron I think we can continue with your comment here

[shawnborton]

That's a great shout Danny, you are totally right about that.

[s77rt]

@marcaaron Working with @nexarvo sounds great!

@nexarvo Please comment on the other issue so you can be assigned. For the PR let's add the errors logic too, it's pretty straightforward, add errorFields.avatar

[nexarvo]

@dannymcclain @shawnborton for Profile and Workspace pages when we change picture offline then the icon also fades to 50% opacity. Do we need to make the behaviour of Group Chat avatar consistent with other pages ?

[shawnborton]

I think fading the icon is a bug and we should fix that so that only the picture is faded out and not the pencil icon. Can we fix that everywhere?

[dannymcclain]

I think fading the icon is a bug and we should fix that so that only the picture is faded out and not the pencil icon. Can we fix that everywhere?

Agree. If we can fix that everywhere that'd be awesome.

[marcaaron]

Closing in favor of #39983