Expensify Card - Empty state card is top centered instead of middle centered

[izarutskaya]

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Version Number: 9.0.14-2 Reproducible in staging?: Y Reproducible in production?: N Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856 Issue reported by: Applause-Internal team

Action Performed:

1. Launch New Expensify app.
2. Go to workspace settings.
3. Go to Expensify Card.

Expected Result:

The empty state card will be middle centered (production behavior).

Actual Result:

Empty state card is top centered instead of middle centered.

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

• [x] Android: Native
• [x] Android: mWeb Chrome
• [x] iOS: Native
• [x] iOS: mWeb Safari
• [ ] MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• [ ] MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6f210635-f344-4d7a-9a20-cfdeaf973394

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[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @OfstadC (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.

[melvin-bot[bot]]

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

[github-actions[bot]]

:wave: Friendly reminder that deploy blockers are time-sensitive ⏱ issues! Check out the open `StagingDeployCash` deploy checklist to see the list of PRs included in this release, then work quickly to do one of the following:

1. Identify the pull request that introduced this issue and revert it.
2. Find someone who can quickly fix the issue.
3. Fix the issue yourself.

[izarutskaya]

We think this issue might be related to the #collect project.

[nyomanjyotisa]

Proposal

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

What is the root cause of that problem?

Coming from https://github.com/Expensify/App/pull/45996

Justify content set to flex-start if isSmallScreenWidth true https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/75be218706600c42c433540bdac2889f84479428/src/pages/workspace/expensifyCard/EmptyCardView.tsx#L41

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

We should change that to the following to make it center like on production and with the new button margin

emptyStateForegroundStyles={isSmallScreenWidth && {top: -(BUTTON_HEIGHT + BUTTON_MARGIN)}}

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

[allgandalf]

@DylanDylann @koko57 Was this intentional ?

[koko57]

Kind of. It was hard to center, bc we have a content below that appears after scrolling and on some devices the modal was cut off at the bottom (making the text hidden). I can work on this to fix it

[melvin-bot[bot]]

Triggered auto assignment to @anmurali (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.

[OfstadC]

Assigned to me while I was OoO - reassigning since this is time sensitive and i'm not back online fully until tomorrow . I can nab it back tomorrow if this ends up not being a blocker - or as urgent

[koko57]

it should not be a blocker as it's behind the beta

[koko57]

As I introduced the change and I am still working on the Workspace Feed project, can I be assigned to fix this issue?

cc @mountiny

[koko57]

Proposal

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

The Empty state modal is not centered.

What is the root cause of that problem?

Changes from https://github.com/Expensify/App/pull/45996 - previously the modal had additional styles similar to the ones suggested in the previous Proposal

https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/5430694a832c70b0541dff5d12242f5a204f00e5/src/pages/workspace/expensifyCard/EmptyCardView.tsx#L34

but they were insufficient in some cases, because on some devices the modal was cut off - that's why I introduced the "flex-start" change.

The real problem though was that the EmptyStateComponent wrapper's height was not calculated properly.

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

1. Change mt5 to pt5 (margin to padding) in this line: https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/5430694a832c70b0541dff5d12242f5a204f00e5/src/pages/workspace/expensifyCard/EmptyCardView.tsx#L26
2. On iOS we additionally need to add SafeArea inset top to the equation for calculating header height, because it's not taken into account in windowHeight value (it's the same as screenHeight)

this way we'll get the proper height for both iOS and Android (please ignore red line, the teal line is important here)

and we don't see the skeletons after scrolling (which was the case on some devices earlier) but the disclaimer is appearing right away.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

-

[github-actions[bot]]

true

[melvin-bot[bot]]

@youssef-lr, @anmurali Uh oh! This issue is overdue by 2 days. Don't forget to update your issues!

[DylanDylann]

@koko57 This belongs to our project. Please raise a quick PR for this

[DylanDylann]

@anmurali Please assign me and @koko57 to this issue

[koko57]

@DylanDylann PR ready for review https://github.com/Expensify/App/pull/46860

[melvin-bot[bot]]

This issue has not been updated in over 15 days. @youssef-lr, @anmurali, @koko57, @mountiny, @DylanDylann eroding to Monthly issue.

P.S. Is everyone reading this sure this is really a near-term priority? Be brave: if you disagree, go ahead and close it out. If someone disagrees, they'll reopen it, and if they don't: one less thing to do!

[koko57]

@mountiny I think we can close it

[mountiny]

Thanks!