[$250] Android -Distance - Distance tab is gray and not highlighted in green when swiping to Distance

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Version Number: 9.0.52-2 Reproducible in staging?: Y Reproducible in production?: N If this was caught on HybridApp, is this reproducible on New Expensify Standalone?: N If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail: N/A Email or phone of affected tester (no customers): applausetester+kh1610015@applause.expensifail.com Issue reported by: Applause - Internal Team

Action Performed:

1. Launch ND or hybrid app.
2. Open FAB > Submit expense
3. Go to Manual
4. Swipe to Scan, then swipe to Distance

Expected Result:

Distance tab will be highlighted in green when swiping to Distance tab (production behavior)

Actual Result:

Distance tab is gray and not highlighted in green when swiping to Distance tab The tab is only green when it is tapped on This issue also happens in Scan tab when it is swiped from Distance to Scan

Workaround:

Unknown

Platforms:

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

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

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @rayane-djouah

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Proposal

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

What is the root cause of that problem?

when we calculate opacity for android device, we wrongly compare with isActive prop which is meant for web platforms, on native devices we rely on Index values of the current tag to select the opacity of the selected tab

https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/65b739d3befa22d49dec5c142a9fb9745944aa28/src/components/TabSelector/getOpacity/index.native.ts#L12.

isActive is meant for web platforms and we define it here in the web file below: https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/65b739d3befa22d49dec5c142a9fb9745944aa28/src/components/TabSelector/getOpacity/index.ts#L8

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

We should remove the isActive check in native file as it is meant for web platforms only:

const getOpacity: GetOpacity = ({routesLength, tabIndex, active, affectedTabs, position}) => {
    const activeValue = active ? 1 : 0;
    const inactiveValue = active ? 0 : 1;

    if (routesLength > 1) {
        const inputRange = Array.from({length: routesLength}, (v, i) => i);

        return position?.interpolate({
            inputRange,
            outputRange: inputRange.map((i) => (affectedTabs.includes(tabIndex) && i === tabIndex ? activeValue : inactiveValue)),
        });
    }
    return activeValue;
};

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What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

[Krishna2323]

Edited by proposal-police: This proposal was edited at 2024-10-22 21:49:27 UTC.

Proposal


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

Android -Distance - Distance tab is gray and not highlighted in green when swiping to Distance

What is the root cause of that problem?

• In this PR we removed the useCallback hook and now the getBackgroundColor is called unnecessarily whenever the tab items are mapped.

https://github.com/Expensify/App/blob/65b739d3befa22d49dec5c142a9fb9745944aa28/src/components/TabSelector/TabSelector.tsx#L73-L75

• Without useCallback, the getBackgroundColor and getOpacity functions are recreated on every render. This can cause unnecessary recalculations of the background and opacity interpolations, which might cause issues with how Android handles these animations.

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


• We can just create functions which will call getOpacity & getBackgroundColor at the top level of the component (outside the map function).
• It will work with of without useCallback hook.

What alternative solutions did you explore? (Optional)

Result

[rayane-djouah]

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