UI glitch (3.5.0 regression): Text input box height increases after clearing (caused by new voice message button)

[Norbert80]

1) Go into any chat 2) Enter any character into the text input field 3) Delete the character while watching the height of the input field: Note that the height increases slightly leading to a shift of the whole chat history. 4) Enter any character. Note that the height decreases again. 5) When deleting the character height increases again...

Note that this happens in groups and push conversations but not in SMS conversations.

Regression found in Signal 3.5.0 Android.

[2-4601]

Which device, ROM and keyboard are you using? Do you have system (Android) emojis turned on or off in Signal's Advanced settings?

Cannot reproduce on Nexus 4, stock 5.1.1, system keyboard. Tried both system emojis turned on and off.

Can reproduce a similar behaviour with Huawei U8800, Android 4.0.4, system keyboard. But only when system emoji setting is turned off (or if there's a zombie emoji drawer button, see #4638). However the text input field resizing is a bit different than what @Norbert80 described. Namely:

• When I type a letter, there's no resizing (i.e. no issue)
• When I remove the last letter the input box grows one pixel from both top and bottom and then immediately shrinks back to normal. The chat history does not move.

Signal 3.5.0

[Norbert80]

Samsung Galaxy Note 4

Latest official Samsung Firmware with Android 5.1.1

Default Samsung keyboard

Signal 3.5.0

EDIT in inital description: 5) "entering a" replaced with "deleting the"

[Norbert80]

I think it happens when the new (in build 3.5.0 introduced) microphone button slides in and out.

[zebra-ok]

I'm experiencing the same bug with Signal 3.5.0 (Nexus 5 / OmniRom using the AOSP keyboard):

[Norbert80]

Thanks. This is exactly what I experience. It looks like the initial smaller height is the normal height while the increased height is not normal.

[Norbert80]

@moxie0 in release 3.5.1 the voice message button is missing! Did you remove voice message feature intentionally?

This makes this bug not appearing in release 3.5.1.

This finally confirmes that this bug is caused by the voice message button from release 3.5.0.

[McLoo]

@Norbert80 see https://github.com/WhisperSystems/Signal-Android/commit/885fc88aad2b45822bfd9734012b76a36355443f

[Rolf558]

This one is fixed with build 3.23.0 that introduces voice messages again. Could someone please close it?

[2-4601]

Seems to be fixed for me too. How about @Norbert80 ?