Rotating the screen when attachment keyboard is open will close the attachment keyboard

[farewelltospring]

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Bug description

1. Open attachment keyboard
2. Rotate screen orientation (e.g. from portrait to landscape)

Expected behaviour: attachment keyboard is still open in landscape mode

Actual behaviour: attachment keyboard is automatically closed

After some investigation, I found that when the screen orientation changes, MainActivity is destroyed and re-created (expected), and then the ConversationFragment is destroyed and re-created (expected), and then the AttachmentKeyboardFragment is destroyed and re-created (expected). AND THEN, a NEW ConversationFragment is created, and then the AttachmentKeyboardFragment and the ConversationFragment are destroyed.

I have identified this commit affecting AndroidManifest.xml as the culprit. Undoing the change to the android:configChanges attribute restores the expected behaviour.

Screenshots

Screen_recording_20251129_010318.webm

Device

Google Pixel 9 (emulator)

Android version

API 35

Signal version

7.66.3

Link to debug log

When you rotate the screen orientation, this is the logcat:

01:04:57.539  D  [MainActivity] onStop()
01:04:57.547  D  [AttachmentKeyboardFragm] onStop()
01:04:57.548  D  [ConversationFragment] onStop()
01:04:57.599  D  [MainActivity] onDestroy()
01:04:57.599  D  [AttachmentKeyboardFragm] onDestroy()
01:04:57.599  D  [ConversationFragment] onDestroy()
01:04:57.643  D  [MainActivity] onCreate()
01:04:57.660  D  [ConversationFragment] onCreate()
01:04:57.665  D  [AttachmentKeyboardFragm] onCreate()
01:04:57.694  D  [MainActivity] onStart()
01:04:57.914  D  [ConversationFragment] onStart()
01:04:57.915  D  [AttachmentKeyboardFragm] onStart()
# this is when the weird stuff begins
01:04:58.089  D  [ConversationFragment] onCreate()
01:04:58.217  D  [ConversationFragment] onStart()
01:04:58.404  D  [AttachmentKeyboardFragm] onStop()
01:04:58.408  D  [ConversationFragment] onStop()
01:04:58.416  D  [AttachmentKeyboardFragm] onDestroy()
01:04:58.417  D  [ConversationFragment] onDestroy()

[abbas2399]

So, whenever someone records a voice message, they have to hold the voice input icon for them to record. If the orientation changes by itself or done by the user, then I think the message is canceled.