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fix: let host-app touches through when the survey has no overlay [ENG-3157] - #87

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Ref ENG-3157

Depends on formbricks/formbricks#9242 being deployed; until then the SDK keeps taking every touch. iOS counterpart: formbricks/ios#57.

What & why

Was: a survey with overlay: none painted nothing over the host app but swallowed every touch, so the app looked frozen until it closed. none is the default overlay.

Now: only the survey card takes touches; everything else reaches the host app. Light and dark overlays still block, as before.

Where to look

  • webview/FormbricksFragment.kt: show() picks the path; attachToHostContent places the view.
  • webview/SurveyPassthroughLayout.kt: the touch decision and keyboard padding.
  • webview/SurveyTouchRegion.kt: the three states (no rect yet / card / no card).
How it works, and behaviour changes worth checking

The survey sat in a full-screen BottomSheetDialogFragment. A dialog is its own window, and Android picks the window by bounds before any view sees the touch, so no amount of transparency lets a touch through. For overlay: none the same fragment now runs without a dialog: its view goes into the host Activity's content, wrapped in a layout that declines touch-downs outside the card rect the renderer reports. The parent then offers the touch to the host's own content underneath. light / dark keep the dialog, since their backdrop is meant to block.

  • Back closes a no-overlay survey. The dialog swallowed back (not cancelable). Passing it to the host could navigate away and leave the survey floating over another screen.
  • A second survey no longer stacks. The host is usable mid-survey, so it can track() again; show() now skips while a survey fragment is showing. isShowingSurvey is write-only on Android, so this checks the fragment manager instead.
  • Keyboard. Edge-to-edge windows (default from Android 15) do not shrink for the keyboard, so the layout pads by however much of it the keyboard covers, measured from the root insets. Zero when the host already resizes.
  • No child-FragmentManager crash. The fragment is added without a container and places its own view into android.R.id.content, so a host that passed a child manager does not hit "No view found for id".
  • One overlay rule. The WebView payload and the path choice both use SurveyOverlay.resolve, so they cannot disagree.
  • A host dialog opened while the survey is up covers it. Staying above it would need the overlay permission.

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Behaviour Level
overlay: none: host usable beside the card, card inside, nothing left after close manual: emulator (API 36.1), local #9242 web
Keyboard: card above it, no gap after it closes; back closes keyboard, then survey manual
overlay: light: bottom-sheet dialog unchanged, host blocked manual
A second survey never stacks, even when show runs twice in one turn manual: Skipping survey … already showing; unit (mutation): aSecondShowInTheSameTurnDoesNotStackASecondSurvey, FormbricksFragment.kt:375 commitNow → commit
Touches outside the card reach the host view underneath, on the card the survey; blocks before a rect, passes all once the card is gone unit (mutation): SurveyPassthroughInstrumentedTest, drop the guard at SurveyPassthroughLayout.kt:40
Missing rect claims nothing; survey overlay beats workspace; keyboard padding never negative unit (mutation): SurveyTouchRegion.kt:77 → Everything, Survey.kt:64 swap operands, SurveyPassthroughLayout.kt:83 drop max

Rerun: ./gradlew :android:connectedDebugAndroidTest -Pandroid.testInstrumentationRunnerArguments.class=com.formbricks.android.webview.SurveyPassthroughInstrumentedTest,com.formbricks.android.webview.SurveyTouchRegionInstrumentedTest

Full instrumented suite: 150 tests (API 36.1 emulator).

Open gaps

  • Emulator only: no device, tablet, landscape or mid-survey rotation.
  • A host on adjustPan would pan and pad; not tried.

Breaking changes

  • This PR contains a breaking change

WebAppCallback.onCardRectChange is defaulted, so implementors still compile.

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The Android library adds a JavaScript event for survey card rectangles and passes nullable rectangle data through the native callback path. It resolves survey and workspace overlay settings, then displays surveys as dialogs or in passthrough mode. In passthrough mode, the reported card rectangle configures touch routing, and the layout adjusts its bottom padding for keyboard insets. Instrumented tests cover rectangle decoding, touch regions, touch routing, keyboard calculations, and overlay resolution.

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Repeated survey triggers can display overlapping surveys before the first presentation completes. Include pending presentations in the duplicate guard before merging.

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  • android/src/androidTest/AndroidManifest.xml
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  • android/src/androidTest/java/com/formbricks/android/webview/SurveyTouchRegionInstrumentedTest.kt
  • android/src/androidTest/java/com/formbricks/android/webview/WebAppInterfaceInstrumentedTest.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/formbricks/android/model/javascript/CardRectData.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/formbricks/android/model/javascript/EventType.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/formbricks/android/model/workspace/Survey.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/formbricks/android/webview/FormbricksFragment.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/formbricks/android/webview/FormbricksViewModel.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/formbricks/android/webview/SurveyPassthroughLayout.kt
  • android/src/main/java/com/formbricks/android/webview/SurveyTouchRegion.kt
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