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What Changed

On Android tablets the mobile app uses the split layout, where the thread list is a persistent sidebar. The sidebar toggle already exists in the adaptive workspace layout and iOS wires it into the native header, but the Android in-flow headers never got the action. This PR adds it in the places iOS already has it:

  • ThreadRouteScreen: sidebar action in the Android split-view header.
  • ThreadFilesRouteScreen: sidebar action in the Android files tree header and the single file header.
  • WorkspaceEmptyDetail and HomeRouteScreen: a "Show threads" button on the empty Home pane while the sidebar is hidden. Android hides the header on this pane, so without it the Android back gesture from a maximized thread would land on a blank screen with no way to bring the sidebar back.

The terminal screen already had the Android action, so the new ones follow its pattern and labels. On Android the action always uses the sidebar glyph (the terminal header is updated to match) so the control reads the same whether the sidebar is open or closed. iOS keeps its Mail-style icons. No layout thresholds, contracts, or shared state changed.

Why

On a Daylight DC1 (Android, tablet-sized) the sidebar takes a third of the screen and cannot be hidden, so a thread can never take the whole screen. Phones never hit this because the compact layout has no persistent sidebar, which is why the gap went unnoticed. This restores parity with iOS and keeps the hide/show state reversible from every screen that renders beside the sidebar.

UI Changes

Before, on the Daylight DC1. The sidebar is always visible and there is no control to hide it:

before

After: the thread, files, and file headers gain a maximize/show-threads action, and the empty Home pane shows a "Show threads" button while the sidebar is hidden.

after

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  • New Features

    • Added sidebar toggle controls to Android split-view headers for threads, files, and terminal screens.
    • Added a “Show threads” button to empty detail views when the threads sidebar is hidden.
    • Added sidebar access alongside the existing “New Task” action.
  • Improvements

    • Standardized sidebar control icons and behavior across split-view screens.
    • Updated accessibility labels to clearly indicate whether the action will show threads or maximize content.

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Verdict: Approved at 0b103a1

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — This is a small, localized Android tablet UI fix that wires existing sidebar-toggle state into split-view headers and restores a reversible path from the empty Home pane. Defaults, iOS behavior, navigation contracts, and shared layout mechanics remain unchanged.

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Android split-view thread, file, terminal, and home screens now provide controls to show or maximize the primary sidebar. Empty workspace detail renders a Show threads button when the sidebar is hidden.

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Android split-view sidebar controls

Layer / File(s) Summary
Header sidebar controls
apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/files/ThreadFilesRouteScreen.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/terminal/ThreadTerminalRouteScreen.tsx
Thread and file headers add primary-sidebar toggle actions for split layouts. The terminal header uses the sidebar.left icon consistently.
Empty detail sidebar control
apps/mobile/src/features/layout/WorkspaceEmptyDetail.tsx, apps/mobile/src/features/home/HomeRouteScreen.tsx
WorkspaceEmptyDetail accepts an optional sidebar callback and renders a Show threads button when provided. Home supplies the callback when the primary sidebar is hidden.

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Change: Bug fix

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Android users can still toggle the sidebar, but the visible-state icon misleadingly suggests restoring the sidebar rather than maximizing the content pane.

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- Around line 126-132: Update the WorkspaceEmptyDetail onShowSidebar prop in
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android and the primary sidebar is hidden; keep it undefined for iOS, including
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bennyhodl force-pushed the fix/android-tablet-sidebar-toggle branch 2 times, most recently from 0b51cd3 to 840e0ab Compare September 12, 2026 14:56
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In `@apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx`:
- Line 720: Update the primary-sidebar controls in ThreadRouteScreen,
ThreadFilesRouteScreen, and ThreadTerminalRouteScreen to select
"arrow.up.left.and.arrow.down.right" when panes.primarySidebarVisible is true
and "sidebar.left" otherwise, matching the existing split-view state-aware
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Comment thread apps/mobile/src/features/threads/ThreadRouteScreen.tsx
In the split layout the persistent thread sidebar could not be hidden on
Android. iOS wires the toggle through the native header, but the Android
in-flow headers for the thread, files tree, and file screens never added
the action, and the Home empty pane hides its header entirely.

Add the sidebar action to those Android headers, matching the terminal
screen, and show a "Show threads" button on the empty Home pane while
the sidebar is hidden so the state is reversible.
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bennyhodl force-pushed the fix/android-tablet-sidebar-toggle branch from 1d64508 to 218b704 Compare September 14, 2026 14:22
Sowyu pushed a commit to Sowyu/t3pretzel that referenced this pull request Sep 15, 2026
Fixes reproduced on an Android emulator and from upstream reports.

Feed: Android stops drawing a text view past the GPU's maximum texture
height, so a long list rendered as one selectable Text lost its tail and
took seconds per frame to draw. Long lists now split into 40-item chunks.
Wide assistant markdown blocks keep a pinned width; the feed reserves
bottom padding.

Keyboard: the feed re-pins after keyboard transitions settle and when the
composer collapses; the back gesture collapses the composer; sticky
composers only follow the keyboard after a fresh show or real focus
(upstream pingdotgg#8212).

Terminal: hardware Enter no longer moves focus off the terminal; keyboards
that use deleteSurroundingText (FUTO) send Backspace; forward delete works.

Also: stream haptics no longer buzz every 320ms on Android and all haptics
use the system engine; thread settings apply on tap without Save; typed
pairing codes are normalized to the server format; non-git projects fall
back to the current checkout instead of a dead worktree default; user CA
certificates are trusted; Ctrl/Cmd+Enter sends from a hardware keyboard;
thread rename, project favicons in the filter, tablet sidebar toggle,
desktop-window density, route titles, Material You review colors, bottom
gesture-bar insets, and the composer placeholder clipping (upstream PRs
pingdotgg#11503, pingdotgg#11370, pingdotgg#11339, pingdotgg#8200, pingdotgg#8717, pingdotgg#11445, pingdotgg#6003, pingdotgg#5052, pingdotgg#8362, pingdotgg#10709,
pingdotgg#11611, pingdotgg#8800, adapted).
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The user highlighted that the new left-sidebar trigger sits among the trailing content actions. Latest PR head remains 218b704a3cf2b706ee751f0f068cba16a9037dac. Source confirms it is appended to androidHeaderActions, which AndroidScreenHeader renders after the title. The sidebar action controls workspace navigation and should occupy a leading slot before the content title; the right inspector action should stay trailing. This is a design revision to the otherwise useful functional fix, not a newly discovered broken callback. Request the placement change before merge.

The smallest implementation is a leading-action slot in the existing Android header, used for sidebar visibility in split layouts while preserving compact Back semantics. Apply consistently to chat, file tree/single-file and terminal headers, and retain headerless Home recovery. Keep the trigger available when the sidebar is hidden. No new navigation rail or header rewrite is necessary for this release.

Android's responsive navigation guidance places wide-screen navigation on the leading edge. Google's documented Gmail tablet migration and Drive tablet redesign move navigation to the side. Those examples support a left navigation region; the exact before-title position is my T3 Code design recommendation.

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