[Awaiting checklist completion] [$500] No space after emoji or cursor displayed before emoji on android chrome and ios native

[m-natarajan]

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Version Number: 1.3.81-5
Reproducible in staging?: y
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
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Issue reported by: @dhanashree-sawant
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1696939352410509

Action Performed:

1. Open the app
2. Open any report
3. Type emoji text in following way ': joy:'
4. Remove space before text to convert it to emoji
5. Observe in android chrome, there is no space after emoji and in IOS native, cursor is displayed before emoji

Expected Result:

App should add space after emoji on converting emoji text to emoji

Actual Result:

App does not display space after emoji on android chrome and displays cursor before emoji on IOS native on converting emoji text to emoji when typed in specific way

Workaround:

Can the user still use Expensify without this being fixed? Have you informed them of the workaround?

Platforms:

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

• Android: Native
• Android: mWeb Chrome
• iOS: Native
• iOS: mWeb Safari
• MacOS: Chrome / Safari
• MacOS: Desktop

Screenshots/Videos

Android: Native

Android: mWeb Chrome

az_recorder_20231011_202142.1.mp4

android.chrome.space.after.emoji.issue.mp4

iOS: Native

ios.native.space.after.emoji.issue.mov

iOS: mWeb Safari

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

MacOS: Desktop

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Triggered auto assignment to @twisterdotcom (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details.

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Triggered auto assignment to Contributor-plus team member for initial proposal review - @aimane-chnaif (External)

[roksanaz]

I investigated this issue and I couldn't reproduce it on Android (the space appeared after the emoji on mobile website on Chrome).
As for iOS, I tested other chat apps to search if this is the issue with Expensify app only or rather with iOS, e.g. Slack, and if you type ': joy:' and remove the space between the colon and "j" afterwards, the emoji isn't even converted. Should this issue be treated as a bug or not then?

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[twisterdotcom]

It does work on the iOS app and on web, just not the Android app.

And for Slack, they do render it after you remove the space:

29405.mp4