[$500] Pronouns loses focus on coming back from new group page or search page

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Action Performed:

1. Open the app
2. Open settings->profile->pronouns
3. Open new group page or search page using keyboard shortcut
4. Go back

Expected Result:

App should not lose focus on coming back to pronouns page

Actual Result:

App loses focus on coming back to pronouns page from new group page or search page

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 / Chrome
• iOS / native
• iOS / Safari
• MacOS / Chrome / Safari
• MacOS / Desktop

Version Number: 1.3.59-0
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: y
If this was caught during regression testing, add the test name, ID and link from TestRail:
Email or phone of affected tester (no customers):
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

app.loses.focus.from.pronouns.on.coming.back.to.that.page.mp4

Recording.1543.mp4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @dhanashree-sawant
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C049HHMV9SM/p1692636606892199

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[hoangzinh]

Proposal

Please re-state the problem that we are trying to solve in this issue.

Pronouns loses focus on coming back from new group page or search page

What is the root cause of that problem?

In the PronounsPage component, we're using SelectionList component to render selection, and in SelectionList component, it only focuses on the search input when component is mounted

App/src/components/SelectionList/BaseSelectionList.js

Lines 269 to 285 in 1b63c76

	/** Focuses the text input when the component mounts. If `props.shouldDelayFocus` is true, we wait for the animation to finish */
	useEffect(() => {
	if (shouldShowTextInput) {
	if (shouldDelayFocus) {
	focusTimeoutRef.current = setTimeout(() => textInputRef.current.focus(), CONST.ANIMATED_TRANSITION);
	} else {
	textInputRef.current.focus();
	}
	}
	return () => {
	if (!focusTimeoutRef.current) {
	return;
	}
	clearTimeout(focusTimeoutRef.current);
	};
	}, [shouldDelayFocus, shouldShowTextInput]);

We don't have any logic to refocus on the search input when the component/page refocus

What changes do you think we should make in order to solve the problem?

In BaseSelectionList, we need to hook into Navigation focus (by using either useIsFocused hook or withNavigationFocus HOC), then we will add it into dependency list of above useEffect (and checking if it's true in the above useEffect as well). It will help to trigger refocus on the search input when the component is focus/refocus.

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