[$250] Android-Room-After creating room, entering @ not showing contact suggestions

[m-natarajan]

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Version Number: 1.4.77-0
Reproducible in staging?: y
Reproducible in production?: n
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Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: Applause internal team
Slack conversation:

Action Performed:

1. Launch app
2. Tap fab -- start chat
3. Create a new room
4. Enter @ and wait few seconds
5. Navigate to LHN
6. Navigate to room again
7. Keep cursor after @

Expected Result:

After creating room, entering @ must show contact suggestions

Actual Result:

After creating room, entering @ not showing contact suggestions but shown on revisit.

Workaround:

unknown

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

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Issue Owner

Current Issue Owner: @jliexpensify

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @bondydaa (DeployBlockerCash), see https://stackoverflowteams.com/c/expensify/questions/9980/ for more details.

[melvin-bot]

Triggered auto assignment to @jliexpensify (Bug), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/14418 for more details. Please add this bug to a GH project, as outlined in the SO.

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[m-natarajan]

@bondydaa FYI I haven't added the External label as I wasn't 100% sure about this issue. Please take a look and add the label if you agree it's a bug and can be handled by external contributors

[m-natarajan]

We think that this bug might be related to #vip-vsb