From 7caabd9ea2cb630c762e8f3e6e8119febe9a6842 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Claude <noreply@anthropic.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2026 03:27:10 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] feat: add GIF keyboard support to short new post screen

Add contentReceiver modifier to MessageField to receive images/GIFs
directly from Android's keyboard. When a GIF is selected from the
keyboard, its URI is passed to the post ViewModel's selectImage flow
for upload handling.

https://claude.ai/code/session_014FZPV258VfdeE1mcyeU7wU
---
 .../creators/messagefield/MessageField.kt     | 48 +++++++++++++++----
 .../loggedIn/home/ShortNotePostScreen.kt      |  5 ++
 2 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/note/creators/messagefield/MessageField.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/note/creators/messagefield/MessageField.kt
index 63509dca64..7b72885e4e 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/note/creators/messagefield/MessageField.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/note/creators/messagefield/MessageField.kt
@@ -20,6 +20,12 @@
  */
 package com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.note.creators.messagefield
 
+import android.net.Uri
+import androidx.compose.foundation.ExperimentalFoundationApi
+import androidx.compose.foundation.content.ReceiveContentListener
+import androidx.compose.foundation.content.TransferableContent
+import androidx.compose.foundation.content.consume
+import androidx.compose.foundation.content.contentReceiver
 import androidx.compose.foundation.layout.fillMaxWidth
 import androidx.compose.foundation.text.KeyboardOptions
 import androidx.compose.material3.LocalTextStyle
@@ -46,11 +52,13 @@ import com.vitorpamplona.amethyst.ui.theme.placeholderText
 import kotlinx.coroutines.delay
 import kotlinx.coroutines.launch
 
+@OptIn(ExperimentalFoundationApi::class)
 @Composable
 fun MessageField(
     placeholder: Int,
     viewModel: IMessageField,
     requestFocus: Boolean = true,
+    onReceiveUri: ((Uri) -> Unit)? = null,
 ) {
     val focusRequester = remember { FocusRequester() }
     val keyboardController = LocalSoftwareKeyboardController.current
@@ -64,6 +72,36 @@ fun MessageField(
         }
     }
 
+    val baseModifier =
+        Modifier
+            .fillMaxWidth()
+            .focusRequester(focusRequester)
+            .onFocusChanged {
+                if (it.isFocused) {
+                    keyboardController?.show()
+                }
+            }
+
+    val modifier =
+        if (onReceiveUri != null) {
+            baseModifier.contentReceiver(
+                object : ReceiveContentListener {
+                    override fun onReceive(content: TransferableContent): TransferableContent? =
+                        content.consume { item ->
+                            val uri = item.uri
+                            if (uri != null) {
+                                onReceiveUri(uri)
+                                true
+                            } else {
+                                false
+                            }
+                        }
+                },
+            )
+        } else {
+            baseModifier
+        }
+
     ThinPaddingTextField(
         value = viewModel.message,
         onValueChange = viewModel::updateMessage,
@@ -71,15 +109,7 @@ fun MessageField(
             KeyboardOptions.Default.copy(
                 capitalization = KeyboardCapitalization.Sentences,
             ),
-        modifier =
-            Modifier
-                .fillMaxWidth()
-                .focusRequester(focusRequester)
-                .onFocusChanged {
-                    if (it.isFocused) {
-                        keyboardController?.show()
-                    }
-                },
+        modifier = modifier,
         placeholder = {
             Text(
                 text = stringRes(placeholder),
diff --git a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/home/ShortNotePostScreen.kt b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/home/ShortNotePostScreen.kt
index b0c5890587..160c430c00 100644
--- a/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/home/ShortNotePostScreen.kt
+++ b/amethyst/src/main/java/com/vitorpamplona/amethyst/ui/screen/loggedIn/home/ShortNotePostScreen.kt
@@ -319,9 +319,14 @@ private fun NewPostScreenBody(
                                 )
                             }
                         }
+                        val context = LocalContext.current
                         MessageField(
                             R.string.what_s_on_your_mind,
                             postViewModel,
+                            onReceiveUri = { uri ->
+                                val mediaType = context.contentResolver.getType(uri)
+                                postViewModel.selectImage(persistentListOf(SelectedMedia(uri, mediaType)))
+                            },
                         )
                     }
                 }