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Requested by Vain · project thread

Why the change

This follows up on #2394/#2416. The chat's edge fades went almost opaque right at the composer's top edge and at the header's lower edge, so each fade read as a hard band; Grok's only reaches opaque close to the screen edge. Also, the Android header's round Back, title chip and right button touched each other. Phone QA on #2416 also found message text showing through the gesture-bar strip on a coloured dark background / 渐变过硬、顶栏三个形状贴在一起、彩色背景手势条漏字。

Refs #2394, #2416.

Special things to note

• Merge risk: the bottom mask is shared by iOS and Android since fix(mobile): draw the chat's bottom mask on iOS instead of UIKit's edge effect #2398, so iOS's bottom fade changes too. The top fade and header spacing are Android-only. The resting space below the newest message (edgeFade.bottom) is unchanged.
• Curve: the fade holds fully opaque across the safe-area strip (home indicator, status bar). From there it follows opacity = (1 − d)^1.6 out to edgeFade.reach (48) past the composer or header.
• Verification: typecheck ✅, apps/mobile vitest ✅ (971), lint ✅, CI green on ffb3e272. Android phone QA ✅ on ffb3e272 (Xiaomi, Android 16), see below. The iOS bottom fade hasn't been captured yet: the QA rig has no iPhone.

Change outline

• edgeFadeStops(height, cover, solid): opaque across solid (the safe-area inset), then one eased curve. The new tokens are edgeFade.reach, curve and samples; cover and the unused top are removed.
• Fade heights are composerHeight + edgeFade.reach and listTop + edgeFade.reach.
• Android headerTitle wrapper: marginHorizontal: space.x3.

Phone QA (Xiaomi, Android 16, ffb3e272)

Default dark	Lavender dark	Lavender light

What the screenshots show:

• The gesture strip is clean in every shot: at rest, scrolling up and under the header.
• There is faint text between + and the field, as intended.
• After theme switches, the name chip still shows the full name.

The rest of the screenshots are in .github/pr-screenshots/2425-android-chat-chrome/phone/ at commit 015a7cc0.

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📝 Walkthrough

Chat edge fades now use a sampled opacity curve with a shared reach value. The non-iOS conversation header title container adds horizontal margins. Tests and changelog entries reflect these changes.

Changes: Chat UI adjustments

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Configure and apply sampled edge fades apps/mobile/src/ui/design/tokens.ts, apps/mobile/src/ui/chat/edge-fade.ts, apps/mobile/src/ui/chat/conversation-screen.tsx, apps/mobile/test/edge-fade.test.ts, apps/mobile/test/conversation-navigation.test.tsx, apps/mobile/DESIGN.md	The fade settings now define reach, curve, and samples. edgeFadeStops generates uniformly spaced offsets with curve-based opacity. Both fades use the shared reach, and tests check the updated height and opacity behavior.
Add Android header spacing apps/mobile/src/ui/chat/conversation-screen.tsx, changes/2425-soft-chat-fades.md	The non-iOS header title container adds horizontal margins. The changelog describes the fade and header-spacing changes.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 72871

No concrete runtime, build, or contract risk was established; only device visual validation remains.

Pre-merge checks: 3 · 2

Failed checks: 2 warnings

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 0.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 2 functions across 5 files. (2 skipped: 2 …	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.
Description check		The description covers the problem, references, merge risk, verification results, Android QA evidence, change outline, and the iOS capture blocker. It does not state the CI test-plan mode, and it does…	Add the selected CI test-plan mode and identify the applicable scripts/ci-plan.mjs rule if required. Add the system-text acceptance results for both platforms, all three font sizes, both themes, native interactions, and matched screenshots.…

Passed checks: 3 passed

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the two main changes: softer mobile chat edge fades and spacing for Android header shapes.
Linked Issues check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check		Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.

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Resolution

Add the selected CI test-plan mode and identify the applicable scripts/ci-plan.mjs rule if required. Add the system-text acceptance results for both platforms, all three font sizes, both themes, native interactions, and matched screenshots. List each blocked or unrun case separately, including the missing iOS device validation and any unavailable screenshots or font-size cases.

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🧹 Nitpick comments: 1

apps/mobile/src/ui/design/tokens.ts: 1

111-113: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the unused edgeFade.top token.

edgeFade.reach controls the chat fade height, while edgeFade.bottom controls the resting space below the newest message. No mobile consumer reads edgeFade.top.

Suggested fix

 export const edgeFade = {
-  top: 24,
   bottom: 24,

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Review comment at @apps/mobile/src/ui/design/tokens.ts around lines 111 - 113:
Remove the unused edgeFade.top property from the edgeFade token definition,
leaving edgeFade.reach and edgeFade.bottom unchanged.

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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/ui/design/tokens.ts:
- Around line 111-113: Remove the unused edgeFade.top property from the edgeFade
token definition, leaving edgeFade.reach and edgeFade.bottom unchanged.

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📒 Files selected for processing: 7

• apps/mobile/DESIGN.md
• apps/mobile/src/ui/chat/conversation-screen.tsx
• apps/mobile/src/ui/chat/edge-fade.ts
• apps/mobile/src/ui/design/tokens.ts
• apps/mobile/test/conversation-navigation.test.tsx
• apps/mobile/test/edge-fade.test.ts
• changes/2425-soft-chat-fades.md

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Android phone result: PASS (Xiaomi, Android 16 / HyperOS 3, this branch at ffb3e27)

Screenshots: 2425-android-chat-chrome/phone (commit 015a7cc)

Scene	Files
At the newest message, lavender light/dark and default dark	1-latest-*
Scrolling up	2-scrolling-up-*
Content under the header	3-under-header-*
Theme switched inside the chat, chip reads "Mira" in full	4-theme-switched-dark.png, 5-theme-switched-light.png

The gesture-bar strip is clean in every shot. Faint text between + and the input is visible, as intended for the softer fade.

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iOS 27 Simulator at ffb3e27: pass. These were checked in a Bot DM on the dev client, with the Host on this branch.

• Home indicator strip: pass. Below the composer there's a solid background, with no gradient band or edge. This holds at rest and when scrolled, in light and dark, on the default and the light purple background.
• Text showing between + and the input: faint, when scrolled, as expected.
• Header buttons: pass. Back, the Xiaoce pill and the right button are separate glass pills, with clear gaps between them.

	Default	Light purple	Light purple, scrolled
Light
Dark

A side note that isn't from this PR: in dark mode on the light purple background, the gray activity lines ("posted 2 messages in #Review Room…") have low contrast.

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