refactor: render empty room background when RoomView has no route identity

[diegolmello]

Proposed changes

On tablet (Master-Detail) the detail pane mounts RoomView before any Room is selected: on cold start, and again after leaving or hiding a Room resets the stack. develop shows the empty-room astronaut background there. The hooks branch showed "Oops, Room not found" with a Back button that has nothing to pop.

RoomView now renders the same astronaut background as develop when the route carries no Room id or type, with the empty header-left spacer useHeader already installs and no composer. RoomRouteInvalid is deleted. parseRoomRoute drops its valid/invalid status union and returns the screen input with an optional Room id; store, observer and header hook already accepted an undefined id. RoomGate folds into RoomView, since the only reason for a separate component was the non-optional id it took. The astronaut ImageBackground moves into a shared RoomBackground used by both the message list's EmptyRoom and the empty route.

The ready gate is untouched. It guarantees init() runs against the persisted Subscription so message loading takes the Subscribed path and the read marker advances.

Issue(s)

Follow-up to #7482, implemented from its head a2f635f4bb.

How to test or reproduce

• pnpm format-lint
• TZ=UTC pnpm test app/views/RoomView

Passing on this branch: 47 suites, 516 tests. TypeScript clean.

RoomGate.test.tsx is renamed to RoomView.test.tsx. Its two empty-route cases now assert the astronaut background renders and that no room screen, composer or Back button exists. On a tablet: cold start, and leave a Room, both land on the astronaut pane.

Types of changes

• Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• Improvement (non-breaking change which improves a current function)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Documentation update (if none of the other choices apply)

Checklist

• Lint and unit tests pass locally with my changes
• I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my feature works (if applicable)

Further comments

The store is seeded with an empty-string id and type in the empty pane, so init() is a no-op there. Deep links and notifications always carry a Room id, so the empty route has no phone producer.

Not measured: whether the asynchronous Subscription lookup before init() is perceptible on a list tap compared to develop. That is a separate trace, not part of this PR.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Improvements
  • Updated the room view’s empty state with a full-screen background that adapts to the selected theme.
  • Rooms with missing or incomplete route details now display the empty-room background instead of an error message, warning icon, or Back button.
  • Simplified room route handling to provide a consistent view when room information is unavailable.

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Walkthrough

RoomView now parses incomplete routes as screen input and renders a theme-aware empty background when the room ID or type is missing. The invalid-route screen and wrapper are removed. Tests validate the new empty-state behavior.

Changes

Room empty-state routing

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Route parsing contract app/views/RoomView/definitions.ts, app/views/RoomView/services/parseRoomRoute.ts	IRoomScreenInput permits missing rid and t. parseRoomRoute returns the input directly and defaults missing values to empty strings.
Empty-state rendering and validation app/views/RoomView/index.tsx, app/views/RoomView/components/RoomBackground.tsx, app/views/RoomView/List/components/EmptyRoom.tsx, app/views/RoomView/components/RoomRouteInvalid.tsx, app/views/RoomView/__tests__/RoomView.test.tsx	RoomView and EmptyRoom render the theme-aware RoomBackground. The invalid-route component and wrapper are removed. Tests validate the empty background and the absence of room content and navigation controls.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

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

Change: Refactor

Suggested labels: type: chore

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to 4cc2a

Incomplete room routes now show the shared theme-aware empty background while complete routes retain normal room rendering; reported tests and checks are clean.

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app/views/RoomView/components/RoomBackground.tsx (1)

13-13: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick win

Add an explicit return type to RoomBackground.

The TypeScript guideline requires explicit function return types.

Proposed fix

+import { type ReactElement } from 'react';
 import { ImageBackground, StyleSheet } from 'react-native';

-const RoomBackground = () => {
+const RoomBackground = (): ReactElement => {

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• app/views/RoomView/components/RoomBackground.tsx
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• app/views/RoomView/__tests__/RoomView.test.tsx
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• app/views/RoomView/components/RoomBackground.tsx
• app/views/RoomView/definitions.ts
• app/views/RoomView/services/parseRoomRoute.ts
• app/views/RoomView/index.tsx
• app/views/RoomView/__tests__/RoomView.test.tsx
• app/views/RoomView/List/components/EmptyRoom.tsx

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app/views/RoomView/index.tsx (1)

23-23: 🩺 Stability & Availability

No change required. observeRoom returns without subscribing when rid is undefined. createRoomStore.init returns skipped without requesting data. useE2EEStatus only reads store state. useHeader sets an empty-state header placeholder and does not configure room controls.