iOS - No space between "New" and "Expensify" for the app name

[isagoico]

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Issue is failing #4408 for iOS.

Action Performed:

1. Download latest build in iOS
2. Check the app name

Expected Result:

App name should be "New Expensify"

Actual Result:

App name is "NewExpensify"

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

• iOS

Version Number: 1.0.86-2

Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856

Notes/Photos/Videos:

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:

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[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @sketchydroide (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

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[parasharrajat]

Not sure why this is the case. Name is correctly update to this

App/ios/NewExpensify.xcodeproj/project.pbxproj

Line 860 in 2b57f0f

PRODUCT_NAME = "New Expensify";

[parasharrajat]

@Jag96 Could you please investigate it?

[luacmartins]

@isagoico what device is being used for testing? It seems that iOS might be shrinking characters width based on screen size. Here's an example of the app name in iPhone 8 (top) vs iPhone 12 Pro Max (bottom):

[isagoico]

Oh interesting 🤔 I was able to reproduce on a iPhone 6S which has a smaller screen too.

[luacmartins]

I believe iPhone 6S has an even smaller screen than an iPhone 8 and thus why it looks like the space is not there. Not really sure what the fix is here.

[parasharrajat]

I got a solution of some kind https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46337691/bundle-display-name-missing-space-characters.
we can use the non-breaking space   char and thus IOS can't shrink it.

[Julesssss]

If this is the default OS behavior then I don't think we should override it. If we did the OS might decide to remove characters elsewhere which could be even worse (removing from the end New Expensif)

I vote that we do nothing. Even if we do decide to, this shouldn't block the release, so I'm removing the label.

[Julesssss]

I wish Android did this instead of truncating the end of the String 😞

[parasharrajat]

I think it won't be truncated @Julesssss as the character limit is 30 for the App name.

[Julesssss]

It's good to know that we won't see truncation, but I still don't think we need to add a workaround to the default OS behavior. If the user has three apps in their launcher with the same length/word count it would be odd to have different spacing applied.

[sketchydroide]

I agree with Jules on this, I think there is a soace there, it just that Apple made the spacing between letters smaller, you can really see that on the example @luacmartins gives. Not sure if this is actually a bug

[parasharrajat]

We are good to close this.