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Supersedes #27769 (closed pending native captures). This PR adds those captures, plus fixes for the two CodeRabbit findings on #27769.

Problem

In the mobile app, a video written in image syntax shows no player when it shares a paragraph with text:

Here is the run
![t](C:/path/x.mp4)

With an empty line above and below, the same file plays. Web plays the video in both positions.

markdownWithFileEmbeds passes standalone = true only for the sole child of a top-level paragraph, and markdownFileEmbedLabel returns a filename for a non-standalone video or audio file. The embed is rewritten to [x.mp4](<C:/path/x.mp4>), so renderImage never receives it.

Change

markdownWithFileEmbeds now moves a video or audio embed that shares a paragraph with text into its own paragraph, so it reaches the native media slot. Paragraph breaks keep the > markers of surrounding quotes. An embed alone in a block quote or admonition also counts as standalone, because the library has a slot there.

The filename link stays in these cases:

  • List items and task items. react-native-enriched-markdown makes no slot inside a list (cpp/parser/BlockSlots.cpp:129), and moving the video out would mean rewriting list structure.
  • Headings, table cells and embeds inside links.
  • A paragraph containing ||.
  • A lazy block quote line (> text then an unmarked video line), which would otherwise fall out of the quote.
  • A paragraph line indented four spaces or a tab, which would otherwise become an indented code block.
  • A backslash hard break right before or after the embed, which would otherwise show as a literal backslash.
  • Text before or after the embed that would stop being a paragraph once split, such as ![v](x.mp4) - demo or intro then --- ![v](x.mp4).

Images, PDFs, other files and code are unchanged.

Scope and approval

There is no prior issue or maintainer discussion. This is a focused fix for an obvious bug: the same file plays or does not play depending on an empty line. It solves that one problem and touches only apps/mobile/src/lib/.

Related: #24735 (open) splits images into their own paragraph, but it runs after markdownWithFileEmbeds, when the video is already a link, so it does not cover this case. If it merges first, this split can be reduced to use markdownWithBlockImages.

Verification

Run on an AYN Thor (Android 13) with one debug dev client, one thread and one message. The captures predate the code-indent and hard-break guards, which only keep the link in those inputs and do not touch the captured cases. Before is main's markdownDocument.ts, after is this branch, swapped through Metro. The message came from the repo's replay provider, against a throwaway dev server.

Case Before After
Text on the line above Link Player, plays
Text before and after on one line Link Player
Video alone (control) Player Player
Quote: text, then video Link Player inside the quote, plays
video - demo (control) Link Link
List item Link Link
Text, then png (control) Small PNG pill Small PNG pill

Before, cases 1 and 2:

Before: text followed by clip.mp4 links

After, case 1:

After: text followed by a video player

Before, quote, trailing text and list:

Before: quote, trailing text and list as links

After, quote, playing inline:

After: video playing inside the quote

After, trailing text and list:

After: trailing text and list still links

Recording of both videos playing, ending on the link controls: after-playback.mp4

Tests: 17 cases in markdownHtml.test.ts fail without the fix and pass with it (8 for the split, 9 for the lazy quote, setext, code-indent and hard-break guards). Mobile markdown test files, typecheck, lint and vp run check:changed pass. The tests and typecheck also pass when rebased onto main at 15fe283272; this branch itself is based on 6fc9144a60, because later upstream commits change workflow files that my token cannot push to the fork. No later commit changed markdownDocument.ts, markdownHtml.test.ts, markdownMedia.ts or EnrichedMarkdownText.tsx.

Not checked:

  • iOS. Nothing here ran on an iOS device or simulator.
  • Windows paths on a device. The capture used a Linux file path; C:/ paths are covered only by tests.
  • Tapping the case 5 and 6 links, and fullscreen.
  • No screenshot shows the text-before-and-after case with the fix in one frame. Its result above was read from the device.

Implemented with Claude Sonnet 5.5, reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5, in Claude Code (via T3 Code).

A video or audio embed sharing a paragraph with text now moves into its own paragraph, so it reaches the native media slot. List items keep the filename link because the markdown library has no slot there.

Implemented with Claude Sonnet 5.5, reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5, in Claude Code (via T3 Code).
A lazy block quote line would fall out of the quote, and text before or after the embed could turn into a setext heading or other block. Those embeds now keep the filename link.

Implemented with Claude Sonnet 5.5, reviewed by Claude Opus 5.5, in Claude Code (via T3 Code).
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const lineStart = markdown.lastIndexOf("\n", start - 1) + 1;
breaks.push(
/^[ \t>]*$/.test(markdown.slice(lineStart, start))
? { start: lineStart, end: lineStart, content: `${blank}\n` }

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🟠 High lib/markdownDocument.ts:504

When an image starts on a continuation line indented four spaces, this insertion adds a blank line before the still-indented embed, so CommonMark parses it as an indented code block. The media syntax is rendered as literal text instead of a player or clickable filename; the same occurs inside block quotes. Normalize the embed line's indentation to the paragraph or quote prefix, or skip this split so the link fallback is used.

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When an image starts on a continuation line indented four spaces, this insertion adds a blank line before the still-indented embed, so CommonMark parses it as an indented code block. The media syntax is rendered as literal text instead of a player or clickable filename; the same occurs inside block quotes. Normalize the embed line's indentation to the paragraph or quote prefix, or skip this split so the link fallback is used.

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Macroscope's review found this PR requires human approval — Eligible mobile video and audio embeds now automatically render as players instead of filename links, including inside quotes. A human must accept this default presentation change; the reported indentation regression remains separately blocking.

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A paragraph line indented four spaces or a tab turns into an indented code block once a blank line comes before it, so the embed would show as literal text.

Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (via T3 Code).
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The mobile Markdown transformation separates eligible video and audio embeds from paragraph text for native media slots. It supports root and block-quote paragraphs. Other nested contexts retain filename-link output. Tests cover supported placements, excluded contexts, and unchanged image and code behavior.

Changes: Markdown media embeds

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Paragraph splitting rules
apps/mobile/src/lib/markdownDocument.ts
The transformation checks source positions, quote depth, indentation, and parsed paragraph structure before splitting an eligible embed into its own paragraph.
Media slot integration and coverage
apps/mobile/src/lib/markdownDocument.ts, apps/mobile/src/lib/markdownHtml.test.ts
Traversal attempts paragraph splitting for eligible embeds and retains link output when splitting is unavailable. Tests cover supported placements, excluded contexts, and unchanged image and code behavior.

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Change: Bug fix

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Suggested labels: bugfix, 📱 Native Change

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Review comments at @apps/mobile/src/lib/markdownDocument.ts:
- Around line 503-505: Update the media-splitting branch in the markdown
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become an indented code block. Reject the split in this case, or remove the
indentation when safe, while preserving existing behavior for other lines.
- Around line 509-513: Update the paragraph-break handling around
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filename link rather than moving to the next paragraph. Include the marker in
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A paragraph break next to the embed would leave the hard break as a literal backslash.

Implemented with Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code (via T3 Code).

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