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New RNOrientationDirector.listenForDisplayChanges(({ width, height }) => …) (onDisplayChanged event, iOS + Android): notifies when the app moves to a different physical display (e.g. fold / unfold), with the new display size in points (iOS) / dp (Android), in the orientation it is displayed. Rotations and window resizes (split view / multi-window) don't trigger it.

It covers cases where no orientation changes at all: e.g. a portrait-only app, device held sideways while folded, then unfolded → interface and device orientation are the same before and after, only the display changes.

  • iOS: emitted when the window scene moves to another screen (from the effectiveGeometry listener introduced in fix(ios): update orientations on fold / unfold (iPhone Duo) #116).
  • Android: DisplayChangesListener (DisplayManager.DisplayListener), emitted when the physical size of the display changes (compared regardless of orientation); registered on host resume / unregistered on pause, so a change that happened in background is emitted on resume.
  • Example: last display change shown in the Explore screen.
  • README: listenForDisplayChanges documented.

Testing

Device Result
iPhone Duo simulator — iOS 27.1 onDisplayChanged on unfold (669x951) and fold (466x678)
Pixel 9 Pro Fold emulator — Android 16 onDisplayChanged on fold (443x994 dp) and unfold (852x883 dp), not on rotations

Notes

  • On Pixel Fold, on fold the "swipe up to continue" lock screen is shown: the display event is delivered when the app resumes.

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  • New Features
    • Added notifications with the current display width and height when the app moves between physical displays, such as when folding or unfolding a device.
    • Added the useDisplay hook to read display dimensions and update them when the app moves to another display.
    • Updated the example app to show the current display dimensions.
  • Documentation
    • Added usage guidance for display-change notifications and display dimensions, including considerations for iOS foldable devices.

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Walkthrough

The change adds native display-change detection on Android and iOS and exposes display dimensions through a JavaScript listener and useDisplay hook. The example displays the dimensions. The README documents the APIs and foldable-device guidance.

Changes

Display change notifications

Layer / File(s) Summary
Display-change event contracts
src/types/DisplayChangedEvent.interface.ts, src/NativeOrientationDirector.ts, src/EventEmitter.ts, android/src/main/java/com/orientationdirector/implementation/EventManagerDelegate.kt, android/src/main/java/com/orientationdirector/implementation/EventManager.kt, android/src/main/java/com/orientationdirector/OrientationDirectorModule.kt, ios/implementation/EventManager.swift, ios/OrientationDirector.mm
The TypeScript and native event layers define and forward display-change events with width and height values.
Native display detection
android/src/main/java/com/orientationdirector/implementation/DisplayChangesListener.kt, android/src/main/java/com/orientationdirector/implementation/OrientationDirectorModuleImpl.kt, ios/implementation/OrientationDirectorImpl.swift, ios/implementation/SceneGeometryListener.swift
Android tracks display dimensions and reports changed sizes through its event manager. iOS checks the screen during scene geometry changes and emits bounds when the screen instance changes.
Public listener, hook, and documentation
src/RNOrientationDirector.ts, src/hooks/useDisplay.hook.ts, src/index.tsx, example/src/screens/Explore.tsx, README.md
The TypeScript API exposes the display-change listener and useDisplay hook. The example displays dimensions, and the README documents the APIs and foldable-device guidance.

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Change: Feature

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sequenceDiagram
  participant DisplayChangesListener
  participant OrientationDirectorModuleImpl
  participant EventManager
  participant OrientationDirectorModule
  DisplayChangesListener->>OrientationDirectorModuleImpl: changed display dimensions
  OrientationDirectorModuleImpl->>EventManager: sendDisplayDidChange
  EventManager->>OrientationDirectorModule: sendOnDisplayChanged
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sequenceDiagram
  participant OrientationDirectorImpl
  participant EventManager
  participant OrientationDirector
  OrientationDirectorImpl->>EventManager: changed screen bounds
  EventManager->>OrientationDirector: display-change parameters
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Apps with restricted window areas may receive incorrect display dimensions or an unexpected change event. This is a bounded risk to account for before merging.

Security Architecture Review

Security architecture risk: 🔵 Low · up to 4141d

The new flow reports display dimensions within the host app rather than granting additional authority. No introduced security issue was established in the examined paths. Remaining uncertainty concerns platform-specific detection, lifecycle edge cases, and compatibility between native and JavaScript versions.

Retained concerns
No architecture-level concerns identified.

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Security Blast Radius

  • inferred — The demonstrated exposure is local to display metadata and event delivery in the host app. Android samples the current activity even when a DisplayManager callback names another display; iOS samples the observed scene's screen. No cross-tenant, remote-service, or privileged-write path was established in this flow.

Trust Boundaries and Controls

  • observed — Android retains the package-specific configuration receiver, with RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED on API 33 and later and legacy registration below that level. The newly added callback does not consume intent-supplied dimensions: it samples current system metrics and suppresses unchanged measurements. The receiver registration policy itself is unchanged from the comparison base.

Resilience and Maintainability Implications

  • observed — Both producers update their baseline before emission. The iOS event manager returns when its weak delegate is absent, and both native bridges catch emitter exceptions. Thus unavailable consumers can lose a notification without a replay mechanism; the examined path is observational telemetry rather than a transactional state change.
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Notify when the app moves to a different physical display, e.g. when a
foldable device is folded or unfolded, with the new display size in
points (iOS) / dp (Android). Rotations and window resizes don't trigger it.

- iOS: emitted when the window scene moves to another screen (iOS 16+)
- Android: emitted when the physical size of the display changes,
  through DisplayManager.DisplayListener
- Example: show the last display change in the Explore screen

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- android: resync the display on configuration changes to detect moves between existing displays
- ios: keep observing the first window scene and ignore activations of unrelated scenes

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