PostHog / PostHog/posthog-android
Support auto-submit on selection (skipSubmitButton)
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- Kotlin
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Description
🚨 IMPORTANT
This issue is likely user-facing in the main PostHog app, see surveyVersionRequirements.ts. If you delete or close this issue, be sure to update the version requirements list here.
Summary
The Android SDK does not support the skipSubmitButton feature for surveys. This feature allows single-choice, multiple-choice, and rating questions to automatically submit when a selection is made, without requiring the user to press a submit button.
Current State
- The
skipSubmitButtonfield is not present inRatingSurveyQuestion,SingleSurveyQuestion, orMultipleSurveyQuestionclasses inSurveyQuestion.kt - Since Android uses a delegate pattern, integrators building custom UIs cannot access this field
Expected Behavior
When a question has skipSubmitButton: true:
- For single-choice questions: submit automatically when an option is selected
- For rating questions: submit automatically when a rating is selected
- The submit button should be hidden for these questions
Implementation Notes
Since Android uses a delegate pattern without built-in UI:
- Add
skipSubmitButton: Boolean?field to relevant question classes inposthog/src/main/java/com/posthog/surveys/SurveyQuestion.kt - Update
PostHogDisplaySurveyQuestionto expose this field to integrators - Document the expected behavior for integrators building custom UIs
Reference Implementation
See posthog-js browser: packages/browser/src/extensions/surveys/components/QuestionTypes.tsx
Tracking
This is tracked in the survey SDK feature parity issue: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/45658
This issue was generated by Claude during a Surveys SDK audit.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start with posthog/src/main/java/com/posthog/surveys/SurveyQuestion.kt and trace how PostHogDisplaySurveyQuestion exposes question fields to custom UI integrators. Compare the browser behavior in packages/browser/src/extensions/surveys/components/QuestionTypes.tsx, then verify that single-choice and rating selections can expose skipSubmitButton and that integrators have enough information to hide the submit button and auto-submit.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100