PostHog / PostHog/posthog-android

Support survey cancellation events

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enhancement Survey
Dominant language
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 posthog-android SDK does not support cancellation events for surveys.

Current State

The browser SDK supports cancelEvents in survey conditions, which allows surveys to be dismissed when specific events occur. This is not implemented in posthog-android.

Expected Behavior

When a survey has conditions.cancelEvents.values configured with events, the SDK should:

  1. Listen for those events being captured
  2. Dismiss any active survey when a matching cancellation event is triggered

Reference Implementation

See posthog-js browser: packages/browser/src/extensions/surveys.ts
For mobile-specific patterns, see posthog-react-native: packages/react-native/src/surveys/getActiveMatchingSurveys.ts

Tracking

This is tracked in the survey SDK feature parity issue: https://github.com/PostHog/posthog/issues/45658

This issue was generated by Claude using the /survey-sdk-audit skill.

Contributor guide

Open the contributing guide

First steps

  1. Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
  2. Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by reading the reference implementation in packages/browser/src/extensions/surveys.ts and the mobile-specific pattern in packages/react-native/src/surveys/getActiveMatchingSurveys.ts. Trace how posthog-android captures events and manages active surveys, then implement matching cancellation behavior and verify that active surveys are dismissed when configured events occur. Check the surveyVersionRequirements.ts reference if the issue is closed or deleted.

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Assessment

Tech stack
android, kotlin
Domain
mobile-dev
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
38/100

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