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RTL support on Category Parent Selection - Add Caegory Screen
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Description
While creating a new category, the User can select a parent category. The dialog box shown to the user for selecting the parent category doesn't support RTL configuration.
The above dialog is accessible through the flow
- Posts List -> Post -> Post Settings -> Categories -> Add Category -> Click At Parent Category
- Posts List -> Post -> Update -> Categories -> Add Category -> Click At Parent Category
Expected behavior

Please note that the above screenshot is a reference for the correct behaviour of parent-child indentation of categories in the RTL configuration. And not the exact UI.
Actual Behaviour
| Screen on LTR | RTL layout |
|---|---|
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Steps to reproduce the behavior
- Enable RTL
- Go to any screen below
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- Posts List -> Post -> Post Settings -> Categories -> Add Category -> Click At Parent Category
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- Posts List -> Post -> Update -> Categories -> Add Category -> Click At Parent Category
- Note that the Parent-child categories doesn't have indentation
- Note that the Parent-child categories are on left side
Tested on [One plus Nord], Android [11], WPAndroid [18.5]
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
Enable RTL and reproduce the parent-category selection dialog through both listed Posts flows. Inspect the dialog reached from Add Category and compare its parent-child indentation and alignment with the expected RTL behavior; done when both flows display the hierarchy correctly in RTL.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- internationalization, mobile
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 48/100

