[Home Page] Create AnnouncementsSection Component by WojtekBoman · Pull Request #80931 · Expensify/App

WojtekBoman · 2026-01-29T18:48:42Z

Explanation of Change

Added CONST.HOME.ANNOUNCEMENTS with 3 dummy items (title, subtitle, url, publishedDate).
AnnouncementSection now displays each announcement via MenuItemWithTopDescription (subtitle on top, title below) and opens the URL on press.
Added DateIcon component in src/components/DateIcon.tsx: small square showing month abbreviation and day number; accepts a date string prop.
Extended MenuItem with a leftComponent prop; AnnouncementSection uses it to show the DateIcon on the left of each item.

Fixed Issues

$ #79981
PROPOSAL:

Tests

Verify that no errors appear in the JS console
Precondition: access to newDotHome beta

Announcements section – Verify if there are three items with date square, subtitle/title, and tap opens the right URL.

Offline tests

QA Steps

Verify that no errors appear in the JS console

Same as tests

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Android: Native

Android: mWeb Chrome

iOS: Native

iOS: mWeb Safari

MacOS: Chrome / Safari

github-actions · 2026-01-29T18:49:58Z

🚧 @mountiny has triggered a test Expensify/App build. You can view the workflow run here.

ZhenjaHorbach · 2026-01-29T18:51:28Z

+                {
+                    width: variables.iconSizeExtraLarge,
+                    height: variables.iconSizeExtraLarge,


Let's move this into styles folder

codecov · 2026-01-29T18:59:10Z

Codecov Report

✅ Changes either increased or maintained existing code coverage, great job!

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src/styles/index.ts	`42.47% <ø> (ø)`
src/pages/home/ForYouSection/index.tsx	`0.00% <0.00%> (ø)`
src/components/WidgetContainer.tsx	`0.00% <0.00%> (ø)`
src/pages/home/ForYouSection/EmptyState.tsx	`0.00% <0.00%> (ø)`
src/pages/home/DiscoverSection.tsx	`0.00% <0.00%> (ø)`
src/pages/home/HomePage.tsx	`0.00% <0.00%> (ø)`
src/components/DateIcon.tsx	`0.00% <0.00%> (ø)`
src/pages/home/AnnouncementSection.tsx	`0.00% <0.00%> (ø)`
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mountiny · 2026-01-29T18:59:35Z

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ZhenjaHorbach · 2026-01-29T19:48:28Z

I think we need to add some bottom padding so that the buttons don't overlap the content

But it's a common issue for all screens

mountiny · 2026-01-29T20:24:46Z

Discussed with @dannymcclain that we will do nothing about the overlap now

grgia · 2026-01-29T20:30:23Z

Added overlap to #80873 for tracking

ZhenjaHorbach · 2026-01-29T20:31:33Z

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github-actions · 2026-01-29T20:35:07Z

🚧 @grgia has triggered a test Expensify/App build. You can view the workflow run here.

ZhenjaHorbach · 2026-01-29T20:55:52Z

Okay
Final result looks good!

github-actions · 2026-01-29T20:59:23Z

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dubielzyk-expensify · 2026-01-29T21:28:37Z

@Expensify/design I think we might wanna tweak the padding on the right here to adjust for the chevrons whitespace?

dubielzyk-expensify · 2026-01-29T21:29:16Z

The test drive card disappears when it's fully loaded:

CleanShot.2026-01-29.at.13.28.50.mp4

grgia · 2026-01-29T21:35:32Z

The test drive card disappears when it's fully loaded:

@mountiny
@WojtekBoman hmmm we need to change that check to wait until the user has watched the vid. What about we disable that check that hides it for now?

ZhenjaHorbach · 2026-01-29T22:21:54Z

The test drive card disappears when it's fully loaded:

CleanShot.2026-01-29.at.13.28.50.mp4

Actually weird that we don't have For you section on the video😅

dannymcclain · 2026-01-29T22:33:34Z

@dubielzyk-expensify Shouldn't all those chevrons be using the mini caret icon and be at 50% opacity?

dubielzyk-expensify · 2026-01-29T22:38:56Z

@dubielzyk-expensify Shouldn't all those chevrons be using the mini caret icon and be at 50% opacity?

Greeeat shout! But also, that PR isn't merged yet right? So we won't have access until then?

dannymcclain · 2026-01-29T22:39:59Z

OH! I didn't realize that haha. My bad! :oh-nothing:

mountiny

The padding changes requested from @dubielzyk-expensify are a bit complex with the hover logic et all so we are going to add them in the next pr with the beta removal

OSBotify · 2026-01-29T23:35:39Z

✋ This PR was not deployed to staging yet because QA is ongoing. It will be automatically deployed to staging after the next production release.

shawnborton · 2026-01-30T06:12:02Z

I think we might wanna tweak the padding on the right here to adjust for the chevrons whitespace?

Agree with that and with Danny's comment about size. See ya in the follow ups I suppose!

OSBotify · 2026-01-30T22:19:33Z

🚀 Deployed to staging by https://github.com/mountiny in version: 9.3.11-16 🚀

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🍎 iOS 🍎	success ✅

OSBotify · 2026-02-05T20:26:20Z

🚀 Deployed to production by https://github.com/Julesssss in version: 9.3.12-1 🚀

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[Home Page][Follow up] Home page styling fixes #80873

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[Home Page] Remove Beta Gate for Release 1 #80965

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[No QA] fix: improve CLEAN-REACT-PATTERNS-* rules detection #82443

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