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ElementX/Sources/Screens/HomeScreen/HomeScreenViewModel.swift

@@ -177,9 +177,6 @@ class HomeScreenViewModel: HomeScreenViewModelType, HomeScreenViewModelProtocol
         
         updateRooms()
         
-        // The subscription above only delivers the current state through an async main queue
-        // hop, which can end up queued behind the first render and leave the skeletons up on a
-        // warm launch, where the provider has already published the cached rooms.
         if let roomSummaryProvider {
             updateRoomListMode(with: roomSummaryProvider.statePublisher.value,
                                hasRooms: !roomSummaryProvider.roomListPublisher.value.isEmpty)
@@ -337,19 +334,16 @@ class HomeScreenViewModel: HomeScreenViewModelType, HomeScreenViewModelProtocol
     }
     
     private func updateRoomListMode(with roomSummaryProviderState: RoomSummaryProviderState, hasRooms: Bool) {
-        let isLoadingData = !roomSummaryProviderState.isLoaded
-        let hasNoRooms = roomSummaryProviderState.isLoaded && roomSummaryProviderState.totalNumberOfRooms == 0
-        // Only the initial transition needs holding back until the rooms have published, an
-        // empty list later on is a filter or a search result.
-        let isInitialLoad = state.roomListMode == .skeletons
-        
-        var roomListMode = state.roomListMode
-        if isLoadingData {
-            roomListMode = .skeletons
-        } else if hasNoRooms {
-            roomListMode = .empty
-        } else if hasRooms || !isInitialLoad {
-            roomListMode = .rooms
+        let roomListMode: HomeScreenRoomListMode = if !roomSummaryProviderState.isLoaded {
+            .skeletons // Still loading.
+        } else if roomSummaryProviderState.totalNumberOfRooms == 0 {
+            .empty // Loaded, there are no rooms at all.
+        } else if hasRooms {
+            .rooms // Loaded and the summaries have published.
+        } else if state.roomListMode == .skeletons {
+            .skeletons // Loaded but nothing published yet, flipping to .rooms would flash an empty list.
+        } else {
+            .rooms
         }
         
         guard roomListMode != state.roomListMode else {

ElementX/Sources/Screens/HomeScreen/View/HomeScreenContent.swift

@@ -68,9 +68,6 @@ struct HomeScreenContent: View {
                 scrollViewAdapter.scrollView = scrollView
             }
             .onReceive(scrollViewAdapter.didScroll) { _ in
-                // Live, undelayed updates while scrolling: pagination needs to see the
-                // range early enough to grow the list before the user reaches the bottom,
-                // and the scroll geometry is valid mid-scroll.
                 sendVisibleRange()
             }
             .onReceive(scrollViewAdapter.isScrolling) { _ in

Tools/Sources/Commands/CI/RunTests.swift

@@ -151,8 +151,7 @@ struct RunTests: AsyncParsableCommand {
             // -test-iterations is the total number of attempts (initial + retries)
             command += " -retry-tests-on-failure"
             command += " -test-iterations \(retries + 1)"
-            // Repetitions happen in the same process by default, so a runner that exits (e.g. code 75
-            // after a failed app launch) takes its own retries down with it and the test gets skipped.
+            // Ensure retries still happen when a runner exits early.
             command += " -test-repetition-relaunch-enabled YES"
         }
         

UnitTests/Sources/HomeScreenViewModelTests.swift

@@ -399,9 +399,9 @@ final class HomeScreenViewModelTests {
         #expect(context.viewState.roomListMode == .skeletons)
         
         // The provider reports loaded before the first summaries have been published.
+        let failure = deferFailure(context.$viewState, timeout: .seconds(1)) { $0.roomListMode != .skeletons }
         stateSubject.send(.loaded(totalNumberOfRooms: 8))
-        try await Task.sleep(for: .milliseconds(100))
-        #expect(context.viewState.roomListMode == .skeletons)
+        try await failure.fulfill()
         
         let deferred = deferFulfillment(context.$viewState) { $0.roomListMode == .rooms }
         roomListSubject.send(.mockRooms)
@@ -418,10 +418,10 @@ final class HomeScreenViewModelTests {
         try await deferred.fulfill()
         
         // A filter or a search without matches empties the list, the mode must not regress.
+        let failure = deferFailure(context.$viewState, timeout: .seconds(1)) { $0.roomListMode != .rooms }
         roomListSubject.send([])
         stateSubject.send(.loaded(totalNumberOfRooms: 9))
-        try await Task.sleep(for: .milliseconds(100))
-        #expect(context.viewState.roomListMode == .rooms)
+        try await failure.fulfill()
     }
     
     private func setupViewModelWithManualProvider() -> (CurrentValueSubject<[RoomSummary], Never>, CurrentValueSubject<RoomSummaryProviderState, Never>) {

UnitTests/Sources/RoomDetailsScreenViewModelTests.swift

@@ -271,8 +271,6 @@ struct RoomDetailsScreenViewModelTests {
         #expect(context.viewState.dmRecipientInfo?.member == RoomMemberDetails(withProxy: recipient))
         
         #expect(!context.viewState.isProcessingIgnoreRequest)
-        // Waiting on the transient isProcessingIgnoreRequest transition races the view model's task,
-        // which can complete before the observation starts. Wait on the alert instead.
         let deferredAlert = deferFulfillment(context.observe(\.alertInfo)) { $0 != nil }
         
         context.send(viewAction: .unignoreConfirmed)