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Closes #327

Description

Addresses three separate usability gaps on the OTP verification screen (VerifyOTPScreen), each identified during manual testing of the auth flow. None of these were previously flagged or fixed elsewhere in the codebase — they're small, independent issues that happened to live on the same screen, so this PR bundles them together for review efficiency while keeping the code changes cleanly separated across three commits.

Problems

  1. No way to leave the screen. VerifyOTPScreen had no back arrow (the shared AuthScreenWrapper component has no AppBar) and no in-body cancel/back button, unlike ForgotPasswordScreen and SetNewPasswordScreen, which each already implement their own equivalent button. A user who reaches this screen and changes their mind — whether mid-signup or mid-password-reset — has no in-app way out.

  2. Resend button gave no real feedback during its cooldown. After requesting a code, there's a 60-second cooldown before another can be sent, tracked by an existing _canresend flag. However, the button's onPressed was only gated on _isLoading, not _canresend — so during the cooldown, the button remained fully clickable-looking. Tapping it silently no-opped via an early return inside _resendCode(), giving the user no indication the tap did anything (or why it didn't).

  3. The 6-digit code input had no backspace-to-previous-box or paste support. Each box only auto-advanced focus forward as digits were typed. There was no way to press backspace on an empty box to jump back and correct a previous digit, and pasting a full 6-digit code (e.g. copied from an email or SMS, which is how most users actually enter OTP codes) did nothing useful — maxLength: 1 silently truncated any paste down to a single character before the input's onChanged handler ever saw the rest.

Changes Made

Commit 1 — Back button
Added a CustomButton(isOutlined: true) below the Resend row, using NavigationService().goBack() rather than a hardcoded "Back to Login" redirect. This screen is reachable from both SignupScreen and ForgotPasswordScreen, so goBack() correctly returns the user to whichever flow brought them here, rather than assuming one specific origin.

Commit 2 — Resend cooldown fix
Changed the button's onPressed condition to (_isLoading || !_canresend) ? null : _resendCode. Also caught and fixed a related issue while implementing this: the "Resend" text had a hardcoded Colors.green.shade400 style, which would have stayed fully green even with onPressed: null — Flutter's automatic disabled-button dimming doesn't override an explicitly-styled child widget. The text now switches to a dimmed onSurfaceVariant color when disabled, so the inert state is now genuinely visible, not just functionally inert.

Commit 3 — OTP backspace and paste support

  • Backspace: each of the 6 boxes is now wrapped in a KeyboardListener (using a dedicated, non-focus-stealing FocusNode per box — skipTraversal: true, canRequestFocus: false) that intercepts a backspace keydown specifically when the box is already empty. This case can't be detected via onChanged alone, since no text change actually occurs when backspacing an empty field.
  • Paste: set maxLengthEnforcement: MaxLengthEnforcement.none so a full pasted string reaches onChanged instead of being truncated to one character beforehand, and added FilteringTextInputFormatter.digitsOnly to strip any non-digit characters from both typed and pasted input (since keyboardType: TextInputType.number alone doesn't block a clipboard paste containing letters). The onChanged handler now detects a multi-character value and distributes its digits across the current and subsequent boxes, landing focus on the last box filled.
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Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Added support for pasting multi-digit OTP codes into the verification form.
    • Backspace on empty OTP fields now moves focus to and clears the previous field.
    • Added a Back button to return to the previous screen.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Resend is now disabled during loading and cooldown periods, with updated visual feedback.
    • Improved verification and code-resending behavior when leaving the screen during processing.

VerifyOTPScreen had no way to leave the screen -- no back arrow (the
shared AuthScreenWrapper has no AppBar) and no in-body cancel/back
action, unlike ForgotPasswordScreen and SetNewPasswordScreen which
each already have their own equivalent button.

Add a "Back" CustomButton (isOutlined: true) below the Resend row,
matching those two screens' existing button style. Uses
NavigationService().goBack() rather than a literal "Back to Login"
label/redirect, since this screen is reachable from both SignupScreen
and ForgotPasswordScreen -- goBack() correctly pops to whichever one
pushed it.
The Resend TextButton's onPressed was gated only by _isLoading, not
the existing _canresend cooldown flag, so it remained fully tappable
(just silently no-opping via _resendCode's early return) for the
whole 60-second cooldown -- no visible feedback that it was inert.

Gate onPressed on (_isLoading || !_canresend). Also fix the button's
disabled state actually looking disabled: the "Resend" Text had a
hardcoded green color that would have stayed fully green regardless
of onPressed being null, since an explicitly-styled child Text isn't
repainted by TextButton's automatic disabled-state dimming. Now dims
to a muted onSurfaceVariant color while disabled.
Each of the 6 OTP boxes only auto-advanced focus forward on input;
there was no way to move back to a previous box via backspace, and
pasting a full 6-digit code did nothing useful (maxLength: 1 silently
truncated a paste to its first character before onChanged ever saw
it).

Backspace: wrap each box in a KeyboardListener (using a dedicated,
non-focus-stealing FocusNode per box) that catches a backspace
keydown while the box is already empty -- onChanged never fires for
that case, since no text actually changes -- and moves focus back to
(clearing) the previous box.

Paste: set maxLengthEnforcement: MaxLengthEnforcement.none so a full
pasted string reaches onChanged instead of being truncated, add
FilteringTextInputFormatter.digitsOnly so non-digit paste content is
stripped, and distribute a multi-character value across the current
and subsequent boxes, landing focus on the last one filled.
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The OTP verification screen now supports multi-digit paste, backspace navigation, resend cooldown disabling, lifecycle guards after asynchronous calls, and an outlined Back button.

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OTP Verification UX

Layer / File(s) Summary
OTP input behavior
lib/screens/auth/verify_otp_screen.dart
OTP fields fill from pasted digits, move focus after input, and clear the previous box when backspace is pressed on an empty field.
Verification lifecycle guards
lib/screens/auth/verify_otp_screen.dart
Verification and resend flows stop after awaited calls when the widget is no longer mounted.
Resend and back actions
lib/screens/auth/verify_otp_screen.dart
The Resend button is disabled during loading or cooldown. An outlined Back button calls NavigationService().goBack().

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Low

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sequenceDiagram
  participant User
  participant TextField
  participant OTPInputHandler
  participant FocusNode
  User->>TextField: Paste OTP or press backspace
  TextField->>OTPInputHandler: Send changed value or key event
  OTPInputHandler->>TextField: Fill or clear OTP boxes
  OTPInputHandler->>FocusNode: Move focus
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Linked Issues check ✅ Passed The changes meet the coding requirements in issue #327. VerifyOTPScreen adds an outlined Back button that calls NavigationService().goBack(). The Resend button is disabled and visually dimmed duri…
Out of Scope Changes check ✅ Passed The changes are limited to lib/screens/auth/verify_otp_screen.dart. The mounted checks and input handling support the requested screen behavior. No unrelated change is established by the available P…
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Paste hops in, digits align right
Backspace steps through fields with care
Cooldown dims the resend glare
A Back button opens the way
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In `@lib/screens/auth/verify_otp_screen.dart`:
- Around line 423-429: Move empty-box backspace handling from the
KeyboardListener callback into the TextField/EditableText input path, ensuring
mobile IME deletion invokes _handleBackspaceOnEmpty when the focused
_controllers[index] is empty and preserves normal text editing. Update the
relevant OTP change/input handling around _handleOtpChanged and verify behavior
on Android and iOS.
- Around line 529-531: Update the async continuations in _handleVerification and
_resendCode to return immediately when the widget is no longer mounted after
each awaited SupabaseService call, before accessing results, context, or
setState. Also disable the Back action through NavigationService().goBack while
_isLoading is true if the verification flow must remain non-cancellable.

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The existing backspace-to-previous-box handling relied entirely on
KeyboardListener catching a raw backspace KeyEvent. That only reliably
fires for hardware keyboards -- many mobile on-screen keyboards never
emit a KeyEvent at all for backspace on an already-empty field, so the
feature silently did nothing on a lot of Android/iOS devices despite
working on web/desktop.

_handleOtpChanged now treats onChanged firing with an empty value as
the primary, cross-platform-reliable trigger to step focus back to
the previous box: that callback only ever fires from a genuine
text-change event, which every platform's text-input pipeline is
guaranteed to report, including on-screen keyboards. This covers the
common flow of backspacing digit-by-digit through a filled code.

The existing KeyboardListener/_handleBackspaceOnEmpty path is kept as
a supplementary hardware-keyboard-only path for the narrower case of
pressing backspace again on a box that was already empty -- it's
unchanged in behavior and doesn't conflict, since the two paths fire
on different triggers (a real text change vs. a raw key event with no
text change).
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The Back button remained enabled while a verify/resend request was
in flight (_isLoading == true), so a user could navigate away mid-
request; the async continuation would then call setState or touch
context after this screen was already disposed.

Add `if (!mounted) return;` immediately after both await calls in
this file (_handleVerification's verifyOTP call, _resendCode's
resendVerificationEmail call) and at the top of both their catch
blocks, before any subsequent setState/context/Navigator usage. The
existing finally blocks' own `if (mounted)` guards are untouched.

Also disable the Back button while _isLoading is true, matching how
the Resend button is already disabled during loading -- this is a
UX improvement on top of the mounted-check safety net, not a
replacement for it, so a user can no longer even attempt to navigate
away mid-request in the first place.
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🟠 Major · Declare a Flutter SDK floor for these keyboard APIs. · verify_otp_screen.dart:442

lib/screens/auth/verify_otp_screen.dart:442
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Declare a Flutter SDK floor for these keyboard APIs.

pubspec.yaml permits Dart 2.17 and declares no Flutter SDK constraint. This screen uses KeyboardListener and KeyDownEvent, which require Flutter 3.19 or later. Older permitted Flutter toolchains cannot compile this code. Set a compatible Flutter SDK floor, or use APIs supported by the intended minimum Flutter version.

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In `@lib/screens/auth/verify_otp_screen.dart` at line 442, Set the Flutter SDK
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and KeyDownEvent (Flutter 3.19 or later), while preserving the intended Dart SDK
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@g-k-s-03 From POW I meant to add a demo video of showing backspacing works, code pasting works and how back button also works.

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@dhruvi-16-me added video as you said

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