feat(surveys): add optional intro screen before the first question

[jakesciotto]

💡 Motivation and Context

Surveys can show a confirmation ("thank you") screen after the last question, but there is no equivalent screen before the first one.

This is the posthog-android part of the cross-SDK intro screen rollout tracked in PostHog/posthog#74064. The web/RN renderer shipped in PostHog/posthog-js#4436; this PR brings the Android model layer and the Compose UI module to parity.

What it does:

• New SurveyAppearance fields (appended last so existing positional copy()/componentN() usages keep their meaning): displayIntroScreen, introScreenHeader, introScreenDescription, introScreenDescriptionContentType, introScreenButtonText. Mapped onto PostHogDisplaySurveyAppearance for custom delegates.
• New IntroScreen composable in posthog-android-surveys-compose, the leading mirror of ConfirmationScreen, shown by SurveySheet before the first question when displayIntroScreen is on. The description follows the module's existing TEXT-only rendering rule (HTML stays a known gap).
• Advancing past the intro flips local sheet state only: no onSubmit call, no response recorded, no survey event. The X button keeps dismissing the whole survey with the normal survey dismissed event, and the confirmation branch still wins for completed surveys.
• Intro copy is translatable (introScreenHeader / introScreenDescription / introScreenButtonText), wired through SurveyTranslation, the translation applier's change gate, and the display mapping.
• For custom (non-Compose) delegates, reading the new fields off survey.appearance is all that's needed; no delegate interface changes.

💚 How did you test it?

Unit tests added/extended:

• SurveyAppearanceMappingTest: intro fields map onto the display appearance; missing fields default to disabled.
• SurveyTranslationsTest: JSON fixture now carries intro fields; translated header/button apply with untranslated description falling back, and the untranslated path renders originals.

Written on Linux without a JVM/Android SDK, so Gradle did not run locally — please rely on CI (make compile). ⚠️ posthog/api/posthog.api was updated by hand following the binary-compatibility-validator format; if apiCheck disagrees, make api will produce the canonical dump.

📝 Checklist

• I reviewed the submitted code.
• I added tests to verify the changes.
• I updated the docs if needed.
• No breaking change or entry added to the changelog.

If releasing new changes

• Ran pnpm changeset to generate a changeset file (.changeset/survey-intro-screen.md, minor for posthog + posthog-android-surveys-compose)

🤖 Agent context

Autonomy: Human-driven (agent-assisted)

• Authored with PostHog Code (Claude) as part of the cross-SDK rollout requested in review of feat(surveys): add optional intro screen shown before the first question posthog-js#4436; design per Feature request: Survey intro/start screen (shown before the first question) posthog#74064.
• Key decisions: intro state is a rememberSaveable flag inside SurveySheet (survives configuration changes, never touches onSubmit/onClose), and the new data-class fields were deliberately appended after the existing ones with defaults to avoid shifting componentN/copy positions.

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Created with PostHog Code

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Prompt To Fix All With AI

### Issue 1
posthog/src/main/java/com/posthog/internal/surveys/SurveyTranslationApplier.kt:80-90
**Disabled intro sets survey language**

When `displayIntroScreen` is false or omitted but its translation contains different intro copy, these checks still set `matchedKey`, causing survey events to include `$survey_language` even though none of that translated content was displayed.

```suggestion
    if (appearance?.displayIntroScreen == true) {
        if (translation.introScreenHeader != null && translation.introScreenHeader != appearance.introScreenHeader) return true
        if (translation.introScreenDescription != null &&
            translation.introScreenDescription != appearance.introScreenDescription
        ) {
            return true
        }
        if (translation.introScreenButtonText != null &&
            translation.introScreenButtonText != appearance.introScreenButtonText
        ) {
            return true
        }
    }
```

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posthog-android Compliance Report

Date: 2026-08-19 21:26:31 UTC
Duration: 118505ms

✅ All Tests Passed!

46/46 tests passed

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[marandaneto]

moving to draft until we hear from @PostHog/team-surveys

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