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-flutter part of the cross-SDK intro screen rollout tracked in PostHog/posthog#74064. The web/RN renderer shipped in PostHog/posthog-js#4436, and the native SDK parts are in PostHog/posthog-ios#754 and PostHog/posthog-android#677.

What it does:

• New appearance fields parsed from the native payload and exposed on PostHogDisplaySurveyAppearance / resolved in SurveyAppearance: displayIntroScreen, introScreenHeader, introScreenDescription, introScreenDescriptionContentType, introScreenButtonText (button defaults to "Get started").
• New IntroMessage widget, the leading mirror of ConfirmationMessage, shown by SurveyBottomSheet before the first question when displayIntroScreen is on. The description follows the existing text-only rendering rule.
• Advancing past the intro flips local widget state only: no onResponse call, no method-channel surveyAction, so no survey event. The X button keeps closing the survey with the normal dismissed event, and the confirmation branch still wins for completed surveys.
• Both native bridges (PostHogDisplaySurvey+Dict.swift, PostHogDisplaySurveyExt.kt) forward the five new keys, since the appearance maps are hand-enumerated.

⚠️ Blocked on native SDK releases. The bridge code reads the new fields from the native display models, so this PR needs posthog-ios >= 3.70.0 (PostHog/posthog-ios#754) and a posthog-android release containing PostHog/posthog-android#677. The dependency floors are bumped to PostHog >= 3.70.0 and com.posthog:posthog-android:[3.59.0,4.0.0) — please confirm the exact Android artifact version once its release ships (the changesets cascade may produce a different number). CI stays red until both are published; the Dart-only changes are green-path.

💚 How did you test it?

Unit and widget tests added:

• surveys_test.dart: fromDict parses the five intro keys (including the int-coded content type) and defaults to disabled when absent.
• survey_bottom_sheet_test.dart (new): presents the sheet via showModalBottomSheet like SurveyService does, and asserts the intro shows before question 1, advancing fires no onResponse/onClosed callback, the off-flag skips the intro, and closing from the intro still notifies onClosed.

Written on Linux without a Flutter toolchain, so the suite was not executed locally — please rely on CI (flutter test, dart analyze, format checks).

📝 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)

🤖 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 decision: the intro is a late bool state field on _SurveyBottomSheetState initialized from the appearance; its "Get started" handler is a pure setState, deliberately not routed through onResponse/_handleClose so no method-channel call (and therefore no event) can occur on the advance path.

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posthog-flutter Compliance Report

Date: 2026-08-30 22:40:33 UTC
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[marandaneto]

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

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