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Gif keyboard

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Description

**Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.**
It's easy enough to send gifs using the android keyboard (swiftkey in my case) though you can't reply with a gif as it will be directly sent as it's own message. v1.0.12 added a preview which I thought would have helped but didn't.

**Describe the solution you'd like**
I would like the gif to be put as an attachment in the text editor field instead of being sent directly after previewing it.

**Describe alternatives you've considered**
I'm not attached to any one way of doing this, I would just like to be able to reply with a gif (possibly with any media)

**Additional context**
Looking through the code base I see that after the previewing of the gif the data is directly sent to room. I suspect that to fulfil me feature request a step in between has to be created.
Pick gif -> preview Gif -> attach thumbnail(?) to editor -> send to room on "enter"

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