element-hq / element-hq/element-android

Improve user experience for sending instant photos

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Description

### Your use case

#### What would you like to do?
Add new button in chat view with camera icon. When user clicks the button, application will instantly open the camera view. After creating the photo it will be sent to recipient.

#### Why would you like to do it?
In my opinion current implementation for creating photos/videos and sending is not very user friendly. Especially when I want to make fast photo and send it.

Currently i have to make 6 taps on screen to take photo and send it :)

#### How would you like to achieve it?
Im thinking about something similar to FB messenger implementation .
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/10244015/140303342-011027ab-cd02-4bf4-848a-cba83bfa3953.png)

The camera icon placed next to text field, it will hide when user clicks text area to input text.

The best solution would be to create custom 'photo/video taking' view, but first step can be only for photo, using standard android intent.

### Have you considered any alternatives?

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### Additional context

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