element-hq / element-hq/element-ios
Swipe to reply
- Dominant language
- Swift
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Description
### Your use case
#### What would you like to do?
Swipe on a message to reply to it.
#### Why would you like to do it?
Most messaging apps, including Element on Android, as well as Signal, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, Telegram and Instagram DMs, to name a few examples, let you swipe on messaging bubbles to reply.
#### How would you like to achieve it?
A left to right gesture on messages is the most common from what I see.
### Have you considered any alternatives?
The current implementation works, but it isn't as straightforward to use. It should still be available, but it is not as convenient as a simple swipe.
### Additional context
#5631 is tracking swipe actions in general but it is more about following Apple HIG
Contributor guide
Research direction
Start by reviewing the requested left-to-right gesture on message bubbles and the related swipe-actions issue #5631. Confirm how the existing reply action works and preserve it as an alternative; done means swiping a message opens a reply action consistently on iOS.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- swift
- Domain
- mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 45/100