[simonhamp]

When you pull a Remotes message to reply, the Reply icon came in from the far edge of the thread, a long way from the bubble you were looking at. It was also centred on the whole message row, so on a message with a name above it, or a link card or reactions below, it sat level with none of it.

Each bubble and its pin now sit in a row of their own, and Reply is laid over that row's edge, 8 points past the side the pull uncovers. It's centred on the bubble and moves with it. Text, image-only and voice note messages all get it.

Things to look at:

• Reply is absolutely positioned, not part of the row. My first try put it in the row and shrank the row's padding to match. That was fine on iOS, but Android rows don't shrink a bubble for what's beside it, so long bubbles got wider. Negative margins don't help either, because Android only offsets the drawing. With Reply laid over the row, bubbles wrap exactly where they did before on both platforms.
• On a pinned message, Reply sits past the pin rather than on top of it.
• The first commit moves mobile-ui and mobile-air to their latest main. Reply to a Remotes message by pulling it toward its edge #157 depends on the gesture area trigger from mobile-ui#197 and mobile-air#651, but merged with the lock still on mobile-ui 0.9.0. That's why swipe-to-reply didn't work and main has 8 failing tests. Packagist's dev-main for mobile-ui is stuck at 29 Oct, so composer.json reads mobile-ui straight from GitHub for now. That entry can go once Packagist catches up.

At rest nothing looks different, because Reply only shows during a pull. The recordings show the change: each one pulls one of theirs left and one of yours right, stopping just short of replying.

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Recordings: Android dark, after, Android dark, before, Android light, after, Android light, before, iOS dark, after, iOS dark, before, iOS light, after, iOS light, before

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	iOS light	iOS dark	Android light	Android dark
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• No visible change

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