Add features for forwarding and unsending messages in Linphone

Components

Linphone is an open source android app which is used for communication purposes through messaging and audio/video calling.

Proposal

When you're in a chat you see a lot of options available in there but there are important features nowadays like forwarding and unsending a message. In the image below you can see some options when you long press on your message.

Here you can see that you can only delete the message and copy it. I would like to have the options to forward the message to other contacts and also the unsend message option here.

Mockups / Examples

In the image below I've shown how this will look like once implemented. I've placed both the options here with the other two options available so that they're easily accessible.

Benefits

The benefits of these features will be:

• By having a forward option available you can send a message to many contacts by selecting them at a time and thus saving your time which is wasted when you even copy it. Because you have to go to chats one by one which can be hectic. Having a forward option will make this easy for the user.
• The feature of having unsending a message is very useful. You can delete messages from the user's chat when you unintentionally send a message that was supposed to be sent to some other user. Or delete the messages from their chat as well when you want to send them messages temporarily.
  I think these are important features nowadays and should be implemented in Linphone as well.
  Thanks.

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