[HOLD for payment 2022-01-27] Chat moves up a bit when new message is received - Reported by @K4tsuki

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Action Performed:

1. Open a room and scroll to earlier message (fastly)
2. Stay on specific message (to read it or something)
3. Send new message to that room
4. Notice chat view is moving around when new message is received

Expected Result:

User should stay at the same position

Actual Result:

User moves up by a size of the new message, when it is received
Not repro on Web/Desktop

Workaround:

Unknown

Platform:

Where is this issue occurring?

• iOS
• Android

Version Number: 1.1.27-0
Reproducible in staging?: Y
Reproducible in production?: Y
Logs: https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4856
Notes/Photos/Videos: Any additional supporting documentation

RPReplay_Final1641962371.MP4

Expensify/Expensify Issue URL:
Issue reported by: @K4tsuki
Slack conversation: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C01GTK53T8Q/p1641188993370400

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[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @neil-marcellini (Engineering), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/4319 for more details.

[K4tsuki]

I am fine if this issue is duplicate of #6491, because fixing that issue might be fixing this issue too.

[neil-marcellini]

I think this should weekly because it's not too critical. Here is another video showing the bug on IOS.

Chat.Movement.mp4

[MelvinBot]

Triggered auto assignment to @dylanexpensify (External), see https://stackoverflow.com/c/expensify/questions/8582 for more details.

[dylanexpensify]

On it!