Simplifying the Google Messages Compose UI.

The interface for typing and sending messages in a chat app has been on the author's mind lately given Google's addition of Magic Compose and the redesign Apple is doing in iOS 17. The Google Messages UI is fine, but the upcoming addition of Magic Compose makes it too crowded. Designing the UI for such a major default app is not an easy task by any stretch of the imagination. Apple is going very minimalist and takes too many steps to access core functionality, while Google Messages is a bit more utilitarian and suffers from being too visually crowded.