How to highlight a view for a specific duration in React Native ScrollView

I have developed a Chat App using React Native, I have also implemented a feature which is present in WhatsApp & other Chat Apps -> if a message is a reply of a particular message, if we tap on it, it will scroll us to that specific message just like shown in the image below. Now, I have managed to develop the scrolling feature when a reply message is pressed, but unable to highlight that view of message for a particular duration like WhatsApp does. How can I implement the same?

Repied message highlight image

MessageItem.js

const MessageItem = ({
  message,
  scrollViewRef,
  replyMessageIndex,
}) => {

  return (
    <TouchableOpacity>
      {message.reply && (
        <TouchableOpacity
          style={styles.replyContainer}
          onPress={() => {
            scrollViewRef.current.scrollTo({
              animated: true,
              y: replyMessageIndex,
            });
          }}>
          <Text>{message.reply.text}</Text>
          )}
        </TouchableOpacity>
      )}
      <Text>{message.text}</Text>
    </TouchableOpacity>
  );
};

ChatScreen.js -> ScrollView didn’t include all the code because it was a large file.

<ScrollView
            ref={scrollViewRef}
            showsVerticalScrollIndicator={false}>
            {messages.length > 0 ? (
              messages.map((message, index) => {
                // finding the replied message if it is present. No problem here, working fine.
                let replyMessageIndex = null;
                if (message.reply) {
                  replyMessageIndex = messages.findIndex(
                    msg => msg._id === message.reply._id,
                  );
                }
                return (
                  <MessageItem
                    key={index}
                    message={message}
                    scrollViewRef={scrollViewRef}
                    replyMessageIndex={replyMessageIndex}
                  />
                );
              })
            ) : (
              <View style={styles.noChatContainer}>
                <Text style={styles.noChatText}>Start Chatting</Text>
              </View>
            )}
          </ScrollView>

So, as I said earlier, how can I actually highlight the scrolled message for, like a second so that user gets to know that “oh it was a reply to this message”. I am able to scroll to that message but not animate/highlight it.

Any solution would be really appreciated!