How to make animated GIFs work from Android WebView

Question

Animated GIF images rendered by Android\'s WebView do not seem to animate. Has anyone figured out how to make them work? I\'m testing on an N1 with 2.1-u1. None of the web sett

Answer 1

Not supported YET. Read more about this here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3422

For large memory phones like Droid and Nexus One, the two-line change has been made in Froyo (unreleased) to enable animated GIFs. For small memory phones, the change is not trivial and did not make it into this future release.