Display Animated GIF

Question

I want to display animated GIF images in my aplication. As I found out the hard way Android doesn\'t support animated GIF natively.

However it can display animations

Answer 1

Glide 4.6

1. To Load gif

GlideApp.with(context)
            .load(R.raw.gif) // or url
            .into(imageview);

2. To get the file object

GlideApp.with(context)
                .asGif()
                .load(R.raw.gif) //or url
                .into(new SimpleTarget() {
                    @Override
                    public void onResourceReady(@NonNull GifDrawable resource, @Nullable Transition transition) {

                        resource.start();
                      //resource.setLoopCount(1);
                        imageView.setImageDrawable(resource);
                    }
                });