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

Create a package named “Utils” under src folder and create a class named “GifImageView”

public class GifImageView extends View {
    private InputStream mInputStream;
    private Movie mMovie;
    private int mWidth, mHeight;
    private long mStart;
    private Context mContext;
    public GifImageView(Context context) {
        super(context);
        this.mContext = context;
    }
    public GifImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        this(context, attrs, 0);
    }
    public GifImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
        this.mContext = context;
        if (attrs.getAttributeName(1).equals("background")) {
            int id = Integer.parseInt(attrs.getAttributeValue(1).substring(1));
            setGifImageResource(id);
        }
    }
    private void init() {
        setFocusable(true);
        mMovie = Movie.decodeStream(mInputStream);
        mWidth = mMovie.width();
        mHeight = mMovie.height();
        requestLayout();
    }
    @Override
    protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
        setMeasuredDimension(mWidth, mHeight);
    }
    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        long now = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
        if (mStart == 0) {
            mStart = now;
        }
        if (mMovie != null) {
            int duration = mMovie.duration();
            if (duration == 0) {
                duration = 1000;
            }
            int relTime = (int) ((now - mStart) % duration);
            mMovie.setTime(relTime);
            mMovie.draw(canvas, 0, 0);
            invalidate();
        }
    }
    public void setGifImageResource(int id) {
        mInputStream = mContext.getResources().openRawResource(id);
        init();
    }
    public void setGifImageUri(Uri uri) {
        try {
            mInputStream = mContext.getContentResolver().openInputStream(uri);
            init();
        } catch (FileNotFoundException e) {
            Log.e("GIfImageView", "File not found");
        }
    }
}

Now define GifImageView in MainActivity File: src/activity/MainActivity.class

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);
        GifImageView gifImageView = (GifImageView) findViewById(R.id.GifImageView);
        gifImageView.setGifImageResource(R.drawable.smartphone_drib);
    }
}

Now UI Part File: res/layout/activity_main.xml

Resourece code : Android example