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

The easy way to display animated GIF directly from URL to your app layout is to use WebView class.

Step 1: In your layout XML

Step 2: In your Activity

WebView wb;
wb = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);
wb.loadUrl("https://.......);

Step 3: In your Manifest.XML make Internet permission

Step 4: In case you want to make your GIF background transparent and make GIF fit to your Layout

wb.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
wb.getSettings().setLoadWithOverviewMode(true);
wb.getSettings().setUseWideViewPort(true);