How to play GIF in android

Question

Hello stackoverflow I\'m trying to develop an android application to play my own GIF, here is the code snippet

MainActivity.java

Answer 1

add this to your dependencies (build.gradle)

 allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}
dependencies {
    implementation 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.15'
}

and use this in xml to show your gif

 <pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifTextView
                    android:id="@+id/gifTextView2"
                    android:layout_width="230dp"
                    android:layout_height="200dp"
                    android:layout_weight="1"
                    android:src="@drawable/dev_option_gif"
                    />

More info at: https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable

Answer 2

For devices running API 29(Pie) & above you can use AnimatedImageDrawable to play GIF(s) and WebP animated images.

Here's a sample:

ImageView imgGif = findViewById(R.id.imgGif);

if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.P) {
        try {
            drawable = ImageDecoder.decodeDrawable(ImageDecoder.createSource(getResources(), R.drawable.giphy));
            imgGif.setImageDrawable(drawable);

            if (drawable instanceof AnimatedImageDrawable) {
                ((AnimatedImageDrawable) drawable).start();
            }

        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

Using this provides more control & features you can use on the image such as:

• Checking whether the gif is running
• Starting & stopping the playback.
• Applying color filters

• Changing image shape

  and much more