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

also put (main/assets/htmls/name.gif) [with this html adjust to the size]

declare in your Xml for example like this (main/res/layout/name.xml): [you define the size, for example]

in your Activity put the next code inside of onCreate

web = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView); 
web.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT); //for gif without background
web.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/htmls/name.html");

if you want load dynamically you have to load the webview with data:

// or "[path]/name.gif" (e.g: file:///android_asset/name.gif for resources in asset folder), and in loadDataWithBaseURL(), you don't need to set base URL, on the other hand, it's similar to loadData() method.
String gifName = "name.gif";
String yourData = "\n" +
        "    \n" +
        "    \n" +
        "    \n" +
        "    ";
// Important to add this attribute to webView to get resource from outside.
webView.getSettings().setAllowFileAccess(true);

// Notice: should use loadDataWithBaseURL. BaseUrl could be the base url such as the path to asset folder, or SDCard or any other path, where your images or the other media resides related to your html
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/", yourData, "text/html", "utf-8", null);
// Or if you want to load image from SD card or where else, here is the idea.
String base = Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath().toString();
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(base + '/', yourData, "text/html", "utf-8", null);

suggestion: is better load gif with static images for more information check https://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/drawable/AnimationDrawable.html

That's it, I hope you help.