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

Image Loader Library for Android, recommended by Google.

• Glide is quite similar to Picasso but this is much faster than Picasso.
• Glide consumes less memory than Picasso.

What that Glide has but Picasso doesn't

An ability to load GIF Animation to a simple ImageView might be the most interesting feature of Glide. And yes, you can't do that with Picasso. Some important links-

1. https://github.com/bumptech/glide
2. http://inthecheesefactory.com/blog/get-to-know-glide-recommended-by-google/en