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

There are two options to load animated gifs into our Android apps

1)Using Glide to load the gif into an ImageView.

    String urlGif = "https://cdn.dribbble.com/users/263558/screenshots/1337078/dvsd.gif";
    //add Glide implementation into the build.gradle file.
    ImageView imageView = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageView);
    Uri uri = Uri.parse(urlGif);
    Glide.with(getApplicationContext()).load(uri).into(imageView);

2) Using an html to load the gif into a WebView

Create the html with the address to the .gif file:

store this file into the assets directory:

The load this html into the WebView of your application:

    WebView webView =  (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webView);
    webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);
    webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/html/webpage_gif.html");

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Heres is a complete example of this two options.