Android: How do a display a large animated gif given a url?

Question

Suppose I have the URL for large animated gif and I wanted to make a youtube like activity that displays the animation in a streaming way. How do I

1. stream in

Answer 1

Maybe AnimationDrawable could work for you? EDIT: Not if you want to load from a URL like this post is about. Sorry

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/drawable/AnimationDrawable.html

Depending on the complexity of the GIF i.e. if it is a simple loading/progress indicator you could break the GIF apart, save each image separately and use the Android Framework's AnimationDrawable.

For simple progress bars this may be less error prone, maybe even more performant.