How to save a GIF on the iPhone?

Question

how can I save a GIF on the iPhone? The SDK includes only UIImageJPEGRepresentation and UIImagePNGRepresentation but nothing for GIFs or other image formats, is there a way

Answer 1

This is a library I wrote for encoding GIF images on the iPhone, if anyone reading this is interested:

http://jitsik.com/wordpress/?p=208

Answer 2

You can't without a third party GIF library. The question is why do you need it to be GIF? PNG provides all that you might need and it is well supported. If you are trying to do animation, look at UIImageView's -animationImages property.