Play.gif image in android without using webview

Question

I tried like this, which i found on the net to play gif images:

private class MYGIFView extends View {

    Movie movie;
    InputStream is = null;
    long          


        

Answer 1

Android cannot play GIF files without WebView. You must break it apart into frames and animate it yourself.

I found on another StackOverflow post this bit of software from XoyoSoft, called GifSplitter, that can split a GIF into frames. You would then want to use AnimationDrawable to combine those.

It would look something like this:

// Your files:
res\drawable-xxxx\frame1.jpg
res\drawable-xxxx\frame2.jpg
res\drawable-xxxx\frame3.jpg
// ...
res\drawable-xxxx\frame99.jpg

Then, there is an example in the AnimationDrawable documentation above that will show how to display those images.

Lastly, you must load and play the animation; that, too, is detailed in the AnimationDrawable documentation.