Display Animated GIF in Android

Android Partner

I want to display animated GIF images in my application. As I found out the hard way Android doesn’t support animated GIF naively.

Code:

package com.sandipkalola.animatedgif;

import android.os.Bundle;

import android.os.SystemClock;

import android.app.Activity;

import android.content.Context;

import android.graphics.Canvas;

import android.graphics.Movie;

import android.view.View;

public class MainActivity extends Activity

{

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState)

{

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(new AnimatedGif(this));

    }

static class AnimatedGif extends View

    {

        Movie movie;

        AnimatedGif(Context context)

        {

            super(context);

            movie = Movie.decodeStream(context.getResources().openRawResource( R.drawable.ball));

        }

        @Override

        protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas)

        {

            if (movie != null)

            {

                movie.setTime((int) SystemClock.uptimeMillis() %…

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