FRIDAY, APRIL 11, 2014

Animated GIF ImageView Library for Android

Okay Good People!!!
Announcing today a brand new library which is intended to help you out with displaying
Animated GIF's within your applications.
WHY A NEW LIBRARY?
As an Android developer you would have noticed that Android has not provided support for
Animated GIF's as a component.
Therefore in order to show an Animated GIF's we usually end up using WebView in
application which has its own disadvantages (Memorish Isuuess!!!).
THAY THE LIBRARY!
https://code.google.com/p/giflib/
Screenshot of Sample Application

The Sample application demonstrate that the Library Can handle both regular Image
(PNG/JPG) and Animated GIF on same View. Therefore giving developer the flexibility to
use Image/GIF without making any changes to his/her code base.

Sample Implementation:
layout.xml
android:id="@+id/animatedGifImageView"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="wrap_content"
android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
android:layout_alignParentRight="true"
android:layout_above="@+id/button1"
android:layout_below="@+id/textView1" />

Activity.java
animatedGifImageView =
((AnimatedGifImageView)findViewById(R.id.animatedGifImageView));
animatedGifImageView.setAnimatedGif(R.raw.animated_gif,
TYPE.FIT_CENTER);
That's It!
AnimagedGifImageView supports some basic parameters to give you better control of
image resizing (If required) There fore you can pass :
FIT_CENTER: Stretch and fit image while maintaining aspect ratio
STREACH_TO_FIT: Stretch Image irrespective of aspect ratio
AS_IS: Place the image without any manipulations.
Hope you will use the library and make your life easier :)

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16 comments:
sourabh jain June 19, 2014 at 4:47 PM
It works fine. Thanks for your help. Can you please tell me How can I set height and width of
GIFImageView..
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sourabh jain June 19, 2014 at 4:47 PM

Please tell me how can I set height and width..
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newbie August 26, 2014 at 3:12 AM

can you please add the complete code of your sample app? what is AnimatedGifImageView? as
in android studio I'm receiving an error with this.
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Abhinava Srivastava August 26, 2014 at 10:13 AM

Hey Saurabh, simply set the size of GifImageView like you will do for any View. And set the
image inside as fit XY.
@Newbie: You can use the sample provided with the library itself. Cheers.
https://code.google.com/p/giflib/source/browse/src/com/abhi/gif/lib/example/MainActivity.jav
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Anonymous September 3, 2014 at 5:13 PM

Thank you for the Library. It works but, the size of the gif image is not stable. I used a timer to
show different animated images once in 10 seconds, and eachtime the size differs (I used
different flags and it wont help : STREACH_TO_FIT, AS_IS, FIT_CENTER). I tried to invalidate, but
it didnt solve the problem. Any idea why this happens?
Also it looks like there is a memory leak. I use the library to show a list of files, and the memory
usage is increasing as time goes and is not returned by GC.
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Shoshi Joarder October 31, 2014 at 10:24 AM

This solution is not works in Android 4.0.4
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Anonymous November 7, 2014 at 9:16 AM

first, thanks for tutorial, i follow this code and work fine..
i try to add something diferent, i load gif image from local storage,but i get this logcat
java.io.IOException.. how i fix this? i want show gif image from local storage,thanks.
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Mahesh Subudhi January 12, 2015 at 2:16 PM

can u please provide link of library from where to download.
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Sahil Garg February 5, 2015 at 12:07 PM

https://giflib.googlecode.com/archive/a7d47d06a304874671d3fd62e8398510c7b1d428.zip
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Anonymous February 5, 2015 at 10:19 PM

I use AnimatedGifImageView in listview. but error java.lang.NullPointeEexception
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Naag March 28, 2015 at 8:36 AM

with your library i am able to show the GIF but the problem is the GIF is looping.
WHere as the same GIF if i open in browser it is not looping. I only created the GIF with no loop.
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Chandan Wadhwa August 7, 2015 at 1:17 PM

Its working fine. Could you please tell me how to set gif image path from Activity instead of
giving hard coded from init method of GifView class.
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Aman Ullah September 22, 2015 at 8:14 PM

i did work for me, thank u buddy
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Tony Abraham October 7, 2015 at 11:15 AM

Awesome work. It works fine
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shanaya November 10, 2015 at 11:02 AM

wow..its work
can you please tell me if i have 20 gif images...and i want images changes on button click
thanks!
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Unknown November 18, 2015 at 11:30 PM

Hi!

I would like to download Your library but there's nothing on GitHub.

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