Display animated GIF in iOS

Question

I noticed that with iMessage  animated gifs can now be sent and displayed  Does this mean that Apple is now supporting the display of animated GIFs in an application  or is the easiest method still to split the image in frames and then sequentially show them  What is the easiest way to display an animated GIF as of iOS 5 1   Thanks

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If you are targeting iOS7 and already have the image split into frames you can use animatedImageNamed:duration:.

Let's say you are animating a spinner. Copy all of your frames into the project and name them as follows:

spinner-1.png
spinner-2.png
spinner-3.png
etc.,

Then create the image via:

[UIImage animatedImageNamed:@"spinner-" duration:1.0f];

From the docs:

This method loads a series of files by appending a series of numbers to the base file name provided in the name parameter. For example, if the name parameter had ‘image’ as its contents, this method would attempt to load images from files with the names ‘image0’, ‘image1’ and so on all the way up to ‘image1024’. All images included in the animated image should share the same size and scale.

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import  lt QuickLook QuickLook h gt   import  ViewController h    implementation ViewController  -  void viewDidLoad        super viewDidLoad        QLPreviewController  preview     QLPreviewController alloc  init       preview dataSource   self        self addChildViewController preview        self view addSubview preview view       pragma mark - QLPreviewControllerDataSource  -  NSInteger numberOfPreviewItemsInPreviewController  QLPreviewController   previewController       return 1     -  id previewController  QLPreviewController   previewController previewItemAtIndex  NSInteger idx       NSURL  fileURL    NSURL fileURLWithPath   NSBundle mainBundle  pathForResource   myanimated gif  ofType nil        return fileURL      end

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FLAnimatedImage is a performant open source animated GIF engine for iOS    Plays multiple GIFs simultaneously with a playback speed comparable to desktop browsers Honors variable frame delays Behaves gracefully under memory pressure Eliminates delays or blocking during the first playback loop Interprets the frame delays of fast GIFs the same way modern browsers do   It s a well-tested component that I wrote to power all GIFs in Flipboard

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From iOS 11 Photos framework allows to add animated Gifs playback   Sample app can be dowloaded here  More info about animated Gifs playback  starting from 13 35 min   https   developer apple com videos play wwdc2017 505

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I would recommend using the following code  it s much more lightweight  and compatible with ARC and non-ARC project  it adds a simple category on UIImageView   https   github com mayoff uiimage-from-animated-gif

User · Answer

Another alternative is to use a UIWebView to display the animated GIF  If the GIF is going to be fetched from a server  then this takes care of the fetching  It also works with local GIFs

User · Answer

You can use SwiftGif from this link  Usage   imageView loadGif name   jeremy

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