[android] Adding gif image in an ImageView in android

I added an animated gif image in an imageView. I am not able to view it as a gif image. No animation is there. It's appearing just as a still image. I would like to know how can i show it as a gif image.

We can easily add animated gif image on imageview using Ion library.

Tutorial video :: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqKtpdeIpjA

ImageView image = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.image_gif);
Ion.with(image).load("http://mygifimage.gif");

Use Webview to load gif like as

webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView);
webView.setScrollBarStyle(View.SCROLLBARS_INSIDE_OVERLAY);
webView.getSettings().setLoadsImagesAutomatically(true);
webView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);
webView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/1.gif");

with latest Glide library

use Gradle:

repositories {
  mavenCentral()
  google()
}

dependencies {
  implementation 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:4.8.0'
  annotationProcessor 'com.github.bumptech.glide:compiler:4.8.0'
}

in activity or fragment:

ImageView imageView = findViewById(R.id.imageView);

/* from internet*/
Glide.with(this)
        .load("https://media.giphy.com/media/98uBZTzlXMhkk/giphy.gif")
        .into(imageView);

/*from raw folder*/
Glide.with(this)
        .load(R.raw.giphy)
        .into(imageView);

GIFImageView

public class GifImageView extends ImageView {

    Movie movie;
    InputStream inputStream;
    private long mMovieStart;

    public GifImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, int defStyleAttr) {
        super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
    }

    public GifImageView(Context context) {
        super(context);
    }

    public GifImageView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
        super(context, attrs);
        setFocusable(true);
        inputStream = context.getResources()
                .openRawResource(R.drawable.thunder);
            byte[] array = streamToBytes(inputStream);
            movie = Movie.decodeByteArray(array, 0, array.length);

    }

    private byte[] streamToBytes(InputStream is) {
        ByteArrayOutputStream byteArrayOutputStream = new ByteArrayOutputStream(
                1024);
        byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
        int len;
        try {
            while ((len = is.read(buffer)) >= 0) {
                byteArrayOutputStream.write(buffer, 0, len);
                return byteArrayOutputStream.toByteArray();
            }
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
            return null;
        }
        return null;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        super.onDraw(canvas);
        long now = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
        if (mMovieStart == 0) { // first time
            mMovieStart = now;
        }
        if (movie != null) {
            int dur = movie.duration();
            if (dur == 0) {
                dur = 3000;
            }
            int relTime = (int) ((now - mMovieStart) % dur);
            movie.setTime(relTime);
            movie.draw(canvas, getWidth() - 200, getHeight() - 200);
            invalidate();
        }
    }

}

In XML

<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:id="@+id/container"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content" >

    <TextView
        android:id="@+id/update"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true"
        android:text="abc" /> 

    <com.example.apptracker.GifImageView
        android:id="@+id/gifImageView1"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content"
        android:layout_alignParentLeft="true"
        android:layout_alignParentTop="true" />

</RelativeLayout>

In Java File

public class MainActivity extends Activity {
@Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main); 
        GifImageView gifImageView = (GifImageView) findViewById(R.id.gifImageView1);
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= 11) {
            gifImageView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
        }
    }
}

We need to use gifImageView.setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null); as when hardware accelerated enabled, GIF image not work on those device. Hardware accelerated is enabled on devices above(4.x).

import android.app.Activity;
import android.util.Log;
import android.widget.ImageView;

/**
 * Created by atiq.mumtaz on 25.04.2016.
 */
public class GifImage_Player extends Thread
{
    Activity activity;
    ImageView image_view;
    boolean is_running=false;
    int pause_time;
    int[] drawables;

    public GifImage_Player(Activity activity,ImageView img_view,int[] drawable)
    {
        this.activity=activity;
        this.image_view=img_view;
        this.is_running=true;
        pause_time=25;
        this.drawables=drawable;
    }

    public void set_pause_time(int interval)
    {
        this.pause_time=interval;
    }
    public void stop_playing()
    {
        this.is_running=false;
    }

    public void run()
    {
        Log.d("Gif Player","Gif Player Stopped");

        int pointer=0;
        while (this.is_running)
        {
           if(drawables.length>0)
           {
             if((drawables.length-1)==pointer)
             {
                 pointer=0;
             }


               try
               {
                   activity.runOnUiThread(new Run(pointer));
                   Thread.sleep(pause_time);
               }
               catch (Exception e)
               {
                   Log.d("GifPlayer","Exception: "+e.getMessage());
                   is_running=false;
               }
               pointer++;
           }
        }
        Log.d("Gif Player","Gif Player Stopped");
    }

    class Run implements Runnable
    {
        int pointer;
        public Run(int pointer)
        {
            this.pointer=pointer;
        }
        public void run()
       {
           image_view.setImageResource(drawables[pointer]);
       }
    }
}

/////////////////////////////Usage///////////////////////////////////////




  int[] int_array=new int[]{R.drawable.tmp_0,R.drawable.tmp_1,R.drawable.tmp_2,R.drawable.tmp_3
               ,R.drawable.tmp_4,R.drawable.tmp_5,R.drawable.tmp_6,R.drawable.tmp_7,R.drawable.tmp_8,R.drawable.tmp_9,
                    R.drawable.tmp_10,R.drawable.tmp_11,R.drawable.tmp_12,R.drawable.tmp_13,R.drawable.tmp_14,R.drawable.tmp_15,
                    R.drawable.tmp_16,R.drawable.tmp_17,R.drawable.tmp_18,R.drawable.tmp_19,R.drawable.tmp_20,R.drawable.tmp_21,R.drawable.tmp_22,R.drawable.tmp_23};

GifImage_Player gif_player;             
gif_player=new GifImage_Player(this,(ImageView)findViewById(R.id.mygif),int_array);
            gif_player.start();

In your build.gradle(Module:app), add android-gif-drawable as a dependency by adding the following code:

allprojects {
    repositories {
       mavenCentral()
    }
}

dependencies {
    compile 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.+'
}

---

UPDATE: As of Android Gradle Plugin 3.0.0, the new command for compiling is implementation, so the above line might have to be changed to:

dependencies {
    implementation 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.17'
}

---

Then sync your project. When synchronization ends, go to your layout file and add the following code:

<pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifImageView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:src="@drawable/gif_file"
/>

And that's it, you can manage it with a simple ImageView.

You can display any gif image via library Fresco by Facebook:

Uri uri = Uri.parse("http://domain.com/awersome.gif");
final SimpleDraweeView draweeView = new SimpleDraweeView(context);
final LinearLayout.LayoutParams params = new LinearLayout.LayoutParams(200, 200);

draweeView.setLayoutParams(params);
DraweeController controller = Fresco.newDraweeControllerBuilder()
        .setUri(uri)
        .setAutoPlayAnimations(true)
        .build();
draweeView.setController(controller);
//now just add draweeView to layout and enjoy

I would suggest you to use Glide library. To use Glide you need to add this to add these dependencies

compile 'com.github.bumptech.glide:glide:3.7.0'
compile 'com.android.support:support-v4:23.4.0'

to your grandle (Module:app) file.

Then use this line of code to load your gif image

Glide.with(context).load(R.drawable.loading).asGif().diskCacheStrategy(DiskCacheStrategy.SOURCE).crossFade().into(loadingImageView);

More Information on Glide

Display GIF file in android

Add the following dependency in your build.gradle file.

implementation 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.0'

In the layout - activity_xxxxx.xml file add the GifImageview as below.

<pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifImageView
   android:id="@+id/CorrWrong"
   android:layout_width="100dp"
  android:layout_height="75dp"/>

In your Java file , u can access the gif as below.

 GifImageView emoji;
 emoji = (GifImageView)findViewById(R.id.CorrWrong);

As @Ahmad said in a comment, you can just use the following code to display a gif!

Just simply pop this code in the onCreate method and you're good to go! Also, place your gif inside the assets folder (if you don't have the assets folder, create one under src/main)

WebView wView = new WebView(this);
wView.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/piggy.gif");
setContentView(view);

I faced problem to use

compile 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.1.+'

And also I could not find the jar file to add to my project. So, in order to show gif, I use WebView like this:

WebView webView = (WebView) this.findViewById(R.id.webView);
webView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, "<html><body><center><img style='align:center;width:250px; height:250px; border-radius:50%' src='file:///android_asset/loading.gif'/></center></body></html>", "text/html", "UTF-8", "");
webView.setBackgroundColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);

Based on Ahmad Dwaik 'Warlock's comment, I have tried the following code and it worked.

1. Use a webview in your xml file, and adjust its position to the place where exactly you were trying to show you .gif image.
2. In your activity initialise this small piece of webview like other views.
3. place the .gif image in assets folder
4. now load the image as if you are loading a url into webview like "diyaWebView1.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/www/diya.gif");"
5. you can see your .gif image when you launch the application.

P.S : this things works if you .gif image fits your webview or viceversa else if the image is bigger than the webview the scrollbar gets enabled and user can scroll the image AKA webview. So we need to be careful when we use this, to give proper size to the webview as per image or edit the image that fits your webview.

Gif's can also be displayed in web view with couple of lines of code and without any 3rd party libraries. This way you can even load the gif from your SD card. No need to copy images to your Asset folder.

Take a web view.

<WebView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:id="@+id/imageWebView" />

Use can open a gif file from SD card not just from asset folder as shown in many examples.

    WebView webView = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.imageWebView);
    String  data    = "<body> <img src = \""+ filePath+"\"/></body>";
    // 'filePath' is the path of your .GIF file on SD card.
   webView.loadDataWithBaseURL("file:///android_asset/",data,"text/html","UTF-8",null);

Firstly add a dependency in the module:app build.gradle file

compile 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.1.+'

Then, in the layout file

<pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifImageView
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"
        android:background="@drawable/mq_app"
        />

Showing GIF In Android

Create CustomGifView.java which extends View Class

 public class CustomGifView extends View {

 private InputStream gifInputStream;
 private Movie gifMovie;
 private int movieWidth, movieHeight;
 private long movieDuration;
 private long mMovieStart;

 public CustomGifView(Context context) {
  super(context);
  init(context);
 }

 public CustomGifView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
  super(context, attrs);
  init(context);
 }

 public CustomGifView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs, 
   int defStyleAttr) {
  super(context, attrs, defStyleAttr);
  init(context);
 }

 private void init(Context context){
  setFocusable(true);
  gifInputStream = context.getResources()
    .openRawResource(R.drawable.YOUR_IMAGE);

  gifMovie = Movie.decodeStream(gifInputStream);
  movieWidth = gifMovie.width();
  movieHeight = gifMovie.height();
  movieDuration = gifMovie.duration();
 }

 @Override
 protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, 
   int heightMeasureSpec) {
  setMeasuredDimension(movieWidth, movieHeight);
 }

 public int getMovieWidth(){
  return movieWidth;
 }

 public int getMovieHeight(){
  return movieHeight;
 }

 public long getMovieDuration(){
  return movieDuration;
 }

 @Override
 protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {

  long now = android.os.SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
        if (mMovieStart == 0) {   // first time
            mMovieStart = now;
        }

        if (gifMovie != null) {

            int dur = gifMovie.duration();
            if (dur == 0) {
                dur = 1000;
            }

            int relTime = (int)((now - mMovieStart) % dur);

            gifMovie.setTime(relTime);

            gifMovie.draw(canvas, 0, 0);
            invalidate();

        }

 }

 }

Now call this class in your XML

 <Your_PackageName.CustomGifView
        android:id="@+id/gifview"
        android:layout_width="wrap_content"
        android:layout_height="wrap_content" />

N.P

Modify AndroidManifest.xml to turn OFF hardwareAccelerated.

 android:hardwareAccelerated="false"

Reference

Another Tricks

For animation functionality you may visit

http://developer.android.com/reference/android/graphics/drawable/AnimationDrawable.html

This is what worked for me:

In your build.gradle (project) write mavenCentral() in the buildscript{} and allprojects {}. It should look like this:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        **mavenCentral()**
    }
//more code ...
}
allprojects {
    repositories {
        jcenter()
        **mavenCentral()**
    }
}

Then, in build.gradle(module) add in dependencies{} this snippet:

compile 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.4'

it should look like this:

dependencies {
    compile fileTree(dir: 'libs', include: ['*.jar'])
    androidTestCompile('com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso-core:2.2.2', {
        exclude group: 'com.android.support', module: 'support-annotations'
    })
    compile 'com.android.support:appcompat-v7:25.1.0'
    testCompile 'junit:junit:4.12'
    **compile 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.4'**
}

Put your .gif image in your drawable folder. Now go to app > res > layout > activity_main.xml and add this snipped for your .gif:

<pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifImageView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:src="@drawable/YOUR_GIF_IMAGE"
    android:background="#000000" //for black background
    />

And you're done :)

Helpful links: https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOFY0cwNjuk

Hope this helps.

Use VideoView.

Natively ImageView does not support animated image. You have two options to show animated gif file

1. Use VideoView
2. Use ImageView and Split the gif file into several parts and then apply animation to it