Animated GIF Image as a splash screen in iphone

Question

I have an animated GIF image and this has to be used as a Splash Screen. Could you please help me figure out how to develop an animated splash screen using the GIF?

Answer 1

Use the builtin animation methods for UIImageView. You'll need to create an NSArray of UIImages. After that:

myImageView.animationImages = myArrayOfImages;
myImageView.animationRepeatCount = 0;   // forever
[myImageView startAnimating];

To do this with a GIF, you'd need to split the animated GIF into its individual images and then populate myArrayOfImages with one UIImage for each individual GIF image. UIImage supports PNG or JPEG representations.

[Edit] If you really must keep the animated GIF in tact, then create a UIWebView and load a URL to that GIF image.