How to convert video to gif in android programmatically [closed]

Question

Is it possible to convert recorded video into GIF in Android programmatically? Can you help me with some sniped code or tell me how to do it?

Answer 1

My advice would be to use MediaMetadataRetriever and call getFrameAtTime() method to retrieve the frames you want to extract:

// Get your video file
File myVideo = new File
         (Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory().getAbsolutePath(),
                                                               "YOUR_FILE.mp4");
// URI to your video file
Uri myVideoUri = Uri.parse(myVideo.toString());

// MediaMetadataRetriever instance
MediaMetadataRetriever mmRetriever = new MediaMetadataRetriever();
mmRetriever.setDataSource(myVideo.getAbsolutePath());

// Array list to hold your frames
ArrayList<Bitmap> frames = new ArrayList<Bitmap>();

//Create a new Media Player
MediaPlayer mp = MediaPlayer.create(getBaseContext(), myVideoUri);

// Some kind of iteration to retrieve the frames and add it to Array list
Bitmap bitmap = mmRetriever.getFrameAtTime(TIME IN MICROSECONDS);
frames.add(bitmap);

And then create a Drawable Animation programmatically:

AnimationDrawable animatedGIF = new AnimationDrawable();

animationDrawable.addFrame("FIRST FRAME", 50);
animationDrawable.addFrame("SECOND FRAME", 50);
...
animationDrawable.addFrame("LAST FRAME ", 50);