How to play GIF in android

Question

Hello stackoverflow I'm trying to develop an android application to play my own GIF, here is the code snippet

MainActivity.java

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

@Override
protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    setContentView(R.layout.main);
}
}

AnimationView.java

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.InputStream;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Movie;
import android.util.AttributeSet;
import android.view.View;

public class AnimationView extends View {
private Movie mMovie;
private long mMovieStart;
private static final boolean DECODE_STREAM = true;

private int mDrawLeftPos;
private int mHeight, mWidth;

private static byte[] streamToBytes(InputStream is) {
    ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(1024);
    byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
    int len;
    try {
        while ((len = is.read(buffer)) >= 0) {
            os.write(buffer, 0, len);
        }
    } catch (java.io.IOException e) {
    }
    return os.toByteArray();
}

public AnimationView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
    super(context, attrs);
    setFocusable(true);
    java.io.InputStream is;
    is = context.getResources().openRawResource(R.drawable.scanning);
    if (DECODE_STREAM) {
        mMovie = Movie.decodeStream(is);
    } else {
        byte[] array = streamToBytes(is);
        mMovie = Movie.decodeByteArray(array, 0, array.length);
    }
}

@Override
protected void onMeasure( int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec )
{   
    int p_top = this.getPaddingTop(), p_bottom = this.getPaddingBottom();

    mWidth = mMovie.width();
    mHeight = mMovie.height();
    // Calculate new desired height
    final int desiredHSpec = MeasureSpec.makeMeasureSpec( mHeight + p_top + p_bottom , MeasureSpec.EXACTLY );

    setMeasuredDimension( widthMeasureSpec, desiredHSpec );
    super.onMeasure( widthMeasureSpec, desiredHSpec );

    // Update the draw left position
    mDrawLeftPos = Math.max( ( this.getWidth() - mWidth ) / 2, 0) ;
}

@Override
public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    long now = android.os.SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
    if (mMovieStart == 0) { // first time
        mMovieStart = now;
    }
    if (mMovie != null) {
        int dur = mMovie.duration();
        if (dur == 0) {
            dur = 3000;
        }
        int relTime = (int) ((now - mMovieStart) % dur);
        // Log.d("", "real time :: " +relTime);
        mMovie.setTime(relTime);
        mMovie.draw(canvas, mDrawLeftPos, this.getPaddingTop());
        invalidate();
    }
}
}

main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
android:layout_width="match_parent"
android:layout_height="match_parent"
android:background="#FFFFFF"
android:orientation="vertical" >

<com.example.androidgifwork.AnimationView
                    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
                    android:layout_centerInParent="true" />
</LinearLayout>

Manifest.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<manifest xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
package="com.example.androidgifwork"
android:versionCode="1"
android:versionName="1.0" >

<uses-sdk
    android:minSdkVersion="8"
    android:targetSdkVersion="19" />

<application
    android:icon="@drawable/ic_launcher"
    android:label="@string/app_name" >
    <activity
        android:name="com.example.androidgifwork.MainActivity"
        android:label="@string/app_name" >
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />

            <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>
</application>

When I run the above code snippet GIF is not at all running, but when I remove android:targetSdkVersion="19" GIF running, please help me to solve this riddle.

Thanks

Answer 1

2017 UPDATED ANSWER

To play GIF in android use Glide library to load any image or GIF.

Glide.with(context)
.load(YOUR_GIF)
.into(YOUR_IMAGE_VIEW);

Use Glide to load normal images, images from server or even to load GIF as well. Also have a look at Picasso android image loading library which is similar to Glide but as of now(16 Apr 2017) Picasso doesn't support GIF loading in android yet.

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OLD ANSWER

For all Those who want to play GIF in your app please find the code below PlayGifView.java

 import android.annotation.SuppressLint;
 import android.content.Context;
 import android.graphics.Canvas;
 import android.graphics.Movie;
 import android.os.Build;
 import android.util.AttributeSet;
 import android.view.View;

 public class PlayGifView extends View{

     private static final int DEFAULT_MOVIEW_DURATION = 1000;

     private int mMovieResourceId;
     private Movie mMovie;

     private long mMovieStart = 0;
     private int mCurrentAnimationTime = 0;

     @SuppressLint("NewApi")
     public PlayGifView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) {
         super(context, attrs);

        /**
         * Starting from HONEYCOMB have to turn off HardWare acceleration to draw
         * Movie on Canvas.
         */
        if (Build.VERSION.SDK_INT >= Build.VERSION_CODES.HONEYCOMB) {
            setLayerType(View.LAYER_TYPE_SOFTWARE, null);
        }
    }

     public void setImageResource(int mvId){
         this.mMovieResourceId = mvId;
    mMovie = Movie.decodeStream(getResources().openRawResource(mMovieResourceId));
    requestLayout();
}

@Override
protected void onMeasure(int widthMeasureSpec, int heightMeasureSpec) {
    if(mMovie != null){
        setMeasuredDimension(mMovie.width(), mMovie.height());
    }else{
        setMeasuredDimension(getSuggestedMinimumWidth(), getSuggestedMinimumHeight());
    }
}

@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
    if (mMovie != null){
        updateAnimtionTime();
        drawGif(canvas);
        invalidate();
    }else{
        drawGif(canvas);
    }
}

private void updateAnimtionTime() {
    long now = android.os.SystemClock.uptimeMillis();

    if (mMovieStart == 0) {
        mMovieStart = now;
    }
    int dur = mMovie.duration();
    if (dur == 0) {
        dur = DEFAULT_MOVIEW_DURATION;
    }
    mCurrentAnimationTime = (int) ((now - mMovieStart) % dur);
}

private void drawGif(Canvas canvas) {
    mMovie.setTime(mCurrentAnimationTime);
    mMovie.draw(canvas, 0, 0);
    canvas.restore();
}

}

In your activity class use the following code to play GIF

PlayGifView pGif = (PlayGifView) findViewById(R.id.viewGif);
pGif.setImageResource(<Your GIF file name Eg: R.drawable.infinity_gif>);

XML layout

<yourPacckageName.PlayGifView
            android:id="@+id/viewGif"
            android:layout_width="wrap_content"
            android:layout_height="wrap_content"
            android:layout_gravity="center" />

Answer 2

Use Glide to load any gif from your project's raw folder or external URL into ImageView, ImageButtons or similar [Glide targets][2]

Glide.with(getActivity()).load(R.raw.alarm).asGif().into(btnAlert);

Answer 3

If you can use a WebView, GIFs will play directly over it. But I am not sure, in your case whether you want to put it in a Webview or not.