Insert moving image as a background on screen in android

Question

my question might seem simple. I want to insert this kind of image as a background on the activity.(Normal images can be inserted by android:background or setBackground which are in drawable resources). But is this kind of images insertions possible at all? Or any other alternative way to achieve this? Please suggest.

Answer 1

Android doesn't really support animated gifs in an easy manner, so that goes out the window. You can have a layout with a background drawable, that you can use an AsyncTask or Handler to loop through the images. The background layout would contain all your UI elements (or other layouts with your UI elements) and the layout_width and layout_height be set to "match_parent".