iOS Swift How To Use Gif File Inside My Project

Question

In my app I need to use .gif and I did searched on it. Everyone asked to use UIImage.gifImageWithName("funny") or UIImage.gifWithName("jeremy") for adding .gif file. But I'm getting error on those Type 'UIImage' has no member 'gifWithName'. How to solve those Issues and How to use .gif in my app.

Answer 1

Download UIImage+Gif.swift file from https://github.com/bahlo/SwiftGif/tree/master/SwiftGifCommon and put into your project..

// An animated UIImage
let Gif = UIImage.gif(name: "jerry")

// A UIImageView with async loading
let imageView = UIImageView()
imageView.loadGif(name: "tom")]

Answer 2

iOS won't support .gif images directly. You have to use latest version of third party library like SDWebImage. The simplified solution is to use Webview.

Or else, You can use UIImageView+Extension