WinRT - Display animated GIF in a control

Question

I need to display an animated GIF in my metro app, but I can't find any control that allows it. (I tried Image, MediaElement and MediaPlayer from the Player Framework)

Is it possible somehow to display an animated GIF?

Answer 1

You can achieve this natively by using the BitmapDecoder class in the .NET Framework. I have an example on my blog, that shows how to implement an AnimationControl that is able to show animated GIFs from a ressource gif file. Check out: http://www.henrikbrinch.dk/Blog/2013/02/21/Windows-8---GIF-animations--the-RIGHT-way