How do you use GIF in android?

Answer 1

GIFView Tellmehow is a library for playing gifs on Android. Simple android view to display gifs efficiently. You can start, pause and stop gifView.

1Gradle

Add these lines on top-level build file

2Add in view

1. android:id="@+id/gif1"
2. android:layout_width="wrap_content"
3. android:layout_height="wrap_content"
4. android:visibility="gone"
5. custom:gif="@mipmap/gif1" />

3Last give some functionalities

1. GifView gifView1 = (GifView) view.findViewById(R.id.gif1);
2. gifView1.setVisibility(View.VISIBLE);
3. gifView1.play();
4. gifView1.pause();
5. gifView1.setGifResource(R.mipmap.gif5);
6. gifView1.getGifResource();
7. gifView1.setMovieTime(time);
8. gifView1.getMovie();

That's it. Yes it is simple to implement as you can see.