GIF Animation In Android

The gif animation is supported in Android when GIF animation is played as Movie. Movie is a class provided to you by Android SDK.

In your main or any Activity File

public class AA extends Activity {

@Override
public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState){

super.onCreate(savedInstanceStated);


setContentView(new MYGIFView());
}

}


Here's the class


private class MYGIFView extends View{

Movie movie,movie1;
InputStream is=null,is1=null;
long moviestart;
public GIFView(Context context) {
super(context);


Provide your own gif animation file

is=context.getResources().openRawResource(R.drawable.earth);
movie=Movie.decodeStream(is);

}

@Override
protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {

canvas.drawColor(Color.WHITE);
super.onDraw(canvas);
long now=android.os.SystemClock.uptimeMillis();
System.out.println("now="+now);
if (moviestart == 0) { // first time
moviestart = now;

}
System.out.println("\tmoviestart="+moviestart);
int relTime = (int)((now - moviestart) % movie.duration()) ;
System.out.println("time="+relTime+"\treltime="+movie.duration());
movie.setTime(relTime);
movie.draw(canvas,this.getWidth()/2-20,this.getHeight()/2-40);
this.invalidate();
}
}