How to add Animated GIF in your android application ?

Adding an animated GIF into our application make it more live and beautiful. And implementing one properly is a little difficult task, well not anymore.

Now adding Animated fig to your application is easy as pie. There is a free library called “android-gif-drawable” by ‘koral’ to implement Animated GIF under MIT License.

How to implement ?

Step 1

Insert this dependency to build.gradle file of your project.

dependencies 
{
    compile 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.3'
}

Sync gradle

Step 2

Move to your XML File  and add this  GifImageView

<pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifImageView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:src="@drawable/src_anim"
    android:background="@drawable/bg_anim"
    />

Set the GIF image you wanted as source from drawable folder

That’s it your good to go.

For more reference visit the library by koral  in github

https://github.com/koral–/android-gif-drawable