android-gif-drawable

Views and Drawable for animated GIFs in Android.

Overview

Bundled GIFLib via JNI is used to render frames. This way should be more efficient than WebView or Movie classes.

Javadoc

Setup

Gradle (Android Studio)

Insert the following dependency to build.gradle file of your project.

dependencies {
    compile 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.8'
}

Note that Maven central repository should be defined eg. in top-level build.gradle like this:

buildscript {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}
allprojects {
    repositories {
        mavenCentral()
    }
}

Gradle, snapshot repository

Current development builds (build from dev branch) are published to OSS snapshot repository. To use them, specify repository URL in repositories block:

repositories {
    mavenCentral()
    maven { url "https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots" }
}
dependencies {
    compile 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.+'
}

Maven dependency

<dependency>
    <groupId>pl.droidsonroids.gif</groupId>
    <artifactId>android-gif-drawable</artifactId>
    <version>insert latest version here</version>
    <type>aar</type>
</dependency>

Eclipse

See Sample eclipse project with setup instructions.

Download

Latest release downloads

Requirements

• Android 2.3+ (API level 9+)
• for GifTextureView Android 4.0+ (API level 14+) and hardware-accelerated rendering
• for GifTexImage2D OpenGL ES 2.0+

Building from source

• Android NDK needed to compile native sources

Usage

Sample project

See sample directory. Sample project is under construction. Not all features are covered yet.