1. because Android does not have its own GIF animation, I am in the Android (Java) Learning note 198:android under the frame animation (drawable Animation) The podcast mentions that you can use the Animationview (frame animation) method to split a GIF animation software into several static images, and then play the picture in a frame and frame at a certain time interval and play order to give the user experience as if it were animated GIF play.
2. In fact, the online open source project has a more complete code of GIF animation playback, following this as an example to further understand the use of open source projects:
(1) Search in the https://github.com/website: GIF View, when we select Open source projects, not only as we mentioned before (consider the number of users, update time), and consider the ease of use, as follows:
In Gif-movie-view, the project is as follows:
Examples of cases used are: extremely simple and easy to use
Android (Java) Learning Note 207: Open source projects using GIF view