gif-animation support

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Hey Guys,

my animated gifs aren't animated!

Original issue reported on code.google.com by oskarstark@googlemail.com on 17 Oct 2010 at 9:09

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Original comment by ma...@google.com on 28 Oct 2010 at 7:49

• Changed state: Noted

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I don't believe that Android supports GIF animation.  We'll look into alternate 
way to do this.  In the meantime you can create your own anumation loops with a 
list of images and a timer.

Original comment by halabel...@google.com on 29 Oct 2010 at 8:20

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Someone said in another post somewhere that animated Gifs had started working 
in a recent release.  

Was this actually new hardware they assumed was the OS?
Or is this now implemented?

I'm new here, reading all the bugs and missing parts, and then seeing posts 
where some of those now work. Can you mark the posts as "processed" or 
something when they reach a state you aren't working on them anymore?

I've filed away several app ideas because it says they can't be done at this 
time on this forum. (like all with horizontal screens.) It would suck to find 
out the post was out of date.

Original comment by 3dvisual...@gmail.com on 10 Nov 2010 at 4:26

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I am still unable to animate my GIFs, it is showing as a simple image.

Original comment by theultim...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2010 at 11:29

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Hence the status "noted" it has not been implemented yet.

Original comment by chrisyu...@gmail.com on 21 Dec 2010 at 11:35

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Is there some way I could convert it to another format like a video or 
something and get it to work?

Original comment by Crazin...@gmail.com on 20 Jan 2011 at 5:29

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i would like this

Original comment by agy2...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2011 at 4:45

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i would like this

Original comment by agy2...@gmail.com on 29 Jan 2011 at 4:46

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need of support animated gif too

Original comment by FW.eX...@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2011 at 8:28

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Yes....animated.gif files would be the best!!!!!!

Original comment by shellyla...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2011 at 8:18

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Please support gif, or maybe sequential png/jpg?

Original comment by lostpand...@gmail.com on 6 May 2011 at 8:52

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I realise that its possible to swap sprite images with a timer to give simple 
animation, but for more complex things thats far to resource heavy - please 
please animated gif.

Original comment by chrisw.g...@gmail.com on 13 Mar 2012 at 2:11

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Hello i have created this view, it is based on the solutions i saw around on 
the internet. For my purpose - showing loading wheel worked great. Hope it 
someone helps.

Original comment by cabala.m...@gmail.com on 20 Apr 2012 at 11:46

Attachments:

• gif.java
• gif.xml

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Allowing animated gif images would help create very impressive UI's.  I realize 
that it isn't natively supported, but stripping a gif layer by layer creates a 
huge app, if it's even packageable after uploading all the images and running a 
timer to create an animation.  It may be asking a lot, but I know I would 
greatly appreciate it, and so would many others i'm sure.  Thanks for all the 
great work guys, keep it up!

Original comment by labig.pr...@gmail.com on 23 Jun 2012 at 4:05

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just make an HTML with <img src="*.gif height="X" width="X" /> and after that 
open this html into the webviewer..

Original comment by iga...@gmail.com on 30 Sep 2012 at 5:11

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i tried many ways but i coudlnt able to show .gif wiv app inventor as well :((

Original comment by yeniha...@gmail.com on 24 Apr 2013 at 7:22

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using HTML will not look professional . App Inventor should allow to run GIF .

Original comment by masoodgh...@gmail.com on 16 Aug 2013 at 6:32