Android animated GIF example

The code below shows how to display an animated GIF image in your android activity.You can use it as a splashscreen of your application


activity_min.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"

android:layout_width="match_parent"

android:orientation="vertical"

android:layout_height="match_parent"

>

<TextView

android:id="@+id/textView1"

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

android:layout_gravity="center"

android:textColor="#ACC437"

android:textStyle="bold"

android:text="WelCome To This Blog"

android:textAppearance="?android:attr/textAppearanceLarge" />

<com.example.animation.AnimationView

android:layout_width="wrap_content"

android:layout_height="wrap_content"

/>

</LinearLayout>

MainActivity.java

import android.app.Activity;

import android.os.Bundle;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

@Override

protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {

super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);

setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

}

}

The View Class

AnimationView.java

import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;

import java.io.InputStream;

import android.content.Context;

import android.graphics.Canvas;

import android.graphics.Movie;

import android.util.AttributeSet;

import android.util.Log;

import android.view.View;

public class AnimationView extends View {

private Movie mMovie;

private long mMovieStart;

private static final boolean DECODE_STREAM = true;

private static byte[] streamToBytes(InputStream is) {

ByteArrayOutputStream os = new ByteArrayOutputStream(1024);

byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];

int len;

try {

while ((len = is.read(buffer)) >= 0) {

os.write(buffer, 0, len);

}

}

 catch (java.io.IOException e) {

}

return os.toByteArray();

}

public AnimationView(Context context,AttributeSet attrs) {

super(context,attrs);

setFocusable(true); 

// YOUR GIF IMAGE Here

java.io.InputStream is;

is = context.getResources() .openRawResource(R.drawable.welcome); 

if (DECODE_STREAM) {

mMovie = Movie.decodeStream(is);

}  

else {

byte[] array = streamToBytes(is);

mMovie = Movie.decodeByteArray(array, 0, array.length);

}

}

@Override

public void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {

long now = android.os.SystemClock.uptimeMillis();

if (mMovieStart == 0) { // first time

mMovieStart = now;

}

if (mMovie != null) {

int dur = mMovie.duration();

if (dur == 0) {

dur = 3000;

}

int relTime = (int) ((now - mMovieStart) % dur);

Log.d("", "real time :: " +relTime);

mMovie.setTime(relTime);

mMovie.draw(canvas, getWidth() - 200, getHeight()-200);

invalidate();

}

}

}

  screenshot

Inside the drawables folder make sure that you  have a .gif image named welcome.gif .