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.
Animation starts automatically and run only if View with attached GifDrawable is visible.

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Setup

Maven dependency

SDK with API level 19 is needed. If you don't have it in your local repository, download maven-android-sdk-deployer and install SDK level 19: mvn install -P 4.4 (from maven-android-sdk-deployer directory).

1. Install artifact to your local repository: mvn install
2. Add dependency in pom.xml of your project:

<dependency>
	<groupId>pl.droidsonroids.gif</groupId>
	<artifactId>android-gif-drawable</artifactId>
	<version>1.0.4</version>
</dependency>

APKLIB (for non-maven users)

1. Download and unzip APKLIB from Latest release downloads
2. Create ANT project or import existing Android code in Eclipse
3. Add newly created library project as a reference in your project

###Requirements

• Android 1.6+ (API level 4+)

####Using JAR in Eclipse (NOT recommended, use APKLIB instead)

• following option must be unchecked Window>Preferences>Android>Build>Force error when external jars contains native libraries

####Building from source

• Android NDK needed to compile native sources

##Usage

###From XML The simplest way is to use GifImageView (or GifImageButton) like a normal ImageView:

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

If drawables declared by android:src and/or android:background are GIF files then they will be automatically recognized as GifDrawables and animated. If given drawable is not a GIF then mentioned Views work like plain ImageView and ImageButton.

GifTextView allows you to use GIFs as compound drawables and background.

<pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifTextView
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:drawableTop="@drawable/left_anim"
    android:drawableStart="@drawable/left_anim"
    android:background="@drawable/bg_anim"
    />

###From Java code GifImageView, GifImageButton and GifTextView have also hooks for setters implemented. So animated GIFs can be set by calling setImageResource(int resId) and setBackgroundResource(int resId)

GifDrawable can be constructed directly from various sources:

		//asset file
		GifDrawable gifFromAssets = new GifDrawable( getAssets(), "anim.gif" );
		
		//resource (drawable or raw)
		GifDrawable gifFromResource = new GifDrawable( getResources(), R.drawable.anim );

		//byte array
		byte[] rawGifBytes = ...
		GifDrawable gifFromBytes = new GifDrawable( rawGifBytes );
		
		//FileDescriptor
		FileDescriptor fd = new RandomAccessFile( "/path/anim.gif", "r" ).getFD();
		GifDrawable gifFromFd = new GifDrawable( fd );
		
		//file path
		GifDrawable gifFromPath = new GifDrawable( "/path/anim.gif" );
		
		//file
		File gifFile = new File(getFilesDir(),"anim.gif");
		GifDrawable gifFromFile = new GifDrawable(gifFile);
		
		//AssetFileDescriptor
		AssetFileDescriptor afd = getAssets().openFd( "anim.gif" );
		GifDrawable gifFromAfd = new GifDrawable( afd );
				
		//InputStream (it must support marking)
		InputStream sourceIs = ...
		BufferedInputStream bis = new BufferedInputStream( sourceIs, GIF_LENGTH );
		GifDrawable gifFromStream = new GifDrawable( bis );
		
		//direct ByteBuffer
		ByteBuffer rawGifBytes = ...
		GifDrawable gifFromBytes = new GifDrawable( rawGifBytes );
		

InputStreams are closed automatically in finalizer if GifDrawable is no longer needed so you don't need to explicitly close them. Calling recycle() will also close underlaying input source.

Note that all input sources need to have ability to rewind to the begining. It is required to correctly play animated GIFs (where animation is repeatable) since subsequent frames are decoded on demand from source.

####Animation control GifDrawable is an Animatable so you can use its methods and more:

• stop() - stops the animation, can be called from any thread
• start() - starts the animation, can be called from any thread
• isRunning() - returns whether animation is currently running or not
• reset() - rewinds the animation, does not restart stopped one
• setSpeed(float factor) - sets new animation speed factor, eg. passing 2.0f will double the animation speed

####Retrieving GIF metadata

• getLoopCount() - returns a loop count as defined in NETSCAPE 2.0 extension
• getNumberOfFrames() - returns number of frames (at least 1)
• getComment() - returns comment text (null if GIF has no comment)
• toString() - returns human readable information about image size and number of frames (intended for debugging purpose)

####Advanced

• recycle() - provided to speed up freeing memory (like in android.graphics.Bitmap).
• getError() - returns last error details

###References This library uses code from GIFLIB 5.0.5 and SKIA.

##License

MIT License
See LICENSE file.