android - Showing Gif Image with Library

Question

I am using this library to show gif image: https://github.com/felipecsl/GifImageView

But I don't know how to implement my gif image in these code. I have some GifImages in assets folder.

Here is my code:

PlayActivity.java:

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;

import com.felipecsl.gifimageview.library.GifImageView;

import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;

public class PlayActivity extends Activity{

    GifImageView gifView;
    //byte[] bytes;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(final Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.layout_play_activity);

        try {
            InputStream is = getAssets().open("rain_4.gif");
            byte[] bytes = new byte[is.available()];
            is.read(bytes);
            is.close();

            gifView = (GifImageView) findViewById(R.id.gifImageView);
            gifView = new GifImageView(this);
            gifView.setBytes(bytes);
            gifView.startAnimation();
        } catch (IOException e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStart() {
        super.onStart();
        if(gifView != null) gifView.startAnimation();
    }

    @Override
    protected void onStop() {
        super.onStop();
        if(gifView != null) gifView.startAnimation();
    }
}

And layout_play_activity.xml:

<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    android:paddingLeft="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingRight="@dimen/activity_horizontal_margin"
    android:paddingTop="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:paddingBottom="@dimen/activity_vertical_margin"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    tools:context=".PlayActivity">

    <com.felipecsl.gifimageview.library.GifImageView
        android:id="@+id/gifImageView"
        android:layout_gravity="center"
        android:scaleType="fitCenter"
        android:layout_width="match_parent"
        android:layout_height="match_parent"/>

</LinearLayout>

Answer 1

1.I would suggest you to checkout Image Management Library by Facebook that is Fresco that is pretty awesome and mature as compared to other Image Loading Library.

2.Fresco has SimpleDraweeView as custom image view which supports Rounded Corners and Circles link and supports Animated(.gif, .webp) as well as Normal Images(.jpg, .png).

3.Fresco handles all the things caching of images with 3 Tier architecture ( BITMAP_MEMORY_CACHE, ENCODED_MEMORY_CACHE and DISK_CACHE). It also reduces OOM(Out Of Memory) issues. When image in a view goes out of screen it automatically recycles the bitmap, hence releasing the memory.