Read Gif Images using WebView android

Question

When I try to read a gif images using a WebView in Android 2.3.3 API 10, it's not animated (it appears static). How can I solve this issue? Is there any setting I must change?

ActivtiyMain.xml:

<WebView
    android:id="@+id/webView1"
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:layout_alignLeft="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_below="@+id/textView1"
    android:layout_marginTop="14dp" 
    />

MainActivity.java:

public WebView Wv;

Wv = (WebView) findViewById(R.id.webView1);
Wv.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/bet.gif");

bet.gif: gif images added to the assets folder.

Answer 1

When you are trying to load gif from assets directory, its not animated, you should use GifWebView for this.

activity_main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<RelativeLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:background="#da4040" >

    <WebView
        android:id="@+id/webviewActionView"
        android:layout_width="fill_parent"
        android:layout_height="fill_parent"
        android:minHeight="200dp"
        android:minWidth="200dp"
        android:scrollbars="none" >
    </WebView>

</RelativeLayout>

MainActivity.java

package com.test2;

import java.io.InputStream;

import android.app.Activity;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.webkit.WebView;
import android.webkit.WebViewClient;

public class MainActivity extends Activity {

    WebView webviewActionView;

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

        InputStream stream = null;
        try {
            stream = getAssets().open("loading2.gif");
        } catch (Exception e) {
            e.printStackTrace();
        }

        webviewActionView = (WebView)findViewById(R.id.webviewActionView);
        webviewActionView.setWebViewClient(new MyWebViewClient());
        webviewActionView.getSettings().setJavaScriptEnabled(true);

        GifWebView view = new GifWebView(this, stream);
        webviewActionView.addView(view);
    }

    private class MyWebViewClient extends WebViewClient {
        public boolean shouldOverrideUrlLoading(WebView view, String url) {
            view.loadUrl(url);
            return true;
        }
    }
}

GifWebView.java

package com.test2;

import java.io.InputStream;

import android.content.Context;
import android.graphics.Canvas;
import android.graphics.Color;
import android.graphics.Movie;
import android.os.SystemClock;
import android.view.View;

public class GifWebView extends View {
    private Movie mMovie;
    InputStream mStream;
    long mMoviestart;

    public GifWebView(Context context, InputStream stream) {
        super(context);
        mStream = stream;
        mMovie = Movie.decodeStream(mStream);
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDraw(Canvas canvas) {
        canvas.drawColor(Color.TRANSPARENT);
        super.onDraw(canvas);
        final long now = SystemClock.uptimeMillis();

        if (mMoviestart == 0) {
            mMoviestart = now;
        }
        final int relTime = (int) ((now - mMoviestart) % mMovie.duration());
        mMovie.setTime(relTime);
        mMovie.draw(canvas, 10, 10);
        this.invalidate();
    }
}

Put " loading2.gif " file in your assets directory.

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Answer 2

To use GIF in your android code,

Step 1: Assets folder setting : In this folder you have to place your GIF and html code. Html code is following

 <html> <head> <style type='text/css'>body{margin:auto auto;text-align:center;} img{width:100%25;}</style> </head> <body> <img src="splash.gif" width="100%"/> </body> </html>

In this code lets assume you have splash.gif in ur assets folder

Step 2: Just load the webview with this url

wvSplashScreen.loadUrl("file:///android_asset/splash.html");

By these 2 simple step you can load GIF in your webview

Answer 3

Animated gif's aren't supported yet, although they work on some devices. See: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3422

Answer 4

Have you tried looking into this answer ?

To quote this user @Kantesh:

<html>
<body bgcolor="white">
    <table width="100%" height="100%">
        <tr>
            <td align="center" valign="center">
                <font color="gray">Some text you display</font>
                <br/>
                <br/>
                <br/>
                <br/>
                <br/>
                <img src="yourGIF.gif">
            </td>
        </tr>
    </table>
</body>

Read Gif Images using WebView android

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Read Gif Images using WebView android

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4 answers

solution1 6 ACCPTED 2013-04-01 05:54:00

solution2 5 2016-03-09 07:19:00

solution3 0 2013-03-31 21:29:06

solution4 0 2013-03-31 22:19:31

solution1
6 ACCPTED 2013-04-01 05:54:00

solution2
5 2016-03-09 07:19:00

solution3
0 2013-03-31 21:29:06

solution4
0 2013-03-31 22:19:31