Loading ".gif" animation in android (a painless guide)
Today at eveing my friend asked me if I could manage to create a custom loading dialog with a gif in android. He told me to use a .gif file and not use sprites (frames in xml). I searched online and found out that ImageView doesn't show animation. I thought of using Hipmob/gifanimateddrawable but it was not what my friend wanted. So, I started from scratch and made my own view class. public class GIFView extends View { private Movie movie; //class that loads the animation private int gifID; //stores the id of the drawable gif file private long movieStart; //the time of start of movie private float x, y; //stores the x and y position of the view from the parent layout public int getGifID() { return gifID; } public void setGifID(int gifID) { this.gifID = gifID; } public GIFView(Context context) { super(context); } public GIFView(Context context, AttributeSet attrs) { super(context, attrs); //initialize the view and the abo...
