Displaying Animated gif using animate drawable problems

Question

I'm attempting to have my animated gif animate on loop with the following code but I'm not having any luck...

JAVA

ImageView img = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.load_img);
img.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.load_animation);

AnimationDrawable frameAnimation = (AnimationDrawable) img.getBackground();

frameAnimation.start();

XML

<animation-list android:oneshot="false" xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<item android:drawable="@drawable/load_0000" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/load_0001" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/load_0002" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/load_0003" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/load_0004" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/load_0005" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/load_0006" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/load_0007" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/load_0008" android:duration="50" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/load_0009" android:duration="50" />
</animation-list>

Anyone have any idea as to why it isn't animating?

score 10 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 28 '11 at 02:39

Seems that I was experiencing the same problem, when I used whether it is setImageResource(R.drawable.load_animation) or setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.load_animation), the image wasn't displaying.

then I try to put the code in my XML view file, with android:background="@drawable/load_animation got the image showed, but still not animated, it was only displaying a static image.

then after googling around a while I found that AnimationDrawable can not work in onCreate we can either put it in onResume or onWindowsFocusChanged. So here I try with this:

    public void onWindowFocusChanged(boolean hasFocus) {
    loadingAnimation = (AnimationDrawable)
    findViewById(R.id.img_loading).getBackground();
    if (hasFocus) {
        loadingAnimation.start();
    } 
    else {
        loadingAnimation.stop();
    }
}

finally it works, the gif both showed and animated!

Oh my God how long have I been trying to get this damn thing working... THANK YOU !!!!! — George, Dec 16 '11 at 17:43

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered May 24 '11 at 11:26

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Try calling setImageResource(R.drawable.load_animation), not setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.load_animation).

answered May 24 '11 at 11:26

CommonsWare

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 05 '11 at 03:45

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i think you should use img.startxx(frameAnimation)

answered Sep 05 '11 at 03:45

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Displaying Animated gif using animate drawable problems

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