[Spike 2 hours] GalleryActivity does not animate animated gif
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	Jan 4 2015, 5:54 PM

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See https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketID=8053825
The Jupiter article, in the Orbit and rotation section, shows this. The image animates fine until you tap it, then a limited description page shows where the image does not move.

This task is for investigating the plausibility of implementing animated gifs in our app.

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Declined	None	T91510 Hackathon-able / volunteer-worthy tasks for Mobile Apps
Open	None	T18456 GIF Issues (tracking)
Resolved	• Niedzielski	T85766 [Spike 2 hours] GalleryActivity does not animate animated gif

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• Deskana renamed this task from Animated images freeze when you tap them to GalleryActivity does not animate gifs.Jan 4 2015, 7:40 PM

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Dbrant mentioned this in T86558: Playback of video in media gallery..Jan 12 2015, 7:04 PM

Krenair merged a task: T89189: Gallery: gif images are not animated.Feb 10 2015, 11:56 PM

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TheDJ added a parent task: T18456: GIF Issues (tracking).Jun 7 2015, 2:42 PM

ImageGallery does not display animation -couple of more examples to check: 'Caridoid escape reaction', 'Lilac chaser'.

Dbrant merged a task: T107626: [2.0.106-alpha-2015-07-31]Nexus 5 'Jupiter'-'Orbit and rotation' gif does not show animation.Aug 3 2015, 2:10 PM

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@Etonkovidova, thanks for the extra examples.

@devs, here's what I found:

Picasso: No support planned[0].
android-gif-drawable[1]: I'm not sure how compatible this is with Picasso and it has an NDK dependency :| However, it appears to be built against all ABIs.
android.graphics.Movie: There seems to be a general consensus that Movie is flaky and not well supported.
WebView: a good backup plan.
Ion[2]: by koush. Works for all examples but overlaps responsibilities with Picasso. There's no way to save an animated image, possibly any image, downloaded into the ImageView[3]. However, we might be able to snag it with a little more footwork[4].
gifanimateddrawable[4]: inactive.

I recommend Ion and considering a project wide replacement of Picasso if it works well.

[0] https://github.com/square/picasso/issues/1058
[1] https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable
[2] https://github.com/koush/ion
[3] https://github.com/koush/ion/issues/250
[4] https://github.com/koush/ion/issues/148
[5] https://github.com/Hipmob/gifanimateddrawable