Animated GIF in android

[Gully]

Hi all,

I've just tried loading an animated gif into an Image widget running on android - the whole app gets stuck right after logging "loading yyyy.gif". When run on windows - it obviously works perfectly.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

[Ben Rousch]

It looks like animated gifs on Android is a very old and annoying problem even today (https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3422).

There is probably a better solution, but you could extract each frame from the gif and simulate the animation using Kivy canvas and Clock events to cycle through the frames.

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[Akshay Arora]

I'd make sure you have pil setup as a dep while building your apk. by default gif uses a pure python loader if pil isn't found.

The pure python loader is extremely slow for android. Maybe we should move it to cython, however there is a better solution. Just include pil.

[Gully]

Yup, that's it :) - I just found out it does work, but takes a loooong time :)

Strange, since I do have PIL in my dependencies - I'll make sure it's loaded...

Thanks!

[Akshay Arora]

btw gifs are finicky, even with pil you could see many artifacts(pure python loader might be a bit better but it's unbearably slow). There is a workaround, just add multiple images inside a .zip and set the Image's source to that zip. kivy will automatically animate the Images like a .gif in the order of their file names. For a example of animation using sequenced images like these take a look at the sequenced_images example.

[Willem Dodds]

So you say put it in a zip and it will animate. However will it go through them once and stop on the final frame/ How can one change the settings of how this is animated, so that it goes through the sequence of say 1-4 images and stops and stays on the final fourth one?