How to make animated GIFs work from Android WebView

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John in MD picture John in MD · Apr 24, 2010 · Viewed 12.6k times · Source

Animated GIF images rendered by Android's WebView do not seem to animate. Has anyone figured out how to make them work? I'm testing on an N1 with 2.1-u1. None of the web settings available seem applicable.

Answer

vladikoff picture vladikoff · Apr 24, 2010

Not supported YET. Read more about this here: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=3422

For large memory phones like Droid and Nexus One, the two-line change has been made in Froyo (unreleased) to enable animated GIFs. For small memory phones, the change is not trivial and did not make it into this future release.

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