How to display GIF in react-native android app?

Question

I want to display a simple gif via URL in my Image tag in my android react-native app but when I start it no image is shown. The code as provided in the docs does work only for iOS but not for android:

<Image
  style={styles.gif}
  source={{uri: 'http://38.media.tumblr.com/9e9bd08c6e2d10561dd1fb4197df4c4e/tumblr_mfqekpMktw1rn90umo1_500.gif'}}
/>

There was a similar question here but as already said this only works for iOS: How do I display an animated gif in React Native?
Regarding this commit it should work though: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/commit/fcd7de5301655b39832d49908e5ca72ddaf91f7e

Answer 1

We made the core library smaller by making things like GIF support optional.

Because of that we have to manually opt-in for gif support in Android. Add both of the following lines to your android/app/build.gradle file under dependencies:

compile "com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:1.3.0"
compile "com.facebook.fresco:animated-base-support:1.3.0"

So your dependencies section might look like this:

dependencies {
  compile fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
  compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1"
  compile "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
  compile "com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:1.3.0"
  compile "com.facebook.fresco:animated-base-support:1.3.0"

This solves the problem for your debug build but if you want to solve it also in your release build at them moment you have to add the following line to your proguard-rules file:

-keep class com.facebook.imagepipeline.animated.factory.AnimatedFactoryImpl { public AnimatedFactoryImpl(com.facebook.imagepipeline.bitmaps.PlatformBitmapFactory, com.facebook.imagepipeline.core.ExecutorSupplier); }

More information on this here: https://github.com/facebook/fresco/issues/1177

This was fixed with this commit and will be included in the next release.