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John Weland
42,478 PointsUsing animated images in view background
So I thought I'd make a change to the "stormy weather app" built during one of the Android courses here on Treehouse. We already have the weather icon changing depending on what the Forecast API returns, I thought it would be a nice touch to change the background as well. Then I though what about an animated background. rather than a picture of some rain, whats if the animation was rain drops hitting the screen like a live wallpaper.
Has anyone had experiance with this? I hear Android doesn't have much support if any for GIFs.
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Ken Alger
Treehouse TeacherJohn;
Great idea. You are correct that Android doesn't support animated Gifs at this point. I have seen projects with animations but it takes some effort involving making a "movie" by breaking the individual frames apart. Take a look at this tutorial for some potential ideas.
Hope it helps and happy coding,
Ken