Why i can not play gif animation in android videoView?

Question

I'm beginner in android and want to play gif animation in android video view so my gif file in this image show:

and write this code for play that:

VideoView videoView = (VideoView)findViewById(R.id.video_view);
        videoView.setVideoPath("raw/newline.gif");
        videoView.start();

but when run that app,i get error,can not play this video,why?

Answer 1

Try this code:

Uri uri= Uri.parse("android.resource://" + getPackageName() + "/" + R.raw.newline);
videoView.setVideoURI(uri);
videoView.start();

Your mistake is that you can't just specify a path to resource file. In this case you have to use Uri.

But AFAIK VideoView can't play gif. So check out this and this solutions.