Display many images in android

Question

I need to display around 125 images in a imageview like a gif animate in 3-5 seconds. I tried with a timertask but look like slowly, how can I do?

Answer 1

I would insist that you should try using AnimationDrawable. Keep all the image in the drawable folder and you can Animate them one by one after a particular duration.

say you have images in drawable folder like abc1, abc2, abc3,......Then just take one ImageView and iterate all the images in that ImageView using the Animation.

So try it like this, here I am only considering 5 images so if you have 125 then the loop should move upto 125 times.

My xml - main.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<LinearLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:orientation="vertical"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent"
    android:layout_height="fill_parent"
    android:gravity="center_vertical|center_horizontal"
    >
<ImageView  android:id="@+id/imgView"
    android:layout_width="fill_parent" 
    android:layout_height="fill_parent" />
</LinearLayout>

My Java Class - mainAct.java

public class mainAct extends Activity {

    AnimationDrawable anim = new AnimationDrawable();
    Handler handler = new Handler();
    @Override
    public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.main);

        ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imgView);

        for (int i = 1; i <= 5; i++) {
            anim.addFrame(getResources().getDrawable(getResources().getIdentifier("abc"+i, "drawable", getPackageName())), 1000);
        }

        imageView.setBackgroundDrawable(anim);
        imageView.post(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                anim.start();
                handler.postDelayed(new Runnable() {

                    @Override
                    public void run() {
                        mainAct.this.finish();
                    }
                },getTotalAnimationDuration());
            }
        });
    }

    private int getTotalAnimationDuration() {
        int mDuration = 0;
        for (int i = 0; i < anim.getNumberOfFrames(); i++) {
            mDuration = mDuration + anim.getDuration(i);
        }
        return mDuration;
    }

    @Override
    protected void onDestroy() {
        super.onDestroy();
        anim.stop();
    }
}

Answer 2

This resource should be more than helpful, considering.

Display Animated GIF

You could also try: http://obviam.net/index.php/sprite-animation-with-android/