Question

How to add animated gif file as a default image for UIButton.
I have added gif file as button image. But it is not animating.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Animated GIF won’t animate in iphone.. You should add a UIImageView as subview to UIButton, extract all images from your GIF and animate using UIImageView Animation

UIImageView* animatedImageView = [[UIImageView alloc] initWithFrame:self.view.bounds];
animatedImageView.animationImages = [NSArray arrayWithObjects:    
                               [UIImage imageNamed:@"image1.gif"],
                               [UIImage imageNamed:@"image2.gif"],
                               [UIImage imageNamed:@"image3.gif"],
                               [UIImage imageNamed:@"image4.gif"], nil];
animatedImageView.animationDuration = 1.0f;
animatedImageView.animationRepeatCount = 0;
[animatedImageView startAnimating];
[yourButton addSubview: animatedImageView];