Question

I want an animated gif, since this isn’t possible in Android I am using individual frames in a transition.

except it seems like the transition class only will show two frames ever! I saw other animation methods but they didn’t seem to apply to what I was doing, or seemed old and convulated like for an older infant android build

<transition xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
  <item android:drawable="@drawable/activateanima"></item>
  <item android:drawable="@drawable/activateanimb"></item>
  <item android:drawable="@drawable/activateanimc"></item>
  <item android:drawable="@drawable/activateanimc"></item>
  <item android:drawable="@drawable/activateanimd"></item>
  <item android:drawable="@drawable/activateanime"></item>
  <item android:drawable="@drawable/activateanimf"></item>
  <item android:drawable="@drawable/activateanimg"></item>
</transition>

How do I animate an image to behave like an animated gif, in place. no rotations or translations here. Using android 2.1+

Answer 1

Are you after a Frame animation? See: here. This will play a standing still animation.

Example from above site:

XML file saved at res/anim/rocket.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<animation-list xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    android:oneshot="false">
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/rocket_thrust1" android:duration="200" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/rocket_thrust2" android:duration="200" />
    <item android:drawable="@drawable/rocket_thrust3" android:duration="200" />
</animation-list>

To use:

ImageView rocketImage = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.rocket_image);
rocketImage.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.rocket_thrust);

rocketAnimation = (AnimationDrawable) rocketImage.getBackground();
rocketAnimation.start();