How to display GIF in react-native android app?

We made the core library smaller by making things like GIF support optional.

Because of that we have to manually opt-in for gif support in Android. Add both of the following lines to your android/app/build.gradle file under dependencies:

compile "com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:1.3.0"
compile "com.facebook.fresco:animated-base-support:1.3.0"

So your dependencies section might look like this:

dependencies {
  compile fileTree(dir: "libs", include: ["*.jar"])
  compile "com.android.support:appcompat-v7:23.0.1"
  compile "com.facebook.react:react-native:+"  // From node_modules
  compile "com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:1.3.0"
  compile "com.facebook.fresco:animated-base-support:1.3.0"

This solves the problem for your debug build but if you want to solve it also in your release build at them moment you have to add the following line to your proguard-rules file:

-keep class com.facebook.imagepipeline.animated.factory.AnimatedFactoryImpl { public AnimatedFactoryImpl(com.facebook.imagepipeline.bitmaps.PlatformBitmapFactory, com.facebook.imagepipeline.core.ExecutorSupplier); }

More information on this here: https://github.com/facebook/fresco/issues/1177

This was fixed with this commit and will be included in the next release.

if using RN Version .60 try adding below inside app build.gradle file

dependencies {
    implementation 'com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:2.0.0'
}

Source

You can add these dependencies. I am using this in version (v0.44.0):

compile 'com.facebook.fresco:animated-base-support:0.14.1'
compile 'com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:0.14.1' 

In version v0.50 you only need to add

compile 'com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:1.3.0'

All of the above did not work for me with the latest React Native(v0.48). I had to add the following dependencies in my android/app/build.gradle

compile 'com.facebook.fresco:fresco:1.5.0' compile 'com.facebook.fresco:animated-gif:1.5.0'