How to show Animated GIF image in android application?

You can also use this lib to easily support a gifDrawable.

Just use GifImageView instead of normal ImageView:

<pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifImageView
    android:layout_width="wrap_content"
    android:layout_height="wrap_content"
    android:src="@drawable/your_anim"/>

and locate your gif-file under the src attr. That's all!

After long Google search, I knew that there is no native support for the GIF images. There are no proper solutions for showing the animated gif in application. You can view This solution

to make the animated gif play in a layout.

You can use Glide :

ImageView imageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.imageView);
GlideDrawableImageViewTarget imageViewTarget = new GlideDrawableImageViewTarget(imageView);
Glide.with(this).load(R.raw.sample_gif).into(imageViewTarget);