October 2018
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
15h 17m
English
Content preview from Android 9 Development Cookbook - Third Edition
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Displaying animated image (GIF/WebP) with the new ImageDecoder library
Android P (API 28) introduces a new library called ImageDecoder, which will be deprecating the BitmapFactory class. This new image library promises to make it easier to work with not just bitmaps, but several other file formats not supported in the old BitmapFactory class, such as GIF and WebP animated images.
At the time of writing, it is only available on devices running Android P (or later) and is not available in the support library, but according to this issue on the Google issue tracker, there are plans to add ImageDecoder to the support library: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/78041382.
When, or if, that happens, the previous examples will be updated to use ...