Adds performant animated GIF support to UIKit, without subclassing UIImageView
. Check out the demo. If you're looking for the Japanese prefecture, click here.
Because Apple's +animatedImage*
is not meant to be used for animated GIFs (loads all the frames in memory), and the few third party implementations that got it right (see Credits) still require you to use a UIImageView
subclass, which is not very flexible and might clash with other application-specific functionality.
Gifu is a UIImage
subclass and UIImageView
extension written in Swift.
It uses CADisplayLink
to animate the view and only keeps a limited number of
frames in-memory, which exponentially minimizes memory usage for large GIF files (+300
frames).
The figure below summarizes how this works in practice. Given an image containing 10 frames, Gifu will load the current frame (red), pre-load the next two frames in this example (orange), and nullify all the other frames to free up memory (gray):
Use git submodules or drag-and-drop the files in your Xcode project. I can't believe I'm saying this in 2014.
Once done, you can call setAnimatableImage(named:)
or
setAnimatableImage(data:)
on your UIImageView
(or its subclass):
let imageView = UIImageView(...)
imageView.setAnimatableImage(named: "computer-kid.gif")
// imageView.setAnimatableImage(data: NSData(...))
The image view will not start animating until you call startAnimating()
on it. You can stop the animation anytime using stopAnimating()
, and resume
it using startAnimating()
.
The isAnimating()
method returns the current animation state of the view.
For an example, check out the demo app here (requires Xcode 6).
- iOS 7+
The usual suspects:
- Add documentation.
- Write some basic tests.
Needless to say, you are welcome to contribute.
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The animation technique described above was originally spotted on OLImageView, then improved in YLGIFImage.
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The font used in the logo is Azuki
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Kudos to my colleague Tony DiPasquale for helping out with the factory methods.
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The characters used in the icon and example image in the demo are from Samurai Champloo.
See LICENSE.