Apps animated gifs in browser! (from android devs @ google)

[generic.imitation]

If you want to work around this with your own Android build, you'll need to modify C++ code, rebuild, and reflash your phone. You'll need to make two fixes to the released sources. 1) edit the function should_use_animated_gif() in external/webkit/WebCore/platform/graphics/android/ImageSourceAndroid.cpp (around line 217). Return true to animate gifs 2) Change setRGBA() in /WebCore/platform/image-decoders/ImageDecoder.h (around line 173) to call*dest = SkPackARGB32(a, r, g, b) *dest = SkPackARGB32(a, r, g, b) instead of instead of*dest = (a << 24 | r << 16 | g << 8 | b) With these changes, gifs will animated correctly on large memory devices like Droid and Nexus One There's no code path for animating gifs in arbitrary applications like Gallery, except by rewriting it to host a WebView modded as described above

This is from Issue 3422 - android - Animated GIF not working in browser - Project Hosting on Google Code

You can see how much I've been harassing them. C... on the codesite is a great guy, but I had to give him a hard time. If anyone can put this into a ROM please let me know, I really want animated gifs, and this seems like a straightforward fix. Anyone have input for this let me know too.

 

[dbelleman]

have you posted this over on sdx-developers?