How Do I Load a .gif File?

[Msindisi_Mtengwane]

Hey guys

Can you please assist with making a.gif play when you view it on the companion app on the phone. After uploading the .gif, I can see it playing in the "Designer" screen, but it does not play in the IA Companion app. It just shows up as a still image.

Thanks

[TIMAI2]

With built-in blocks
https://puravidaapps.com/snippets.php#2ani

There are extensions that may do the same
https://puravidaapps.com/extensions.php

[Shameek_Biswas]

You can use image component for that

[Taifun]

@Shameek_Biswas

image component

no you can't. because of

@Msindisi_Mtengwane

It just shows up as a still image.

Taifun

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[Shameek_Biswas]

@Taifun

no you can't. because of

We can do it as I tried it

[Patryk_F]

This is interesting. How did you test gif display? You probably just added to the designer. In the designer, the GIF is movable. Not on the phone.

[Msindisi_Mtengwane]

Hi Everyone,

Thank you so much for your effort. I have tried the WebViewer method and it didn't work. It just shows a blank screen now in the part where it's supposed to show the .gif. Below is what my blocks look like. Perhaps it might help make things easier. I have other screens as well. This is just the one I need to view the .gif on.

[TIMAI2]

Can you share the full link to the gif ?

[Msindisi_Mtengwane]

Hi TIMAI,

Thank you so much for your assiatance. I managed to get it to work. Turns out the storage server I was using was not adequate. I uploaded the image to imgBB.com and it worked just fine. See below for ameded arramgement of blocks. The link to the image is https://i.ibb.co/tZP02kR/ezgif-4-7a59467445ee.gif

[netminderno.9apps]

@Msindisi_Mtengwane At a glance, I can see that your global variable CocktailSelected is initialized as a stored value. You can't do that. If you want it to call a stored value on initialization, you should put down a whenScreen1.initialise event block with setglobalCocktail selected to call TinyDB1. Get value blocks inside it. You can initialize it to be whatever was stored then. And initialize the global variable to 0 instead of that getValue block.

[Msindisi_Mtengwane]

Hi Netminderno,

Thanks for the information. I was wondering why I’m getting a warning with that block. I’ll sort it out as soon as I open the code again. I’m still a beginner, and already all the information I just got from you guys has made me see things so much better.

Thanks a lot.

[Msindisi_Mtengwane]

I just did it and it works perfectly. Thank you pointing that out for me. My code is much cleaner now.

[Msindisi_Mtengwane]

Guys is there a way you can use a case / switch function in MAI2? So instead of using a bunch of "IF, Then" blocks, I would have something like "Switch(CocktailSelected): Case1, Case2,Case3...Casen"

[HIFI_APPS]

ya there is there is a block in control u can click the setting icon in the block and add more cases

[Msindisi_Mtengwane]

Awesome. This worked perfectly. Thanks a million.

[Android_Creator]

How can I make the GIFs play when the screen opens but also play them to those who do not have them installed on their device?

[dora_paz]

See below post on how to use gif's

Gif animated Extension. Clickable. Transparent Background

Hello Friend, a couple of years ago I published an extension to work with animated Gif, https://groups.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/mitappinventortest/app-inventor-extensions/_qwTrvHKlXo now I publish another improved code. It needs a Clock and an Image component. The image can be clickable and transparent background. Blocks: LoadGif, needs a Image component. Image file can be in asset, it is only necessary to write its file name. [It could also be in the SdCard, in this case we …

[dora_paz]

Another way to use gif is to splite to frames, upload frames to assets and then with the help of clock component you can alternate images

[vknow360]

You should use a Glide based extension.