# Animated Gif Support

DevFeed: [Animated Gif Support](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/animated-gif-support-19194.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://www.codenameone.com/blog/animated-gif-support/>)

Author: Shai Almog

Published: 2017-08-07T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [CodeName One](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/codename-one.md>)

Topics: [image animation](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/image-animation.md>), [Library](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/library.md>), [Usability](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/usability.md>)

Tags: [animation](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/animation.md>), [battery](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/battery.md>), [blog](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog.md>), [blog-post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blog-post.md>), [display](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/display.md>), [gif](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/gif.md>), [image](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/image.md>), [library](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/library.md>), [memory](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/memory.md>), [post](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/post.md>), [usability](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/usability.md>)

## AI overview

This blog post announces animated GIF support in Codename One through a new cn1lib, explaining that GIFs can be used as plug-in images in places such as labels and background styles. It notes resource, memory, and battery costs, and describes limitations including incompatibility with native map markers.

## Source excerpt

So you know how you write a blog post just before you go on vacation, press publish and never check that it actually got published... Funny thing, that's exactly what I did and the blog post mentioning that I was on "vacation" for a couple of weeks never got published. Anyway, other people have been busy while I was "away" but I got a couple of things done too including animated gif support.