How to display gif (animated/ moving images) in layout of your Android app?

In this video it shows the steps to implement the animated gif images in your Android App.

GIF, Graphics Interchange Format, are short animated images. In this tutorial it uses ‘pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.25’ dependency in gradle file. Maven repository for this dependency can be referred at: https://search.maven.org/artifact/pl.droidsonroids.gif/android-gif-drawable/1.2.25/aar

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Complete source code and other details:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android"
    xmlns:app="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res-auto"
    xmlns:tools="http://schemas.android.com/tools"
    android:layout_width="match_parent"
    android:layout_height="match_parent"
    tools:context=".MainActivity">

    <pl.droidsonroids.gif.GifImageView
        android:layout_width="300dp"
        android:layout_height="300dp"
        android:layout_marginStart="64dp"
        android:layout_marginTop="120dp"
        android:src="@drawable/bird"
        app:layout_constraintStart_toStartOf="parent"
        app:layout_constraintTop_toTopOf="parent" />


</androidx.constraintlayout.widget.ConstraintLayout>

plugins {
    id 'com.android.application'
}

android {
    namespace 'com.programmerworld.gifimageapp'
    compileSdk 32

    defaultConfig {
        applicationId "com.programmerworld.gifimageapp"
        minSdk 32
        targetSdk 32
        versionCode 1
        versionName "1.0"

        testInstrumentationRunner "androidx.test.runner.AndroidJUnitRunner"
    }

    buildTypes {
        release {
            minifyEnabled false
            proguardFiles getDefaultProguardFile('proguard-android-optimize.txt'), 'proguard-rules.pro'
        }
    }
    compileOptions {
        sourceCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
        targetCompatibility JavaVersion.VERSION_1_8
    }
}

dependencies {

    implementation 'androidx.appcompat:appcompat:1.5.1'
    implementation 'com.google.android.material:material:1.7.0'
    implementation 'androidx.constraintlayout:constraintlayout:2.1.4'
    testImplementation 'junit:junit:4.13.2'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.ext:junit:1.1.3'
    androidTestImplementation 'androidx.test.espresso:espresso-core:3.4.0'

    implementation 'pl.droidsonroids.gif:android-gif-drawable:1.2.25'
}

Java code is not relevant here.

GIF Image used in this example: