Anyone tried <https://github.com/coil-kt/coil> yet...
# singaporek
Kenneth Leong
09/29/2019, 1:16 PMAnyone tried https://github.com/coil-kt/coil yet? Currently using glide but considering coil.
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pandawarrior
09/30/2019, 2:40 AMInteresting. No, haven’t use it yet. But do let us know once you have tried it!
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gildor
09/30/2019, 9:31 AMThis library looks very promising, but nit really mature yet
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Kenneth Leong
09/30/2019, 9:33 AMYea that's y I am hesitating for now. Btw how do you guys/gals handle displaying animation? Like an animated image e.g. gif? Currently I am using https://github.com/koral--/android-gif-drawable
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gildor
09/30/2019, 9:35 AMdepends on what kind animation
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Kenneth Leong
09/30/2019, 9:35 AMA moving image. Not icon size.
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gildor
09/30/2019, 9:36 AMStill not sure what is “moving image”
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Kenneth Leong
09/30/2019, 9:36 AMI saw the potential in coil as the gifdecoder can use the native Android p gif decoders.
Kenneth Leong
09/30/2019, 9:36 AMLike an image gallery but with gifs
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gildor
09/30/2019, 9:37 AMcoil just uses AnimationDrawable
gildor
09/30/2019, 9:37 AMI mean you can just copy this code, it’s just a couple classes
gildor
09/30/2019, 9:38 AMPersonally I wouldn’t use native GIF decoder just for animation, especially if you don’t have other native libraries
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Kenneth Leong
09/30/2019, 9:38 AMReason being?
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gildor
09/30/2019, 9:39 AMalso, why not just use Glide with gif support if you already use it?
gildor
09/30/2019, 9:39 AMBecause it’s native
gildor
09/30/2019, 9:40 AMso you bundle multiple .so files, if you have any crash it’s extremely hard to debug it and I personally don’t think that it would provide any visible advantages comparing to standard system Movie class
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Kenneth Leong
09/30/2019, 9:41 AMI use the gifimageview from koral because it renders gif in the background thread. Using glide I sometimes get jank.
Kenneth Leong
09/30/2019, 9:41 AMBest case of course is animated vectordrawable.
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gildor
09/30/2019, 9:41 AMIt really depends what kind animation it is
gildor
09/30/2019, 9:41 AMif it’s possible to implement with vectordrawable I would never use GIF
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Kenneth Leong
09/30/2019, 9:42 AMYea I agree gif is very very unoptimised for mobile. But well my designer's animated images are sometimes too complex to be converted to avd
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gildor
09/30/2019, 9:49 AMMaybe you should use lottie instead of gifs if your designers use After Effects.
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Kenneth Leong
09/30/2019, 9:54 AMLottie also janks on lower powered devices
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