Android doesn't support the playing of animated GIF files. If you need to play them then you need to break them apart into frames, and animate each frame one by one.

1.Creat anim.xml file in res/drawable folder with following content:

<item android:drawable="@drawable/image&#95;3" android:duration="250" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/image&#95;2" android:duration="250" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/image&#95;1" android:duration="250" />
<item android:drawable="@drawable/image" android:duration="250" />

2.In the layout xml file inside which you want to show the animation:

//... //..

3.@Override public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) { super.onCreate(savedInstanceState); setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

final ImageView animImageView = (ImageView) findViewById(R.id.ivAnimation);
animImageView.setBackgroundResource(R.drawable.anim);
animImageView.post(new Runnable() {
    @Override
    public void run() {
        AnimationDrawable frameAnimation =
            (AnimationDrawable) animImageView.getBackground();
        frameAnimation.start();
    }
});
// ... other code ... 

}

You can use WebView for loading gif images in android. That can be one of the option

As we know that Android does not support Gif animations natively, but we can achieve it by using some libraries. You can use the "Ion" library.

For eclipse, you can download the library. For Studio, Gradle : compile 'com.koushikdutta.ion:ion:2.+'

Android :

ImageView image = (ImageView)findViewById(R.id.imageGif);
Ion.with(image).load("http://mygifimage.gif");

Hope this solves your problem.