PhotoView VS GifImageView

Compare PhotoView vs GifImageView and see what are their differences.

PhotoView

Implementation of ImageView for Android that supports zooming, by various touch gestures. (by chrisbanes)

GifImageView

Android ImageView that handles animated GIF images (by felipecsl)
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PhotoView GifImageView
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18,684 1,162
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0.0 1.1
about 2 years ago about 1 year ago
Java Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 MIT License
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PhotoView

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GifImageView

Posts with mentions or reviews of GifImageView. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects.

We haven't tracked posts mentioning GifImageView yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing PhotoView and GifImageView you can also consider the following projects:

TouchImageView - Adds touch functionality to Android ImageView.

subsampling-scale-image-view - Android library (AAR). Highly configurable, easily extendable deep zoom view for displaying huge images without loss of detail. Perfect for photo galleries, maps, building plans etc.

gesture-imageview - Implements pinch-zoom, rotate, pan as an ImageView for Android 2.1+

ImageViewZoom - Android ImageView widget with zoom and pan capabilities

CircularImageView - Custom view for circular images in Android while maintaining the best draw performance

CircleImageView - A circular ImageView for Android

android-crop - Android library project for cropping images

gif-movie-view - Android View widget for displaying GIF animations.

android-gpuimage - Android filters based on OpenGL (idea from GPUImage for iOS)

android-shape-imageview - Custom shaped android imageview components