Convert Gif To Png Programmatically

I have a GIF that I am grabbing from a website (http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/RadarImg/N0R/) and wanting to display to the user. I am building to Jelly Bean (4.1) and in my search

Solution 1:

After changing my question a bit, I found the answer through the almighty Google here:

http://gayashan-a.blogspot.com/2012/02/android-how-to-display-gif-image-in.html

Summarized here:

public Bitmap getBitmap(String url)
{
    Bitmapbmp=null;
    try
    {
        HttpClientclient=newDefaultHttpClient();
        URIimageUri=newURI(url);
        HttpGetreq=newHttpGet();
        req.setURI(imageUri);
        HttpResponseresp= client.execute(req);
        bmp = BitmapFactory.decodeStream(resp.getEntity().getContent());            
    }
    catch(URISyntaxException ex)
    {           
        Log.e("ERROR", ex.getMessage());
    }
    catch(ClientProtocolException ex)
    {
        Log.e("ERROR", ex.getMessage());
    }
    catch(IllegalStateException ex)
    {
        Log.e("ERROR", ex.getMessage());
    }
    catch(IOException ex)
    {
        Log.e("ERROR", ex.getMessage());
    }

    return bmp;
}

This decodes it to a Bitmap which can be compressed to a PNG ...

BitmapmCurrentRadar= getBitmap("http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/RadarImg/N0R/ABC_N0R_0.gif");
ByteArrayOutputStreamstream=newByteArrayOutputStream();     
mCurrentRadar.compress(Bitmap.CompressFormat.PNG, 100, stream);

... or can be immediately used in an ImageView ...

ImageViewimageView= (ImageView) findeViewById(R.id.radarImageView);
imageView.setImageBitmap(getBitmap("http://radar.weather.gov/ridge/RadarImg/N0R/ABC_N0R_0.gif");