I've been looking on the web to find some example code on how to display and animate GIF images on the iPhone, but to no avail.

I only found this PHP example which uses this PHP GIF decoder class from L?°szl?? Zsidi.

Crudely and quick-and-dirtily, I have converted that very PHP code to Obj-C so you can now decode the frames from animated GIF images in an iPhone app.

After decoding, you end up with an NSArray of NSData objects containing each frame of the animated GIF image. Another NSArray of NSNumbers contains the time delay for each frame.

Now you are on your own to save the frames to *.gif files and then animating them using an NSTimer or whatever pleases you.

Please enjoy my rubbish code and optimize and improve at will.

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