GIF file - now animation is preserved

[Koichi_Tsuji]

This may not be a tips and tricks, but to share what we found.

When we uploaded GIF file image through AppSheet app, more precisely, upload GIF from Image type column, it becomes static images, not a GIF actually. In the past, we hosted GIF image file elsewhere and used the public URL to display the GIF image within the app, but we found the GIF files saved from AppSheet app and saved to the cloud is actually rendered as GIF. Good.

• This GIF was saved / uloaded from Image type field.

@Takuya_Miyai
@Kirk_Masden

[Kirk_Masden]

Wow! This is very good indeed.

By the way, for people who are learning about gifs in AppSheet for the first time, I recommend looking at this:

Animated gifs Tips & Tricks 💡

This is not an original tip – just recycling a good idea shared with us by @tsuji_koichi: I’ve been making gifs in the way I learned from Koichi to create little animations that illustrate of how to do things in my app. The gifs go into image columns. Here’s one I made today: [Sync.2020-08-28 00_31_30] https://drive.google.com/uc?id=1IfEamThBWZR4gnaJTCuOViz8mmmKKgRd

I followed up with this as a workaround for how to deal with the problem of gif animation stopping because it is used in more than one spot in your app:

Animated gif issue and workaround Tips & Tricks 💡

This tip is an extension of my earlier tip on how to add animated gifs to your apps: Once again, thanks to @tsuji_koichi for showing me how to use animated gifs in the first place. I’ve encountered an issue in which using an animated gif in more than one spot caused the animation to stop in the second spot. First, to help you understand the issue I encountered, I’ll use a gif to explain why I was using the same gif in two different spots: [sdf.2021-02-25 10_46_55] These images are from th…

For gif files that the creator wants to make part of the documentation in the app (to illustrate things for users), I suspect that the old method (putting stuff up on Google drive) may still be best. It is great to know, however, that ordinary gifs can be uploaded by users and that they will work.

By the way, I learned almost everything I know about gifs in AppSheet from @tsuji_koichi . I added a couple of little observations and clarifications in posts I made that followed up on his but he got everything started. Thanks Koichi!

[Wahyu_Alamsyah]

I’ve tried uploading the gif in the image column on the appsheet, but it’s only a static image, if I may be more detailed, please provide a more detailed explanation, these tips are very good, thank you sir…

[Kirk_Masden]

Sorry that you didn't get an answer right away.  I have verified that uploading a gif through the normal interface in an app I built leads to a still image -- just one frame of the original animation.  However, if you put a valid URL to a gif file (one that you have on your server, for example) in the appropriate cell in your spreadsheet (the cell in the image column), it will work.