Yes, video could be an option as well 
Andreas
What is the Use case here? Why do you want to make animated GIFās in your app? Do you intend to display them in your app? Do you want to upload them to giphy or something? Are you just looking for animated displays in your app?
What is the end goal?
Rob
The use case is to create animated gifs im my photobooth app from a bunch of images taken with the camera.
After the gif is created it should be presented to the user (I already managed this by using a webview).
If the user is happy with the gif he has some sharing options:
Ā - share vie email
Ā - share via sms (gif or url to uploaded gif)
Ā - share via facebook (gif or url to uploaded gif)
Ā - share via twitter (gif or url to uploaded gif)
ā¦ and maybe some others coming soonā¦
I already managed everything, but for gif creation I created a php rest service sitting on my (external) server or a raspbery.
This is working fine as long as I have a fast internet connection, but to avoid some downtime or performance issues I would like
to create the gif in corona on the device within the app.
does that make sense to you?
regards
Andreas
Using that rest service is your best bet.
already thought about that, but this means that my app will only work if I have a solid and stable internet connection.
I think this is not what a client wants.
A client/user wants the images or gifās to be stored on the device if the internet goes down, but the app has still to work as usual.
Once the connection is reastablished the images should be uploaded in the backā¦
Using rest service in this case is a solution, but far not the best ā¦for me
Think I need to keep on investigatingā¦anywaysā¦thankās so far
Ā
Since you have Enterprise, you may want to consider seeing what you can do on the native side. There are no feature requests for GIFās that I could find at https://feedback.coronalabs.com and we have no plans to add it. There are probably existing iOS and Android tutorials out there on how to make this work.
Rob
@RobĀ
As GIFās are making a HUGE come back Corona should look at adding it. Everyone are now support GIF additions, Redit etcā¦
I was just thinking of an app to do something things with multiple Pictures to create and send so I logged in and searched for this exact thing.
It sucks that we cant do animated GIFS but lets add that as a request enhancement 
Larry.
I have GIF files loading, but not yet animating (and this is first and foremost just a matter of getting around to it), along with all sorts of other formats. (See my little blurb on FreeImage here for some info.) Iāve not even tried saving, but itās certainly available in the API Iām binding. This is a definite work-in-progress, but let me know if youād like to give it a spin.
Hey StarCrunch, Iām really interested in your free image module and the gif exportā¦ Any progress on your work? Thank you!
@PXL artificer
I havenāt gotten terribly much farther, but Iāll see if I canāt change that soon. (If I can get a few plugins out the door in the near future that should improve my prospects.) It might already work (ha!) and I just need to put together a test case.
(Iāve also wrapped stb_image and stb_image_write from here as lighter-weight alternatives, since FreeImage, being of a kitchen sink natures, is pretty large, but that only has load support for GIF.)
Unfortunately, starting in a couple hours, travel and a family event are going to occupy me probably clear through the weekend.
@StarCrunch sounds great!
Does it work on iOS? Iām not sure but I was reading on another post you were testing it on OSX for now?
Anyway, Iāll send you a DM to talk about it better (Iām interested on that plugin especially for my new 8bit style camera app famicam64.com )
Thank you!
Well, it builds for iOS, at least. Havenāt had a chance to do any testing.
Iāve done a little investigation about how to reduce the FreeImage binary as well, to target only a few standout file formats and make a āLiteā version. Anyhow, I can send you binaries and my current tests once Iām back on my feet; apologies as I go AWOL for a while, citing the above reasons.Ā