liyong03/YLGIFImage
Async GIF image decoder and Image viewer supporting play GIF images. It just use very less memory. observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4567
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 2084
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1764 stars · 199 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
An Objective-C library providing an asynchronous GIF decoder (YLGIFImage) and a UIView-based player (YLImageView) for iOS. It decodes GIF frames on demand to drastically reduce memory usage compared to fully decoded GIFs.
Use cases
- play animated GIFs in an iOS app with low memory usage
- display large GIF files without crashing on memory
- asynchronously decode GIF frames in Objective-C
- show GIF animations in a UIImageView-like view
- reduce memory footprint when rendering GIFs on iOS
When to choose
- you need to display GIFs in an Objective-C iOS app with minimal memory overhead
- large GIFs crash your app when fully decoded
- you want a simple drop-in GIF player via CocoaPods
When to avoid
- you are building in Swift and prefer a native Swift implementation (use YLGIFImage-Swift instead)
- you need animated image support beyond GIF (e.g., APNG, WebP)
- you target modern iOS where SDWebImage or SwiftUI-based solutions suffice
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
image-processing ui-components mobile-development graphics c gif objective-c uikit memory-efficient animation ios swift
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/liyong03/YLGIFImage · fetched 2026-08-28 · d1f7f2262e35
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| liyong03/YLGIFImage | main | 32 |
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