React-native: Animated gif loops stops after playing once on ios hardware only

[chrisnojima]

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Environment

React Native Environment Info:
System:
OS: macOS 10.14.1
CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-7700K CPU @ 4.20GHz
Memory: 10.25 GB / 32.00 GB
Shell: 3.0.0 - /usr/local/bin/fish
Binaries:
Node: 11.6.0 - /usr/local/bin/node
Yarn: 1.13.0 - /usr/local/bin/yarn
npm: 6.5.0 - /usr/local/bin/npm
Watchman: 4.9.0 - /usr/local/bin/watchman
SDKs:
iOS SDK:
Platforms: iOS 12.1, macOS 10.14, tvOS 12.1, watchOS 5.1
Android SDK:
API Levels: 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28
Build Tools: 23.0.1, 23.0.2, 25.0.0, 25.0.2, 26.0.0, 26.0.2, 26.0.3, 27.0.3, 28.0.0, 28.0.0, 28.0.2, 28.0.3
System Images: android-16 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-17 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-27 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom, android-28 | Google APIs Intel x86 Atom
IDEs:
Android Studio: 3.2 AI-181.5540.7.32.5056338
Xcode: 10.1/10B61 - /usr/bin/xcodebuild
npmPackages:
react: 16.6.3 => 16.6.3
react-native: 0.57.8 => 0.57.8

Description

This is a regression. There are several auto closed issues related to this (https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/22959, https://github.com/facebook/react-native/issues/22788)
On a real device animated gifs will play once and stop. Previously they used to loop forever correctly. Strangely they loop forever in the simulator.

Reproducible Demo

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Just load an image and source an animated gif.

[chrisnojima]

I put up a fix here: https://github.com/facebook/react-native/pull/22987

[julioxavierr]

This fix is in the latest release, right?
Still happening here @chrisnojima

Code snippet:

<Image source={{ uri: 'https://media.giphy.com/media/xHMIDAy1qkzNS/giphy.gif'}} style={{width: 100, height: 100 }} resizeMode='cover' />

[chrisnojima]

It should be in 58.4 but I'm still running a fork

[julioxavierr]

Nevermind, working here.
Thanks for this contribution.

[sboudouk]

It acutally keep looping but I only need it to play once, how to achieve this, since nothing mention it on the documentation ?

[NikiLee2016]

I solved this problem by using react-native-fast-image. I uploaded my gif to server, and saved the url address, then passed it as a uri to a FastImage Component in my project, it worked!

[p-siriphanthong]

I set my GIF file to play in a loop (set loop count to infinity here). it worked for me ~