Animated Stickers

[dragonofmercy]

Hi,
I want to add a new feature imporovement.
I noticed that if I select a gif, the app don't create and animated sticker.

[lolocomotive]

Might look into this but I have things that I want to implement before (#3) that and it's not the easiest thing to implement since animated sticker packs are handled weirdly by WhatsApp

[lolocomotive]

I started looking into this, and converting animated images/videos into the right size and formats so that they're accepted by WhatsApp is not that easy, and I have 2 options:

• The easy way: just bundle ffmpeg with the app and let it do all the work, only downside: adds 50MB to the APK size (×7)
• The harder way: using MediaCodec and libwebp to get the job done which should add way less to the APK size but would also be a huge mess to implement

I really don't want to make the app download size 50MB so I think I'll try going with the 2nd option but it will take quite long.

[CubeBeveled]

looking forward to this being implemented so i can finally ditch sticker maker!

[lolocomotive]

It's sort of halfway working now, I still have some quirks to figure out and a lot of edge cases to handle. I don't wanna give any ETAs, so "coming soon™"

[lolocomotive]

I got the basics done, and I still want to implement a couple of features before releasing it. And a lot of polishing.

• Create animated stickers from Videos
• Create animated stickers from GIFs
• Trim
• Drawings and text
• Crop & Scale

[lolocomotive]

If you wanna try out the current state of things:
https://github.com/lolocomotive/stickers/releases/tag/v1.3.0-alpha-1