Android Question CompressedBC and a new Animated GIF encoder library

[LucaMs]

I tested this new library:
Animated GIF encoder

It created a gif file about 4 times bigger than I can get using LICEcap.

Do you think I could use CompressedBC to reduce the gif file size?

And... how? The library has a method to create each frame which requires a B4XBitmap.

 

[Erel]

No. CompressedBC will not help here. It is an in-memory format.

Make sure to use LoadBitmapResize when you add the frames.

 

[LucaMs]

Make sure to use LoadBitmapResize when you add the frames.

I need to create the bitmap at runtime (and the size is fixed), so I use the Snapshot method of a Pane.

 

[Erel]

so I use the Snapshot method of a Pane.

If it is in B4A then the snapshot can be very large because of the device scale.

bmp = bmp.Resize(bmp.Width / xui.Scale, bmp.Height / xui.Scale, False)

 

[LucaMs]

If it is in B4A

I was going to specify, but since I wrote "Pane" I thought it would be superfluous

Thank you, Erel; I fear it is necessary to optimize that library.