Gifs played very slow in android

Author: univers3Created Jan 31, 2019Updated Jun 30, 2026

Hi everyone, I'm having a strange behaviour with fastimage and android.

A remote GIF put inside an <Image> works pretty well, played at the original speed.

The same remote GIF put inside a <FastImage> is played at variable speed. Seems that the playing speed depends from the network speed and even after the first loop, keeps playing at the same speed. So, it's not due to a buffering stage or similar.

This makes totally useless FastImage for GIFs in Android, because the playing speed is around one tenth of the original.

Someone got the same issue? Any workaround?

Thank you.

"react-native-fast-image": "5.1.1"

Source: DylanVann/react-native-fast-image