Frame Animation or Movie file for short interactive "movie" Android Application

Question

Hello,

In it's simplest explanation, I'm making a really small "interactive movie" app on Android.

In a nut shell, when the app is loaded, it will play a short movie (maybe a few seconds at most @ 12-24fps). I will then have 2 buttons displayed on the screen, and depending on what button is pressed, it I will play another short movie (5-10 seconds). While waiting for the user to make a decision, the movie will be looping.

The movie source is stop-motion photography so it's already chopped up into frames.

My question here is if I should use a Frame Animation technique, or if I should use a Movie player for this. All in all perhaps there's less than 100 still frames that make up the stop-motion. I was going to go the Frame Animation route, but I wasn't sure if having so many individual frames would kill the app so I thought I'd post here to see if anyone had any insight.

Thanks!

Answer 1

After trial and error, it would seem that if you need to play a lot of large frames in your app, going the movie file route will be a better route. I had decent success on Android 2.2 with the frame animation technique, but when I tried it on Android 1.5 I ran into major "out of memory" exceptions and ended up having to scrap that method and instead, use a movie file of which I seek to different frames of the movie file to give me a similar effect.