Viber already allows sharing GIF files. For when in WhatsApp?

Although the GIF go back to 1987, the social networking and instant messaging applications have been awarded a second life to this type of animated images. And it is that they have become a way to express and portray an infinite number of situations from files relatively light. Maybe that is why they’re publications very recurrent in media such as Facebook and from now through applications as Viber. Support for GIF images to this instant messaging network brings back to the fore the debate. For when you support WhatsApp?

You possibly associate GIF files to your Facebookwall. Also on any web page since it is a resource used by your capacity to express and portray a situation in a file of little weight. Whether in the form of meme, advertising, or otherwise, the GIF have become a form of expression more that joins the emoji, emoticons and other graphic media. As such, its popularization in social networks conducive news as the arrival of the support for the GIF in apps like the Viber.

How to make an animated GIF with the mobile (video tutorial)

GIF in Viber

So we can see it in the section on the last update changes received by the app in Google Play, where among other improvements as the backup and restore option appears the compatibility with animated GIF. And it is that now users may include this kind of files in their conversations and group chat to emphasize messages or to – as it happens in most cases – animate the chat with funny images. In this way not only the users of Messenger, Instagram or Twitter can make use of dynamic image as Giphybanks, but rather of Viber joined the growing demand for this type of content.

GIPHY becomes Google Play so that you can share GIFs million through your social networks

And WhatsApp?

News like this reflotan the most recurring question. When it is possible to send native GIFs from WhatsApp? Although the application of most popular Instant Messenger of the globe has gained ground in what functions and security concerns, gaps still exist. In fact, users of the platform still waiting landing of the video calls, something that is taken for granted, but that still is not implemented in the official application.

Applications for creating, editing and sharing GIF animated from the mobile

In the case of the GIF is even more infuriating because to date we have not heard nor even the Beta version – the prelude to the novelties introduced in the public version -. Meanwhile, we have at our disposal only third-party applications that allow us, through a “patch”, to enjoy the GIF on WhatsApp.

WP-Appbox: Viber (free^*, Google Play) →

WP-Appbox: Viber (free^*, App Store) →