Animated Images: Android

Hello I was wondering if Titanium can display my .gif file for the android, I don't want to use the conventional .png file for the splash screen, could you give me any suggestions about approaching this problem?

here is how it animates by pure JavaScript (for websites)

var cSpeed=9;
    var cWidth=228;
    var cHeight=228;
    var cTotalFrames=18;
    var cFrameWidth=228;
    var cImageSrc='images/sprites.gif';
 
    var cImageTimeout=false;
    var cIndex=0;
    var cXpos=0;
    var SECONDS_BETWEEN_FRAMES=0;
 
    function startAnimation(){
 
        document.getElementById('loaderImage').style.backgroundImage='url('+cImageSrc+')';
        document.getElementById('loaderImage').style.width=cWidth+'px';
        document.getElementById('loaderImage').style.height=cHeight+'px';
 
        //FPS = Math.round(100/(maxSpeed+2-speed));
        FPS = Math.round(100/cSpeed);
        SECONDS_BETWEEN_FRAMES = 1 / FPS;
 
        setTimeout('continueAnimation()', SECONDS_BETWEEN_FRAMES/1000);
 
    }
 
    function continueAnimation(){
 
        cXpos += cFrameWidth;
        //increase the index so we know which frame of our animation we are currently on
        cIndex += 1;
 
        //if our cIndex is higher than our total number of frames, we're at the end and should restart
        if (cIndex >= cTotalFrames) {
            cXpos =0;
            cIndex=0;
        }
 
        document.getElementById('loaderImage').style.backgroundPosition=(-cXpos)+'px 0';
 
        setTimeout('continueAnimation()', SECONDS_BETWEEN_FRAMES*1000);
    }
 
    function imageLoader(s, fun)//Pre-loads the sprites image
    {
        clearTimeout(cImageTimeout);
        cImageTimeout=0;
        genImage = new Image();
        genImage.onload=function (){cImageTimeout=setTimeout(fun, 0)};
        genImage.onerror=new Function('alert(\'Could not load the image\')');
        genImage.src=s;
    }
 
    //The following code starts the animation
    new imageLoader(cImageSrc, 'startAnimation()');

if you have any further questions, please ask..