Animated Gif in widget

I am currently working on my first android project and I'm pretty new to the Android SDK. I want to have a widget on the home screen that will display an animated gif of a weather radar map. I already have it working inside the app inside a webview but I believe I read that you cant use webviews inside a remoteview for an android widget.

If anyone could suggest how I would go about doing this it would be greatly appreciated.