The invention provides an animation playing method and device for a mobile terminal and the mobile terminal. The animation playing method comprises the following steps that an animation playing request is received by an animation playing module, the animation playing module acquires a corresponding animation resource package according to the animation playing request, and the animation playing module analyzes the animation resource package and plays corresponding animations. According to the animation playing method for the mobile terminal, the corresponding animation resource package can be obtained according to the animation playing request received by the animation playing module, the animation resource package is analyzed, so that the corresponding animations are generated and played, the gorgeous animations are displayed for a user, and the sense experience of the user is improved; in addition, animation updating can be achieved simply by updating the animation resource package, animation codes do not need to be updated, in this way, operation is easy, using is convenient, and animation development cost is reduced effectively.