Inspired by https://github.com/bachonk/UIImageView-Letters
An easy, helpful UIImageView extension that generates letter initials as a placeholder for user profile images, with a randomized background color if needed
Add this spec to your podfile:
use_frameworks!pod 'Letters'
Check out the official guide for getting started with CocoaPods.
- Drag the
UIImageView + Letters.swiftfiles into your project - Enjoy!
Call the following methods on any UIImageView instance to set the image:
func setImage(string: String?)func setImage(string: String?, color: UIColor?)func setImage(string: String?, color: UIColor?, circular: Bool)func setImage(string: String?, color: UIColor?, circular: Bool, textAttributes: [String : Any]?)
string is the string used to generate the initials. This should be a user's full name if available.
color is an optional parameter that sets the background color of the image. Pass in nil to have a color automatically generated for you.
isCircular is a boolean parameter that will automatically clip the image to a circle if enabled.
textAttributes is an NSDictionary that allows you to specify font, text color, shadow properties, etc., for the letters text, using the keys found in NSAttributedString.
If you want to keep the same color for a given name, you can use
class func colorForName(name: String?) -> UIColor
userImageView?.setImage(string: "John DOE", color: nil, circular: true)
Using the MIT license. See license file for details.

