Make images with name initials like Gmail in Swift programmatically for iOS

Question

I need to display a profile pic of every user corresponding to his name in a UITableView. Until the image is downloaded I need to show an image with his name\'s first alphabet l

Answer 1

This is perfect for the UIImageView: https://github.com/bachonk/UIImageView-Letters. Basically, it creates a UIImage with, at the center, the initial letter of the first and last word of the input. The background color can be random or assigned.

Here's an example of what this category can do:

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You may also want to check this out: https://github.com/bofiaza/IPImage