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

Updated :

     func imageWith(name: String?) -> UIImage? {
        let frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: 50, height: 50)
        let nameLabel = UILabel(frame: frame)
        nameLabel.textAlignment = .center
        nameLabel.backgroundColor = .lightGray
        nameLabel.textColor = .white
        nameLabel.font = UIFont.boldSystemFont(ofSize: 20)
        var initials = ""
        if let initialsArray = name?.components(separatedBy: " ") {
            if let firstWord = initialsArray.first {
                if let firstLetter = firstWord.first {
                    initials += String(firstLetter).capitalized }
            }
            if initialsArray.count > 1, let lastWord = initialsArray.last {
                if let lastLetter = lastWord.first { initials += String(lastLetter).capitalized
                }
            }
        } else {
            return nil
        }
        nameLabel.text = initials
        UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(frame.size)
        if let currentContext = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext() {
            nameLabel.layer.render(in: currentContext)
            let nameImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
            return nameImage
        }
        return nil
    }

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