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

Simple little extension, can be customised as needed.

public extension UIImageView {

    func addInitials(first: String, second: String) {
        let initials = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: self.bounds.width, height: self.bounds.height))
        initials.center = CGPoint(x: self.bounds.width / 2, y: self.bounds.height / 2)
        initials.textAlignment = .center
        initials.text = first + " " + second
        initials.textColor = .black
        self.addSubview(initials)
    }
}