Flip UIImageViews for Right to Left Languages

Question

iOS automatically flips the entire ViewController when using a RTL language like Arabic and does a great job with most of the layout, especially text. The default b

Answer 1

Swift 5

If you want to individualize the image flip, you can register each image with the direction you want since the layout direction is a trait:

let leftToRight = UITraitCollection(layoutDirection: .leftToRight)
let rightToLeft = UITraitCollection(layoutDirection: .rightToLeft)
let imageAsset = UIImageAsset()
let leftToRightImage = UIImage(named: "leftToRightImage")!
let rightToLeftImage = UIImage(named: "rightToLeftImage")!
imageAsset.register(leftToRightImage, with: leftToRight)
imageAsset.register(rightToLeftImage, with: rightToLeft)

This is the same as configuring it in the asset catalogue as @SergioM answered.