overlaying text on image using swift

Question

I am trying to overlay some text on an image using Swift and am looking at this code here: (src: How do I add text to an image in iOS Swift)

This places the text right i

Answer 1

Details

xCode 9.1, Swift 4

Solution

extension UIView

extension UIView {

    func copyObject<T: UIView> () -> T? {
        let archivedData = NSKeyedArchiver.archivedData(withRootObject: self)
        return NSKeyedUnarchiver.unarchiveObject(with: archivedData) as? T
    }
}

extension UIImage

 extension UIImage {

    typealias EditSubviewClosure<T: UIView> = (_ parentSize: CGSize, _ viewToAdd: T)->()

    func with<T: UIView>(view: T, editSubviewClosure: EditSubviewClosure<T>) -> UIImage {

        if let copiedView = view.copyObject() as? T {
            UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(size)

            let basicSize = CGRect(origin: .zero, size: size)
            draw(in: basicSize)
            editSubviewClosure(size, copiedView)
            copiedView.draw(basicSize)

            let newImage = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext()
            UIGraphicsEndImageContext()
            return newImage!
        }
        return self

    }
}

extension UIImageView

 extension UIImageView {

    enum ImageAddingMode {
        case changeOriginalImage
        case addSubview
        case addCopiedSubview
    }

    func drawOnCurrentImage<T: UIView>(view: T, mode: ImageAddingMode, editSubviewClosure: @escaping UIImage.EditSubviewClosure<T>) {

        guard let image = image else {
            return
        }

        let addSubView: (T) -> () = { view in
            editSubviewClosure(self.frame.size, view)
            self.addSubview(view)
        }

        switch mode {
            case .changeOriginalImage:
                self.image = image.with(view: view, editSubviewClosure: editSubviewClosure)

            case .addSubview:
                addSubView(view)

            case .addCopiedSubview:
                if let copiedView = view.copyObject() as? T {
                    addSubView(copiedView)
                }
        }
    }
}

Usage

Sample 1

func sample1(label: UILabel) {
    imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
    imageView.image = UIImage(named: "wall")?.with(view: label) { (parentSize, viewToAdd) in
        print("parentSize: \(parentSize)")
        viewToAdd.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 40)
        viewToAdd.textColor = .yellow
        viewToAdd.bounds = CGRect(x: 40, y: 40, width: 200, height: 40)
    }
}

Sample 2

func sample2(label: UILabel) {
    imageView.image = UIImage(named: "wall")
    imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
    imageView.drawOnCurrentImage(view: label, mode: .changeOriginalImage) { (parentSize, viewToAdd) in
        print("parentSize: \(parentSize)")
        viewToAdd.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 40)
        viewToAdd.textColor = .yellow
        viewToAdd.textAlignment = .right
        let width: CGFloat = 200
        let height: CGFloat = 30
        let indent: CGFloat = 40
        viewToAdd.bounds = CGRect(x: parentSize.width - width - indent, y: parentSize.height - height - indent, width: width, height: height)
    }
}

Sample 3

func sample3(label: UILabel) {
    imageView.image = UIImage(named: "wall")
    imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFill
    imageView.drawOnCurrentImage(view: label, mode: .addSubview) { (parentSize, viewToAdd) in
        print("parentSize: \(parentSize)")
        viewToAdd.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
        viewToAdd.textColor = .yellow
        viewToAdd.frame = CGRect(x: 40, y: 40, width: 200, height: 20)
    }
}

Sample 4

func sample4(label: UILabel) {
    imageView.image = UIImage(named: "wall")
    imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFill
    imageView.drawOnCurrentImage(view: label, mode: .addCopiedSubview) { (parentSize, viewToAdd) in
        print("parentSize: \(parentSize)")
        viewToAdd.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
        viewToAdd.textColor = .yellow
        viewToAdd.frame = CGRect(x: 40, y: 40, width: 200, height: 20)
    }
}

Full sample

Do not forget to add the solution code here

import UIKit

class ViewController: UIViewController {

    let imageView = UIImageView(frame: CGRect(x: 50, y: 50, width: 300, height: 300))

    override func viewDidLoad() {
        super.viewDidLoad()
        // Do any additional setup after loading the view, typically from a nib.
        let label = UILabel(frame: CGRect(x: 20, y: 20, width: 80, height: 30))
        label.text = "Blablabla"
        label.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 20)
        label.textColor = .black
        view.addSubview(label)

        sample1(label: label)
        //sample2(label: label)
        //sample3(label: label)
        //sample4(label: label)

        imageView.clipsToBounds = true
        view.addSubview(imageView)
    }

    func sample1(label: UILabel) {
        imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
        imageView.image = UIImage(named: "wall")?.with(view: label) { (parentSize, viewToAdd) in
            print("parentSize: \(parentSize)")
            viewToAdd.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 40)
            viewToAdd.textColor = .yellow
            viewToAdd.bounds = CGRect(x: 40, y: 40, width: 200, height: 20)
        }
    }

    func sample2(label: UILabel) {
        imageView.image = UIImage(named: "wall")
        imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFit
        imageView.drawOnCurrentImage(view: label, mode: .changeOriginalImage) { (parentSize, viewToAdd) in
            print("parentSize: \(parentSize)")
            viewToAdd.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 40)
            viewToAdd.textColor = .yellow
            viewToAdd.textAlignment = .right
            let width: CGFloat = 200
            let height: CGFloat = 30
            let indent: CGFloat = 40
            viewToAdd.bounds = CGRect(x: parentSize.width - width - indent, y: parentSize.height - height - indent, width: width, height: height)
        }
    }

    func sample3(label: UILabel) {
        imageView.image = UIImage(named: "wall")
        imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFill
        imageView.drawOnCurrentImage(view: label, mode: .addSubview) { (parentSize, viewToAdd) in
            print("parentSize: \(parentSize)")
            viewToAdd.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
            viewToAdd.textColor = .yellow
            viewToAdd.frame = CGRect(x: 40, y: 40, width: 200, height: 20)
        }
    }

    func sample4(label: UILabel) {
        imageView.image = UIImage(named: "wall")
        imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFill
        imageView.drawOnCurrentImage(view: label, mode: .addCopiedSubview) { (parentSize, viewToAdd) in
            print("parentSize: \(parentSize)")
            viewToAdd.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 16)
            viewToAdd.textColor = .yellow
            viewToAdd.frame = CGRect(x: 40, y: 40, width: 200, height: 20)
        }
    }
}

Answer 2

Great answer Vasily!

but in my situation I needed to add these fixes.

TEXT IS VERY SMALL

I ran a situation where the text was super small, maybe because the UIImage size was too small for the selected font of 14, so I fixed this by giving a huge font of 120.

TEXT IS NOT DISPLAYED AT THE GIVEN CGPOINT

In the same context of a big UIImage size, the position given to the extension was misplacing the text, the fix: added these 2 lets with the ratio of height and width computed and then multiplied for x,y points.

let widthRatio = size.width/UIScreen.main.bounds.width
let heightRatio = size.height/UIScreen.main.bounds.height

Hope that helps anybody!