UIImageView: applying multiple UIViewContentMode properties to one UIImageView? - swift

How can I add UIViewContentMode.center to this UIImageView while also keeping .scaleAspectFill?
func insertImage() {
let theImageView = UIImageView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: view.frame.width, height: 300))
theImageView.image = #imageLiteral(resourceName: "coolimage")
theImageView.contentMode = UIViewContentMode.scaleAspectFill
view.addSubview(theImageView)
}
Furthermore, can somebody explain to me what the "view" exactly is in the last line "view.addSubview(theImageView)"? Is it the mysterious "view hierarchy" that I read about? Why can't I simply initialize the UIImageView? Why must it be bound to something called "view" that I haven't explicitly created? There is only a UIViewController and a UIImageView so far.

As far as I know, you can't set content mode to both aspect fit and center. However, center will do what aspect fit does providing the image size is smaller than the size of the imageView. If not, use aspect fit. The following code ought to allow you to differentiate between the two:
if (theImageView.bounds.size.width > UIImage(named: "coolimage")?.size.width && theImageView.bounds.size.height > UIImage(named: "coolimage")?.size.height) {
theImageView.contentMode = .aspectFit
} else {
theImageView.contentMode = .center
}
As for the second part of your question, I'll refer you to this thread, which has a fairly comprehensive explanation of UIViewController vs UIView. Hope that helps.

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how to make UIVIEW in custom style?

i have to make this type of UIView and there is a image view in the top.
i am new in swift so kindly suggest me the best Answer for it.
I guess that there are many resources on how to design views in swift. But to give you quick advice, the first method is use storyboard and place an image with proper constraints.
The second one is to do it programmatically, by implementing UIView variable and assigning an image to id. Something like this:
private func constructView() {
let myImage = UIImageView(image: "name of image inserted to assets folder in xcode")
myImage.frame = CGRect(x: 200, y: 64, width: 30, height: 30)
container.addSubview(myImage)
}

Button with multiple accessible labels and images in Swift

I need to create custom button class, reuse it 4 times and I also need to override its text and image name. My next problem is how to set its frame somehow dynamically (now it is static), because I need this 4 buttons in grid 2x2.
I'm trying to create button exactly like this: https://imgur.com/a/dNhUGhc.
I have coded this but it is static and in ViewController I can't edit (override) these labels and image name. And if I tried to reuse this class I would have them in the same spot, because frame settings is exactly the same.
I'm subclassing UIButton. If something more suitable exists just let me know.
Code for adding label
// city label
let cityRect = CGRect(x: 0, y: 20, width: buttonWidth, height: 25)
let cityLabel = UILabel(frame: cityRect)
cityLabel.text = "Label"
cityLabel.font = UIFont.systemFont(ofSize: 17, weight: .semibold)
cityLabel.textAlignment = .center
addSubview(cityLabel)
Code for adding image
// image
let imageView = UIImageView(image: UIImage(named: "something"))
imageView.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 60, width: 40, height: 40)
imageView.center.x = self.center.x - 20
addSubview(imageView)
Can you guys help me? Thanks
It looks like what you need to do is use an IBOutlet. Basically, an IBOutlet will give you a reference within your code (custom UIView or UIViewController subclass) to the button that you've setup in xib or storyboard. Then you can make any changes or adjustments that you want to it at runtime.
Check this out to learn more about IBOutlets and how to set them up in your project.

How to make a stretchable header view collection view [Swift]

In my swift app I've a collection view and I want to creare a stretchable header view like this in table view: https://medium.com/if-let-swift-programming/how-to-create-a-stretchable-tableviewheader-in-ios-ee9ed049aba3
You already answered your question yourself with that article link, unless I miss something.
I will copy & paste for you and others that may have the same question, if it helps, because it even ships with a github link (kudos to Abhimuralidharan # Medium):
Create a tableview with the basic datasource and delegate methods which are required to simply load the table with some data.
Set the tableview’s contentInset property:
tableView.contentInset = UIEdgeInsetsMake(300, 0, 0, 0)
Here, I set the top value as 300 which is a calculated number which I will set as the initial normal height for the header imageview. Now, that we set the contentInset , the tableview’s frame will start at (0,0) and the first cell will start at (0,300).
Now, create an imageview with height 300 and add it to the current View above the tableview.
imageView.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, height: 300)
imageView.image = UIImage.init(named: “poster”)
imageView.contentMode = .scaleAspectFill
imageView.clipsToBounds = true
view.addSubview(imageView)
Then, add the following code in the scrollview delegate method scrollViewDidScroll which gets called every time the tableview is scrolled.
func scrollViewDidScroll (_ scrollView: UIScrollView) {
let y = 300 — (scrollView.contentOffset.y + 300)
let height = min(max(y, 60), 400)
imageView.frame = CGRect(x: 0, y: 0, width: UIScreen.main.bounds.size.width, height: height)
}
Compile and run the code. Full source code is available in github.

Programmatically place partial image over another in UIView using Swift 3

I just started working on Swift last week and i need a suggestion if the following approach is right ways of laying partial image on top of another image.
I have a UIView in which I am creating 3 images programmatically. Left arrow image, middle mobile image and right arrow image as shown below. Can I partially place arrow images 50% on the mobile image?
I have tried:
func setupUI(){
let mobileImage = UIImage(named: "mobile")
let arrowImage = UIImage(named: "arrow")
middleView = UIImageView(frame: CGRect(x: arrowImage!.size.width/2, y:0 , width:mobileImage!.size.width, height:mobileImage!.size.height))
middleView.image = mobileImage
middleView.layer.borderWidth = 1.0
middleView.layer.cornerRadius = 5.0
self.addSubview(middleView)
let yForArrow = mobileImage!.size.height - arrowImage!.size.height
leftArrow = UIImageView(frame: CGRect(x: 0, y:yForArrow, width:arrowImage!.size.width, height:arrowImage!.size.height))
leftArrow.image = arrowImage
self.addSubview(leftArrow)
let rightArrowX = mobileImage!.size.width
rightView = UIImageView(frame: CGRect(x: rightArrowX, y:yForArrow, width:arrowImage!.size.width, height:arrowImage!.size.height))
rightView.image = arrowImage
self.addSubview(rightView)
}
*At start it was not working, as i forgot to add setupUI() in init method. As shown in answer bellow.
Is setting frame correct way of doing it OR i should be using constraints?
To me it looks bad approach as i am hard coding the numbers in CGRect.
*This image is created in MS paint to show what it should look on iPhone.
I found the problem i missed adding setupUI() in init method.
SetupUI programatically adds images on UIView. As it was missing so no image was appearing in the iPhone simulator.
override init(frame: CGRect) {
super.init(frame: frame)
setupUI() // Code to add images in UIView
}

Zoom/Scroll through parts of image in a scrollview

I have an image which I divide into pages, such that each page shows a zoomed rectangle of the image. I think I should be able to do that with a UIImageView in a ScrollView, such that next page zooms the view to a given point. However I can't seem to get it to work.
This is the code for loading the image and setting the zoom on the first part (i.e. the first page) into scrollview:
scrollView.isPagingEnabled = true
scrollView.contentSize = CGSize(width: 1280, height: 1920)
scrollView.showsHorizontalScrollIndicator = false
scrollView.delegate = self as UIScrollViewDelegate
let image = UIImage(named: imageName)
let imageView = UIImageView(image: image!)
imageView.frame.origin.x = 0
scrollView.addSubview(imageView)
scrollView.zoom(toPoint: CGPoint(x:800,y:800), scale: 1, animated: false)
The image is obviously much larger than the size of the scrollview, which is 375/309.
I'm probably missing a lot here, or maybe there's a completely different way of achieving this.
the zoom function is borrowed from https://gist.github.com/TimOliver/71be0a8048af4bd86ede.
Thanks,
Z.
It seems like you'll want to set the content offset rather than zooming to a point. Try:
scrollView.contentOffset = CGPoint(x:800,y:800)