Android library to generate image avatar from the first letter of a username. Letter avatar like Gmail Android best practice

Korir Amos

Last update: Sep 25, 2022

Related tags

ImageView bitmap picasso glide avatar-generator avatarview avatar-placeholder first-letter letter-like-gmail

Overview

AvatarImageGenerator

Generate first letter avatar Image like gmail's contact avatar. It generates an drawable that can be be set to an ImageView.

Installation

Add the Following to your gradle file.

         implementation 'com.first.avatargenerator:AvatarImageGenerator:VERSION'

Supports

Using glide or Picasso you can set the drawable to an imageView as a placeholder.

Picasso
Glide

Picasso

 Picasso.get()
    .load("https://brokenfortest")
    .resize(50, 50)
    .placeholder(AvatarGenerator.avatarImage(this, 200, AvatarConstants.CIRCLE, "Android"))
    .into(imageView2)

Glide

 Glide.with(this)
    .load("http://brokenfortest")
    .placeholder(AvatarGenerator.avatarImage(this, 200, AvatarConstants.CIRCLE, "Kotjav"))
    .into(imageView3)

Without any Library

imageView.setImageDrawable(
    AvatarGenerator.avatarImage(
      this,
      200,
      AvatarConstants.RECTANGLE,
      "Skyways"
    )

Color Model The current version supports material colors A 400,700 and 900.

COLOR400
COLOR700
COLOR900

 Picasso.get()
    .load("https://brokenfortest")
    .resize(50, 50)
    .placeholder(AvatarGenerator.avatarImage(this, 200, AvatarConstants.CIRCLE, "Android",AvatarConstants.COLOR900))
    .into(imageView2)

Shape

Circle
Square

AvatarConstants.RECTANGLE,
AvatarConstants.CIRCLE

Comments

notification

Hey, nice libary. How to use it to get the image in notifications?

i use it like this way but its crashing

On all Activities this is working exept in notifications

return try { // Here, use glide or do your things on UiThread val profileImg = GlideApp.with(this) .asBitmap() .load(strURL) .placeholder(AvatarGenerator.avatarImage(this, 200, AvatarConstants.CIRCLE, Prefs.getUserName)) .transform(DkcGlide.circleCrop) .submit(_40_DP, _40_DP) .get() profileImg } catch (e: IOException) { e.printStackTrace() null }

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Gradle doesn't recognize v1.5.0 when I upgrade from v1.4

When I upgrade to 1.5.0 my Gradle doesn't recognize the latest 1.5.0 version. I'm using Android Studio BumbleBee this is the only library that seems I can't be able to update to the latest version.

opened by Breens-Mbaka 1
Moving to mavenCentral()

Hi, I am facing issue after removing JCenter() because everything has been moved to mavenCentral(). Do you have any plans for working on compatibility of this library with mavenCentral()?

opened by irfansarwar12345 1
can not resolve method 'avatarImage' in 'AvatarGenerator'

companion objects are not accessible from java project so AvatarGenerator.avatarImage and AvatarConstants are not accessible. does this library only work in kotlin projects??

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Releases(1.5.0)

1.5.0(Oct 25, 2021)
What's Changed

Builder pattern

Setting text size

Setting background colour

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v1.4(Jul 1, 2020)

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Owner

Korir Amos

Senior Android Engineer

GitHub https://medium.com/@koriramos/android-first-letter-avatar-image-generator-91c1f314eeb4

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