A simple, asynchronous, network based avatar library for iOS and OSX. This makes using network based avatars simple, while still having great performance.

Examples

A subclass for UIImageView and NSImageView is provided to make using DCAvatar very simple.

DCImageView *imageView = [[DCImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(70, 70, 60, 60)];
imageView.avatarValue = @"http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/password_reuse.png";
[self.view addSubview:imageView];

Also supported are domain via meta tag scraping:

DCImageView *imageView = [[DCImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(70, 70, 60, 60)];
imageView.avatarValue = @"http://github.com";
[self.view addSubview:imageView];

and what is great avatar support without a little gravatar?

DCImageView *imageView = [[DCImageView alloc] initWithFrame:CGRectMake(70, 70, 60, 60)];
imageView.avatarValue = @"[email protected]";
[self.view addSubview:imageView];

Other notable features:

• Completely asynchronous
• Memory and disk caching that is automatically pruned
  
• Does not send multiple requests for same url
• Has both iOS and OSX support.
• gravatar support.
• domain meta tag support.
• supports showing a progress view.

Install

The recommended approach for installing DCAvatar is via the CocoaPods package manager, as it provides flexible dependency management and dead simple installation.

via CocoaPods

Install CocoaPods if not already available:

$ [sudo] gem install cocoapods
$ pod setup

Change to the directory of your Xcode project, and Create and Edit your Podfile and add DCAvatar:

$ cd /path/to/MyProject
$ touch Podfile
$ edit Podfile
platform :ios, '5.0' 
# Or platform :osx, '10.8'
pod 'DCAvatar'

Install into your project:

$ pod install

Open your project in Xcode from the .xcworkspace file (not the usual project file)

Requirements

DCAvatar requires at least iOS 5/Mac OSX 10.8 or above.

License

DCAvatar is license under the Apache License.

Contact

Dalton Cherry

• https://github.com/daltoniam
• http://twitter.com/daltoniam