Set a image to a UIlabel after downloading it from internet - ios

Question

I hope you can help me with this one.
I am trying to download an image from a url and the set it to a label. I am able to show it in a imageView but not a label.
This is my code.
func updateImage() {
let ref = Database.database().reference()
let uid = Auth.auth().currentUser?.uid
let usersRef = ref.child("users").child(uid!)
// only need to fetch once so use single event
Database.database().reference().child("Products").queryOrderedByKey().observe(.childAdded, with: { snapshot in
if !snapshot.exists() { return }
//print(snapshot)
let userInfo = snapshot.value as! NSDictionary
print(userInfo)
print(userInfo["name"]!)
let profileUrl = userInfo["photoURL"] as! String
print(profileUrl)
let storageRef = Storage.storage().reference(forURL: profileUrl)
storageRef.downloadURL(completion: { (url, error) in
do {
let data = try Data(contentsOf: url!)
let image = UIImage(data: data as Data)
self.productPhoto.image = image
}
catch _ {
// Error handling
}
})
})
}
I have tried many things like this
self.swipeLabel.backgroundColor = UIColor(patternImage: UIImage(named: image))
Thank you in advance

Answer 1

Try this as I think what you are trying to do is setting the Background image to UILabel.
Let's say you have got image from data as:
let data = try Data(contentsOf: url!)
let image = UIImage(data: data as Data)
Now you can set this image to UILabel with text by using the Attributed string as following :
let imageAttachment = NSTextAttachment()
imageAttachment.image = image
//Set bound to reposition
let imageOffsetY:CGFloat = -5.0;
imageAttachment.bounds = CGRect(x: 0, y: imageOffsetY, width: imageAttachment.image!.size.width, height: imageAttachment.image!.size.height)
//Create string with attachment
let attachmentString = NSAttributedString(attachment: imageAttachment)
//Initialize mutable string
let completeText = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "")
//Add image to mutable string
completeText.append(attachmentString)
//Add your text to mutable string
let textAfterIcon = NSMutableAttributedString(string: "Using attachment.bounds!")
completeText.append(textAfterIcon)
self.label.textAlignment = .center;
self.label.attributedText = completeText;
or If you want to set image to background then you can try adding imageview as UILabel's subview or vice versa as following :
label.addSubview(imageView) or imageView.addSubview(label)
Also you can try this to directly set image to Background of the UILabel :
label.backgroundColor = UIColor(patternImage: UIImage(named: "backgroundImage")!)