unable to set the image view to be circle - ios

Question

i need to make the profile photo image circle (similar to whats app)
The cell i use is UITableViewCellStyleDefault
here's my code:
User *user = [DBHelper fetchUserWithUserID:userID];
cell.imageView.image = [Helper imageWithBlob:user.profile.thumbnailPhotoBlob defaultImageFile:FILE_DEFAULT_PHOTO];
cell.imageView.layer.cornerRadius = cell.imageView.frame.size.height /2;
cell.imageView.clipsToBounds = YES;
cell.imageView.layer.masksToBounds = YES;
But the result image view is still a square
EDIT: The image view's frame is {0, 0, 0, 0}, but it did show the image.
EDIT 2:
I tried the answer but the image is not circle. Here's what i did:
float height = [self tableView:tableView heightForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
[Helper circlizeImageView:cell.imageView cellHeihgt:height];
+ (void)circlizeImageView:(UIImageView *)imageView cellHeihgt:(float)cellHeight {
imageView.frame = CGRectMake(0, 0, cellHeight, cellHeight);
[Helper circlizeView:imageView];
}
+ (void)circlizeView:(UIView *)view {
view.layer.cornerRadius = view.frame.size.height / 2;
view.clipsToBounds = YES;
view.layer.masksToBounds = YES;
}

Answer 1

The code is all fine.
The only problem is with this line:
cell.imageView.layer.cornerRadius = cell.imageView.frame.size.height/2;
//CGRect rectTest = cell.imageView.frame;
//returns a rect of (0,0,0,0) & hence the cornerRadius being set is 0.
Try:
cell.imageView.layer.cornerRadius = 10; //or some fixed value
In retrospect, what you're trying to do will not get you to make the imageView circular because the default imageView is rectangular (the height is always more than the width) and so... setting a corner radius that is half of the height/width will not work.
It'll be better if you use a custom UITableViewCell and add a square framed imageView.
ANyways... Since the default imageView touches the top of the default UITableViewCell and ends at the bottom, you can get the height of the imageView by using the height of the row (in case you have dynamically sized cells)
So, something as simple as this:
cell.imageView.layer.cornerRadius = cell.frame.size.height/2;
But none of this looks good since the imageView is rectangularish and cells being of dynamic height will make it look like a poor design (the fixed radius looks best imho)

Answer 2

You have two options here:
1- Add the imageView as a subView to you cell.
2- Override layoutSubviews in a custom cell:
- (void)layoutSubviews {
[super layoutSubviews];
self.imageView.frame = CGRectMake(0,0,40,40);
}