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A couple of useful extensions that I found online for Downloading a remote image and setting a hex colour code in Swift
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extension UIImageView { | |
func downloadImageFrom(link link:String, contentMode: UIViewContentMode) { | |
NSURLSession.sharedSession().dataTaskWithURL( NSURL(string:link)!, completionHandler: { | |
(data, response, error) -> Void in | |
dispatch_async(dispatch_get_main_queue()) { | |
self.contentMode = contentMode | |
if let data = data { self.image = UIImage(data: data) } | |
} | |
}).resume() | |
} | |
} | |
extension UIColor { | |
convenience init(colorCode: String, alpha: Float = 1.0) { | |
//Nice little ammendment from Bionik if you have a copy/paste with the # | |
if colorCode.containsString("#") { colorCode.removeAtIndex(colorCode.startIndex) } | |
let scanner = NSScanner(string: colorCode) | |
var color: UInt32 = 0 | |
scanner.scanHexInt(&color) | |
let mask = 0x000000FF | |
let r = CGFloat(Float(Int(color >> 16) & mask)/255.0) | |
let g = CGFloat(Float(Int(color >> 8) & mask)/255.0) | |
let b = CGFloat(Float(Int(color) & mask)/255.0) | |
self.init(red: r, green: g, blue: b, alpha: CGFloat(alpha)) | |
} | |
} |
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The UIColor extension allowing the "#" sign, resulting to this: