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badgeswift

Badgeswift is a lightweight and customizable badge view for iOS written in Swift. It allows you to easily add badges to any view in your app, such as buttons, labels, or icons, to display important information or highlight certain actions.

Features

  • Simple and easy to use API
  • Supports adding badges to any view
  • Customizable badge appearance and position
  • Option to animate badge changes
  • Supports both text and image badges
  • Interactive badge tap handling
  • Compatible with iOS 10 and above

Installation

You can install Badgeswift using CocoaPods. Add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'Badgeswift'

Then, run the following command:

pod install

Usage

To use Badgeswift, start by importing the library:

import Badgeswift

Next, you can add a badge to any view by calling the addBadge method:

view.addBadge(text: "5", position: .topRight)

In this example, a badge with the text “5” is added to the top right corner of the view.

You can customize the badge appearance by creating a BadgeOptions object and passing it as a parameter to the addBadge method:

let options = BadgeOptions(backgroundColor: .red, textColor: .white, font: .boldSystemFont(ofSize: 12))
view.addBadge(text: "5", position: .topRight, options: options)

Here, the badge background color is set to red, text color to white, and font to bold system font with a size of 12.

Additional Configuration

Badgeswift provides additional configuration options to customize the badge behavior:

  • Badge tap handling: You can add tap gesture recognizer to the badge using the addTapGestureRecognizer method. This allows you to perform custom actions when the badge is tapped.
  • Badge animation: You can enable or disable badge animation using the animateBadgeChanges property. When enabled, the badge will animate when its value changes.
  • Badge removal: You can remove the badge from a view by calling the removeBadge method.

Conclusion

Badgeswift is a powerful and flexible solution for adding badges to your iOS app. With its simple API and extensive customization options, you can easily enhance your app’s user interface and provide important visual cues to your users.